Re:What they don’t tell you when you translate your app
by franky47 on Friday September 10, 2021 @04:04AM
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While I agree that we (fellow Frenchman here) tend to overtranslate, some of our portmanteaus are kind of clever.
My personal favourite is illectronisme, a combination of illettrisme (illiteracy) and électronique (electronic), to refer to people who are not good with computers.
Re:What they don’t tell you when you translate your app
by zapzupnz on Friday September 10, 2021 @07:22AM
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My favourite is autof = selfie. It’s auto-photo, but if you pronounce it, it’s photo said backwards — because you use the hold the camera backwards or use the front-facing camera.
My personal favourite is illectronisme, a combination of illettrisme (illiteracy) and électronique (electronic), to refer to people who are not good with computers.