Comments | tongodeon: Translators who should be fired

tongodeon

Translators who should be fired

Jul 11, 2007 16:05

Vladimir Poutine

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Comments 7

ikkyu2 July 11 2007, 23:20:09 UTC

Nothing for Vladimir Putain, sadly.

loic July 11 2007, 23:25:45 UTC

But Putin would probably be the wrong transliteration from cyrilic to French. In French the "n" would be basically silent so you need to make it something like "Poutine" to make it right.

loic July 11 2007, 23:55:03 UTC

In fact "vladimir putin" gets 62,300 hits in french on Google while "vladimir poutine" gets 800,000 including the Wikipedia page.

mmcirvin July 12 2007, 02:09:05 UTC

That actually is the standard French transliteration.

tongodeon July 12 2007, 02:51:16 UTC

It's all romanji. Why do they have to transliterate anything? It's not like we call their president Neekolaa Sarkosee.

tongodeon July 12 2007, 02:51:54 UTC

Oops. Cyrillic is *not* Romanji. Never mind.

xiphias July 12 2007, 17:13:43 UTC

Here, have William Saffire's discussion on exactly this issue.

As always, when Saffire is talking about language, and NOT politics, it's interesting and probably worth reading.