Mathematicians solve 60-year-old problem

Re:Mathematicians solve 60-year-old problem by jstoiko on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @08:00AM (#9256026)

What does French have to do with this? In French, it would read: "m'a rappelé" = "reminded me".

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Re:Mathematicians solve 60-year-old problem by talideon on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @12:29PM (#9257624)

peterfirefly might be thinking of "se souvenir (de)".

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Re:Mathematicians solve 60-year-old problem by jstoiko on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @01:45PM (#9258153)

It wouldn't make sense in the context of the sentence.

"Le phénomène décrit me souvient..." would sound wrong in the ear of a native french speaker.

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Re:Mathematicians solve 60-year-old problem by talideon on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @05:56PM (#9259783)

Yup, but you need to take into account semantic confusion by a native speaker of one language with words in another language. In this case, peterfirefly might have been thinking of 'se souvenir (de)' and mkesper might have been translating 'se rappeler', but confused 'remind oneself' and 'remember', which is pretty easy to do and explains the mistranslation.

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Re:Mathematicians solve 60-year-old problem by peterfirefly on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @02:31AM (#9261569)

I don't know what actually goes through their heads but it is a mistake I have seen from French speakers before.

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