D french-speaking community

[Graham Fawcett]

On Saturday, 9 November 2013 at 10:44:06 UTC, Philippe Sigaud 
wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Raphaël Jakse
>> I had a really hard time translating "slice". I opted for 
>> "tranche". That
>> can sound weird but what "slice" really means, unless I am 
>> mistaken. If
>> somebody has a better translation, please suggest!
>>
>
> extrait?
>
> partie?

"Tranche" seems better to me, because the translation is so 
direct.

The term "slice" isn't any more semantically accurate in English 
than "tranche" would be in French. We aren't actually "taking a 
slice" of an array, after all: that would imply that the original 
array was now missing a piece. :)

As a weak francophone, if I saw "tranche" in a french D article, 
I would know exactly what it meant, while "partie" would seem 
more ambiguous IMHO.

Just my two cents (bien que nous n'avons plus des cents au 
Canada!),
Graham