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Was `rapporteur' his actual English language title, or is there a better translation? It seems to correspond to the sponsor or original author of a bill.

dangrossman 15y ago
"mascarade" is masquerade in English; this isn't a very good translation.
- hastur 15y ago
  Well, they did what they could. La Quadrature Du Net is a French site that also publishes in English. We should be glad that we could learn about this development.
  - Tharkun 15y ago
    They're a good bunch, and i'm sure they'd be happy if someone sent them a better translation. They're one of the most sensible groups of people fighting for freedom in europe, so please support them in any way you can.
- thisisabore 15y ago
  It has been corrected, if you see anything else wrong with the translation, you can edit it, it's a wiki…
sp332 15y ago
Yes, but only because English shamelessly ripped off the term from French. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rapporteur http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rapporteur
- FreakLegion 15y ago
  English partly developed out of French (specifically Anglo-Norman French) following the Norman invasion in 1066. Besides, it was French that shamelessly ripped off Vulgar Latin (re + portare, "to carry back")!
  - sp332 15y ago
    Sure, some of English is based on French, and there are a few words taken unmodified. But when it comes to legal terms, Norman French was used by lawyers in English-speaking countries for centuries. As a result, ideas and terms from French law are just taken wholesale by English-speaking legal systems (including grammar and syntax very foreign to English). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_French#Survivals_in_modern_legal_terminology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_French#Survivals_in_modern_...
    - FreakLegion 15y ago
      'S what I just said. From your link: "It [French] was used in the law courts of England, beginning with the Norman Conquest." If the average person habitually used legal terminology the way they use words like, say, "toilet," the Frenchness of those words would be completely inconspicuous.
- jerf 15y ago
  A more proper adjective for the way in which English "rips off" other languages would be aggressively, rather than shamelessly. "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." - http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Nicoll http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Nicoll
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dangrossman 15y ago

"mascarade" is masquerade in English; this isn't a very good translation.

hastur 15y ago
Well, they did what they could. La Quadrature Du Net is a French site that also publishes in English. We should be glad that we could learn about this development.
- Tharkun 15y ago
  They're a good bunch, and i'm sure they'd be happy if someone sent them a better translation. They're one of the most sensible groups of people fighting for freedom in europe, so please support them in any way you can.
thisisabore 15y ago
It has been corrected, if you see anything else wrong with the translation, you can edit it, it's a wiki…

sp332 15y ago

Yes, but only because English shamelessly ripped off the term from French. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rapporteur http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rapporteur

FreakLegion 15y ago
English partly developed out of French (specifically Anglo-Norman French) following the Norman invasion in 1066. Besides, it was French that shamelessly ripped off Vulgar Latin (re + portare, "to carry back")!
- sp332 15y ago
  Sure, some of English is based on French, and there are a few words taken unmodified. But when it comes to legal terms, Norman French was used by lawyers in English-speaking countries for centuries. As a result, ideas and terms from French law are just taken wholesale by English-speaking legal systems (including grammar and syntax very foreign to English). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_French#Survivals_in_modern_legal_terminology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_French#Survivals_in_modern_...
  - FreakLegion 15y ago
    'S what I just said. From your link: "It [French] was used in the law courts of England, beginning with the Norman Conquest." If the average person habitually used legal terminology the way they use words like, say, "toilet," the Frenchness of those words would be completely inconspicuous.
jerf 15y ago
A more proper adjective for the way in which English "rips off" other languages would be aggressively, rather than shamelessly. "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." - http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Nicoll http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Nicoll

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