[Sigia-l] "Tags" en Francais

[Katral-Nada Hassan]

Hi all,

The word 'tag' is what is unofficially being used out there in French, however spelling and conjugation differs as such:

A Tag = un Tagg
To Tag = Tagger
Tagged = été taggée(s)

Cheers!

Katral-Nada Hassan
Information Architect

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From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of martin.fietkiewicz at gmail.com
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 11:45 PM
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Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] "Tags" en Francais

what would the verb be if you wanted to indicate to a user to "tag"
something... tagger?  tagguer?  taguer?  oy.


On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Matthew Hodgson <MHodgson at smsmt.com> wrote:

>
> You'll all have to wait for the Académie Française to decide on an
> official French word for 'tag' (they took over 10 years to decide and agree
> that the true and proper official French word for email should be
> "courriel")
>
> I would suggest that the word 'tag' is still the correct word to use,
> regardless of the language, in just the same way as any sane Frenchman still
> uses the word email.
>
> M
>
> ________________________________________
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> martin.fietkiewicz at gmail.com [martin.fietkiewicz at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, 4 April 2008 1:17 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] "Tags" en Francais
>
> there's also the good ole "categoriser", not to invoke the whole WordPress
> conundrum that they had distinguishing between tags and categories.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Jessica Enders <jessica at formulate.com.au>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > A good friend of mine who's French says he's not sure if there's an
> > exact equivalent for "tagged" but suggests "labeler/labeller",
> > "marquer" or "etiquetter".
> >
> > I hope this helps.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> >
> > Jessica Enders
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> >
> > On 04/04/2008, at 12:33 PM, Skot Nelson wrote:
> > > I'm building a bilingual site (English / French) and wonder if anybody
> > > has a common term for "tags" or "tagged" as in:
> > >
> > > "This entry is tagged..."
> > >
> > > A bit of googling hasn't really resolved it, and I know that a literal
> > > translation of the word is probably not accurate.
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