[Sigia-l] Vive la France! Vive Napoleon!!

[Pixelslave]

Hi all,

For non english speakers, the use of terms such Usability or Findability is
not quite easy. In french we translate it by:

- Usability is usually translated by "Usabilité" or "Utilisabilité", which
is closer from a real french word and also nicer to spell.

- Findability could be translated by "trouvabilité" or "Trouvable" but is
not even close to a real word. No other translation known at this time.

- "AI" are basically the same words: "Architecte de l'Information" or
"Architecte Interactif"

Regarding the e-mail. It's going to be a very hard task to change the
mentality and the use of e-mail instead of "courriel"
(With a sound close to "mail" in french...)
They wanted also to ban the name "Marketing" and replace it with
"Mercatique" It never worked, 25 days later everybody still use
Marketing....

For the recods, our "great" Academie Francaise , very aware of the
technology and practice even produce a new name to replace the word "e-mail"
few years ago. It was "mèl" Wich is very close to the sound of "mail" but
with an accented letter, which is very nice to share with people from other
countries...and use...

LM


. Message original de Benjamin Speaks <benspeaks at prodigy.net>, le 18/07/03
19:37

> Well, the French finally banned the word "e-mail."
> 
> This article might be interesting for those of you who work with
> multinational and non-English centric audiences:
> 
> http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/07/18/france.email.ap/index.html
> 
> Benjamin Speaks
> User Experience Consultant
> bspeaks at speaksinc.net
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