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Then explain to me why the French are using Go, To etc. instead of TB and GB like everyone else?
by chrisper 8y ago
Then explain to me why the French are using Go, To etc. instead of TB and GB like everyone else?
- rhapsodic 8y ago>Then explain to me why the French are using Go, To etc. instead of TB and GB like everyone else? Probably because some French law mandates it.
- ralusek 8y agoThey haven't gotten over the whole "lingua Franca" thing.
- coldtea 8y agoWell, it will take the British and Americans a long time to go over the same thing as well when the time comes...
- michaelmrose 8y agoGet back to me in 20 years and we'll see how that went.
- coldtea 8y agoWho said it has to be in 20 years? It took a couple of centuries for the French.
- jgh 8y agoGigaoctet isn't exactly a severe linguistic contortion though.
- moolcool 8y agoThey actively avoid loan words from English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Académie_française#Anglicisms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Académie_française#Anglicisms
- jgh 8y agoExcept weekend. They couldn't come up with a better word for that ;)
- enriquto 8y agoI use "fin de semaine" and people understands it perfectly.
- felipemnoa 8y agoWhich is almost the literal translation to weekend or "Week End". Pretty much the same phrase used in Spanish (fin de semana) and I suspect in other romance languages. P.D. Funnily enough, I looked up the translation for weekend in Latin and google gave me "volutpat vestibulum" and yet for Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian I got a similar "Fin de Semana" phrase. I wonder why only the latin translation looks completely different? Here are the Translations for weekend for each Romance language and Latin: French - fin de semaine Spanish - fin de semana Romanian - sfârșit de săptămână Portuguese - final de semana Italian - fine settimana Latin - volutpat vestibulum Notice how only Latin looks completely different. I wonder if google translate is broken.
- andrepd 8y agoFor Portuguese at least it's most likely translating word-for-word. The term is "fim-de-semana" ("fim" rather than "final", and hyphens signifying a compound word)
- mc32 8y agoIsn't it vacancelle in French? Never heard fin de semaine... although most just say le weekend.
- briandear 8y agoI have never heard vacancelle in France. But le week-end all the time. Even my kid’s school teachers used it. “Bon week-end!” Never heard fin de semaine even among my old country neighbors in Provence. My anecdote doesn’t make it fact of course. Most French people I know don’t pay any attention to the Academie Française.
- l9k 8y agoOctet is actually a more precise word as it implies there are 8 bits (or people, or things...) Byte only represents a group of bits.
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoTechnically true, and there were some weird-ass byte sizes in the early decades of computing, but the 8-bit byte has been universal for, I think, around 40 years now?