[wp-polyglots] french translation

[Fairweb]

So ?

Do we agree on billet ?

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From: "Morgan Doocy" <morgan at doocy.net>
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Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: [wp-polyglots] french translation


> If it's any help, my Oxford-Hachette translates billet as "5. [Presse] 
> Short article." (The use of "post" to refer to a short article is 
> absent from the English portion of the dictionary, but I think it's a 
> relatively new use of the word.)
> 
> So I guess it would come down to whether or not we consider blog 
> entries to be short articles or just articles. It's a fine line, but 
> I'd say blog entries are, on the whole, more accurately described as 
> short articles, which I suppose is why we refer to them as posts in 
> English rather than articles. So my vote would be for billet.
> 
> Morgan
> 
> On Feb 17, 2005, at 11:51 PM, Fairweb wrote:
> 
> > Xavier, I've just joined the French translators team in Rosetta.
> > Can we finally agree on the word we use for "post" ?
> > Do we use "billet" or "article" ?
> > I know "billet" is the term used by keen bloggers. Article is mainly 
> > used in the current translation.
> > However I can see both words have been used. What shall we decide ?
> >
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