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[Raphaël Jakse]

Le 09/11/2013 18:26, Ali Çehreli a écrit :
> On 11/08/2013 11:43 PM, Raphaël Jakse wrote:
>
>  > My guideline is to translate everything (I hate
>  > speaking/reading about computer science with people who use
>  > three English works by French sentance) and give the English
>  > counterpart the first time to be able to find help in the
>  > English world.
>
> Like almost everything else about natural languages, translation is a
> fascinating topic.

I completely agree :-)

>
> Like you, I tried to use all Turkish words. I consulted many online
> programming dictionaries, asked individual words at Turkish forums,
> imported from other languages (e.g. "temsilci" for "delegate" from the
> C# world). The Turkish chapters have an adapted mini dictionary on the
> left-hand side that contains the English originals of the translations.
> Here is the template chapter:
>
>    http://ddili.org/ders/d/sablonlar.html
>
>  > The French translation for template is "modèle", I think I'll
>  > use this one.
>
> That was one of the funnier translations to Turkish: In order to avoid
> the foreign word "template", I used another foreign word which comes
> from another context (architectural drawing tools), "şablon", partly
> because it is already in use in the C++ world. I would have guessed that
> it was the transliteration of French "chablon" but "chablon" seems to be
> a dead word as I can't find it on online dictionaries. :) Google
> Translate translates it as "şablon" to Turkish but that's it. Anyway...

I didn't know this word. My dictionary ("Le Petit Larousse 2006") only 
says that is a Swiss word for "pochoir", which is a "stencil", which 
indeed can be considered as a template.

online Larousse gives another definition of the word: "un chablon" is a 
partially assembled movement (clockwork)

http://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/chablon/14404



>
>  > I had a really hard time translating "slice".
>
> Yup, that and many others... Fascinating topic... :)

Natural languages, translation and teaching are fascinating topic :-)

>
> Ali
>