Post by: matt oz on June 04, 2003, 07:32:42 AM
If you could tell me how to say:
CEO
first-person shooter (my dictionary doesn't even have "first-person" in it)
cel-shaded
or if you know how to say any other video game terms, please let me know.
I really appreciate any help that anyone can give me.
Thanks!
Post by: Grey Ninja on June 04, 2003, 12:35:51 PM
Post by: Ian Sane on June 04, 2003, 02:44:54 PM
First-person shooter: le tireur de premier-personne
Cel-shaded: cel-a ombragé
And translated back we get:
the gunner of first-nobody
that shaded
Man I love the gunner of first-nobody games.
I think with terms like these you would use the English word. Sort of like how we'll use French terms like h'ors deveures (is that spelled right?) in the English language. Of course since this is for school you could probably use literal translations and your likely-doesn't-play-games teacher won't know exactly what it's supposed to be. I would use abbreviations and English myself.
Post by: Termin8Anakin on June 04, 2003, 05:50:02 PM
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Post by: matt oz on June 08, 2003, 02:50:06 PM
I ended up not using the word "cel-shaded". Instead of first-person shooter, I said "shooting game" in French, which (hopefully) translated to "un jeu de fusillade".
and then for CEO, I forgot what it even meant in English, and used "le directeur d'exploitation en chef" which is chief director of operations or something like that. Which I just realized would probably be the COO. oopsie.
Anyway, in hindsight, I should've picked a different topic. If the project were assigned later, I would've done the French Open. There's a few tennis players in my class, and it would've gotten a better reaction than all the blank stares I got presenting information about Ubi Soft and Infogrames. And only one person in the class ever heard of Rayman before. Know your audience. That's what I learned.
Oh, and by the way, Babelfish is seriously the worst piece of crap ever programmed. Teachers say they can tell when people use it to write papers and stuff, and it's no wonder, since it'll translate things so literally that it loses all coherence.
Post by: PIAC on June 08, 2003, 05:18:14 PM
, but you cant really program something to convert grammer, would be too hard
Post by: Grey Ninja on June 08, 2003, 07:46:09 PM
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Originally posted by: matt oz
Oh, and by the way, Babelfish is seriously the worst piece of crap ever programmed. Teachers say they can tell when people use it to write papers and stuff, and it's no wonder, since it'll translate things so literally that it loses all coherence.
Heh. I remember my last year of French class in Grade 12. Most of our class time was spent in the computer lab with the teacher getting us to translate a story into english using babelfish.
Our teacher was great though. He was a coke addict, and one of the laziest teachers ever. We all challenged the French 12 final exam, and everyone in the class passed, except for one girl. (He didn't like her). When we came out of high school, it says in our transcripts that we all finished French in high school, yet everyone in his class knows about 20 words, not including colors and numbers. I LOVED that class, as I hate the French language, and had no interest in learning it other than to put it on my transcript and resume.
Post by: aoi tsuki on June 08, 2003, 08:05:03 PM
All i remember of my French teacher was him yelling and cursing at us to talk in French, and talking constantly about his boyfriend.
Post by: PIAC on June 08, 2003, 08:09:03 PM
hooray for highschool, i can speak more dutch which im half assedly teaching my selfhoi! hoe gaat het? goed? keej dankje doei
Post by: Grey Ninja on June 08, 2003, 08:30:31 PM
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Originally posted by: aoi tsuki
By coke, do you mean the drink or the drug? i'm thinking the latter, given the lack of capitilization.
All i remember of my French teacher was him yelling and cursing at us to talk in French, and talking constantly about his boyfriend.
Yeah, sounds like a French teacher.
And by coke, I meant cocaine. It was common knowledge among the students of the school, although the administration hadn't gotten word somehow. We all liked him, and he did his best to make sure that he stayed in our good books, so I guess that's why. Last I heard of him, he had taken a leave of absence to teach in Korea or something, and hadn't returned. The common joke about that is that he got stuffed into a garbage bag and dumped into the bay after a drug deal gone bad. Nobody really knows what happened to him though.
Post by: nitsu niflheim on June 09, 2003, 03:30:38 PM
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Our teacher was great though. He was a coke addict, and one of the laziest teachers ever. We all challenged the French 12 final exam, and everyone in the class passed, except for one girl. (He didn't like her). When we came out of high school, it says in our transcripts that we all finished French in high school, yet everyone in his class knows about 20 words, not including colors and numbers. I LOVED that class, as I hate the French language, and had no interest in learning it other than to put it on my transcript and resume.
I got straight A's in Spanish but I know jack now that I am out of school.
Post by: Matt on June 13, 2003, 01:29:46 PM
So translate...
First
Person
Shooter
Chief
Executive
Officer
Not sure about cel-shaded.
