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They actively avoid loan words from English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Académie_française#Anglicisms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Académie_française#Anglic
by moolcool 8y ago
They 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.
- krylon 8y agoIn German it's Wochenende (Woche = week, Ende = end), which is literally the literal translation. ... de.wiktionary.org tells me it was adopted from English, too, after World War I. Huh. I did not know it was such a young word. :)
- monort 8y agoAncient Romans just didn't use weeks, so the translation is probably a modern one. The closest to a weekend is a market day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nundinae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nundinae
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- bunderbunder 8y agoKind of. TFA mentions this: > In some countries, such as France and Israel, special linguistic commissions have been working for decades to stem the English tide by creating new coinages of their own – to little avail, for the most part.
- briandear 8y agoThe Academy encourages the avoidance of loan words, but very few people in France actually listen to the Academy. Spend ten minutes in any French tech company and the Academy goes out the window.