Author Topic: Hey Francophone Phreinds! (Read 5107 times)

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #25 on:** October 22, 2008, 10:10:58 PM »

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Is there a better English word for complimentarity? Going togetherness?

Compatibility?

Porter · « **Reply #26 on:** October 23, 2008, 07:08:05 AM »

You complete me ness?

/cheese overdose

Lyrhawn · « **Reply #27 on:** October 30, 2008, 08:41:21 PM »

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And is there an English word for "cause to emerge?"

We really need a causative in English.

Incite?

Annie Subjunctive · « **Reply #28 on:** October 30, 2008, 10:04:10 PM »

In this case they were research findings. I don't think you incite them so much as, well... cause them to emerge.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #29 on:** October 30, 2008, 10:11:42 PM »

Maybe they were provoked. Or evoked.

rivka · « **Reply #30 on:** October 31, 2008, 12:14:38 AM »

Trigger? Discover?

Annie Subjunctive · « **Reply #31 on:** November 07, 2008, 09:24:27 AM »

I'm always proud of myself when I have a translation breakthrough. You know when you know exactly what something means and you know there's got to be an English word that means that succinctly, but your head is so full of the cognates that you can't get to it? And then you finally find the word, and it's totally satisfying.

That just happened with mise en parallèle. I strained my brain muscles and finally came up with juxtaposition. Ah... it's such a pleasant relief.

pooka · « **Reply #32 on:** November 07, 2008, 01:02:19 PM »

Verily even unto the causing you to feel relief.

Annie Subjunctive · « **Reply #33 on:** November 07, 2008, 04:19:00 PM »

Yea, verily.

Annie Subjunctive · « **Reply #34 on:** November 13, 2008, 03:43:03 PM »

French I learned today:

« en amont » = upstream

« en aval » = downstream

My head is tired and I'm done translating and I'm going to go home now.