Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet

Re:Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is takin... by felipemnoa on Friday July 27, 2018 @07:19PM (#17630279)

Which 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.

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Re:Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is takin... by monort on Saturday July 28, 2018 @06:23AM (#17632511)

Ancient 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

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Re:Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is takin... by andrepd on Friday July 27, 2018 @08:40PM (#17630749)

For 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)

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Re:Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is takin... by krylon on Saturday July 28, 2018 @03:07AM (#17632008)

In 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. :)

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Re:Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is takin... by mc32 on Friday July 27, 2018 @11:46PM (#17631403)

Isn't it vacancelle in French? Never heard fin de semaine... although most just say le weekend.

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Re:Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is takin... by briandear on Saturday July 28, 2018 @01:01AM (#17631633)

I 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.

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