How a French scholar was treated at US airport

Re:How a French scholar was treated at US airport by masklinn on Monday February 27, 2017 @07:14AM (#13743653)

> The actual translation is: "A female police officer shouts at a woman whose 3-year-old is running all over the place"

"Berates" feels much closer than "shouts at", "engueuler" is not just general shouting there's a strong component of scolding to it.

Also "policewoman" if you want to carry gender across the translation, but I'd say "police officer" is just fine, french requires gendering, english does not.

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Re:How a French scholar was treated at US airport by d--b on Monday February 27, 2017 @07:51AM (#13743810)

I am not that good in English so for me shouts at was good enough ;)

Gender is important when we talk about "beating" people though.

I was reading it in English when I read that line and thought that didn't seem right. I mean, that would have been the title of the article.

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Re:How a French scholar was treated at US airport by trmsw on Monday February 27, 2017 @07:59AM (#13743843)

I think "berate" is unnecessary: in the context the type of shouting is completely clear, and "engueuler" is used much more commonly than "berate" so IMO using it would be to change the tone without improving the meaning.

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