Re: uneditable [OT]
Re: uneditable [OT]
- Subject: Re: uneditable [OT]
- From: "koenig.yvan" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 19:04:51 +0200
Le 02/05/2013 à 18:45, Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden> a écrit :
> On 5/2/13 8:34 AM, "Axel Luttgens" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> In fact, it is a matter of how words tend to be abbreviated in a language.
> For
>> example, how about "appli" in English?
>
> It sounds French! In English, that is. (In French, it provides a second
> syllable, which can now be stressed. That's probably what makes it more
> comfortable for French speakers, where the last syllable of multisyllabic
> words are always stressed, so it can participate in the flow of the
> language, while "app" must sound abrupt and crude. Of course there are
> monosyllabic words, including some nouns, in French, but fewer.) In English,
> "appli", if pronounced as in French, would sound fancy or prissy, and
> wouldn't be appropriate as an abbreviation of application, since it differs
> from how we pronounce the "i" in the full word. And you could never, ever,
> end the word in the short "i" sound - it just sounds all wrong; I don't
> think there is any word in English that ends in a short "i" - you need a
> following consonant to have that sound. You'd have to stress the first
> syllable ("app") in English, and still pronounce "li" as "lee" - it just
> doesn't sound like anything you'd use as an abbreviation for "application".
> "App",in English, may sound like it's trying to be trendy, and lazy, to
> old-fashioned ears, but is not offensive as in French. It's effective, you
> get used to it and voilà - there it is! A word.
>
>
> --
> Paul Berkowitz
Hello Paul
I agree that "app" is a good choice in English but what need to use it in localized resources when there is already a French defined abbreviation : "appli." ?
I never complain against "iTunes" or "appStore" which have no French counterparts but I feel free to refuse pollution based only upon the financial power of an american company. With this kind of "imperialism", don't be surprised when a French minister tell to an american company : you are not allowed to buy 75% of Daily Motion.
I don't forget that the USA helped us during the late world war but I feel that it's time to say "too much is too much".
If American companies don't take care to that, we will soon read and ear "U.S. go home exactly as we did in the fifty's"
KOENIG Yvan (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 2 mai 2013 19:03:40
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