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Speaking of string (tong) was another funny thing in class when learning the craft. I share your sadness, the difference in orthography makes it already very c

by gwervc 3y ago

Speaking of string (tong) was another funny thing in class when learning the craft. I share your sadness, the difference in orthography makes it already very clear it's a different word.

mablopoule 3y ago
For 'string', it's funny how desensitized you get the the word until you talk to a colleague and ask him "Mais du coup t'as un string ?", and realized you asked him in public if he had a tong. Or when you try to debug something while a little tired, and mindlessly google 'string' without any other search term, only to be surprised at only having underwear-related results.
- ttoinou 3y ago
  Weird, in french I always used feminine for character string ("T'as une string ?")
  - jiehong 3y ago
    Yep, same: masculine for the underwear and feminine for the "chaine de caractères". Source: https://fr.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/string https://fr.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/string
    - mablopoule 3y ago
      Well I didn't knew that, thanks for the info! It's a bit like "espace" which is feminine when talking about typography. Or "covid", but only because I'm too stubborn to accept to say "La covid".
      - makapuf 3y ago
        OK but definitely, always LE wifi. Not la wifi. Please. https://www.lawifi.fr/ https://www.lawifi.fr/
  - 082349872349872 3y ago
    I thought it would be une chaine but string, as franglais, would be le string ?
- 082349872349872 3y ago
  on the other hand, having misread your nick as « ma belle poule » I was inspired to google « belle poule » only to be surprised by a bunch of images of a sailing ship...
  - mablopoule 3y ago
    You should try to google "Poule Soie", they are gorgeous beast :) The nickname is a play on my family name ("Monchablon"), that was wrongly written on the first draft of my work contract (as "Mablochon"), which only needed a bit of a chicken-obsessed CTO to become "Mablopoule". One handy habit I got from that CTO is to keep a folder of images of poultry to use as test images when coding/debugging an image-related form.
    - 082349872349872 3y ago
      Looks tempting: « La Poule Soie, avec sa silhouette toute ronde, est une excellent poule de compagnie. » Unfortunately I imagine they're difficult to keep in urban environments; maybe some HN entrepreneurial type ought to start a "Chickens As A Service" site so those who don't have the facilities to keep poultry at home could rent them by the hour? *en frappant à la porte d'une fête à 3h00* — « Bonsoir, c'est la police ; vos voisins nous ont appelés ... » — « Eh bien, allez à eux alors. Ici, on a commandé des poules, pas des flics »
- WirelessGigabit 3y ago
  I've had weird looks from people when I was talking about a dongle. I meant the Logitech Unify one. They were thinking of something else.

by gwervc 3y ago

Speaking of string (tong) was another funny thing in class when learning the craft. I share your sadness, the difference in orthography makes it already very clear it's a different word.

mablopoule 3y ago

For 'string', it's funny how desensitized you get the the word until you talk to a colleague and ask him "Mais du coup t'as un string ?", and realized you asked him in public if he had a tong. Or when you try to debug something while a little tired, and mindlessly google 'string' without any other search term, only to be surprised at only having underwear-related results.

ttoinou 3y ago
Weird, in french I always used feminine for character string ("T'as une string ?")
- jiehong 3y ago
  Yep, same: masculine for the underwear and feminine for the "chaine de caractères". Source: https://fr.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/string https://fr.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/string
  - mablopoule 3y ago
    Well I didn't knew that, thanks for the info! It's a bit like "espace" which is feminine when talking about typography. Or "covid", but only because I'm too stubborn to accept to say "La covid".
    - makapuf 3y ago
      OK but definitely, always LE wifi. Not la wifi. Please. https://www.lawifi.fr/ https://www.lawifi.fr/
- 082349872349872 3y ago
  I thought it would be une chaine but string, as franglais, would be le string ?
082349872349872 3y ago
on the other hand, having misread your nick as « ma belle poule » I was inspired to google « belle poule » only to be surprised by a bunch of images of a sailing ship...
- mablopoule 3y ago
  You should try to google "Poule Soie", they are gorgeous beast :) The nickname is a play on my family name ("Monchablon"), that was wrongly written on the first draft of my work contract (as "Mablochon"), which only needed a bit of a chicken-obsessed CTO to become "Mablopoule". One handy habit I got from that CTO is to keep a folder of images of poultry to use as test images when coding/debugging an image-related form.
  - 082349872349872 3y ago
    Looks tempting: « La Poule Soie, avec sa silhouette toute ronde, est une excellent poule de compagnie. » Unfortunately I imagine they're difficult to keep in urban environments; maybe some HN entrepreneurial type ought to start a "Chickens As A Service" site so those who don't have the facilities to keep poultry at home could rent them by the hour? *en frappant à la porte d'une fête à 3h00* — « Bonsoir, c'est la police ; vos voisins nous ont appelés ... » — « Eh bien, allez à eux alors. Ici, on a commandé des poules, pas des flics »
WirelessGigabit 3y ago
I've had weird looks from people when I was talking about a dongle. I meant the Logitech Unify one. They were thinking of something else.