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They should feel very guilty of confusing "numerique" and "digital" all the time. In French, 'numerique' generally means 'digital' and 'digital' only means rel
by ElBarto 8y ago
They should feel very guilty of confusing "numerique" and "digital" all the time.
In French, 'numerique' generally means 'digital' and 'digital' only means related to fingers (e.g. fingerprint is 'empreinte digitale').
- pilsetnieks 8y agoIn English "digital" also means related to fingers (because your hand has 5 digits.)
- jkepler 8y agoYes, in contrast to "manual" (related to the hand), but in regular usage most people think of digital as a reference to non-analog technologies, not a reference to their fingers.
- ernesth 8y agoUnfortunately, we don't have a good equivalent to digital in french: numérique means "relative to numbers (nombres)", digital means "relative to digits (chiffres)". I am in favor of using digital in french (we learn to count with fingers after all).