[Sigia-l] Sigia-l Digest, Vol 43, Issue 4

[Belanger, Hugues]

Skot,
Here are a couple of thoughts regarding your questions. First, it is a relatively new term, and it is in English. It will take a while until the usage settles to one term, so your strategy should probably be to try to predict which one will win, and be willing to re-evaluate your decision down the road.

As far as the word tag is concerned, I would think that it would eventually be used as is in the French language. It is short and catchy. "Mot-clé" would also be a good one, but it becomes a bit cumbersome when you need to find the equivalent for the verb "to tag" ("Associer un mot-clé").

If you or someone you know can read French, here is a short article where both are used.
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/societe/2007/02/01/002-tagging.shtml

As for blog, your best bet would be to use "blogue" (although other terms can be used like "carnet Web" or "cybercarnet"). You can easily make it into a verb ("bloguer"), and Le Figaro seems to agree with it (see link below - article in French). Interesting to note that the site itself uses "blogs" for its blog section...

http://www.lefigaro.fr/high-tech/20070214.WWW000000406_un_correcteur_malin.html

I hope this helps,

Hugues Belanger
Enterprise Rent-A-Car


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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.

On a related topic, I welcome thoughts on the use of the term "bloc- notes" as officially prescribed, as opposed to just retaining "blog."
It seems like Bloc-Note hasn't really captured the public's imagination...
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