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Re: a word in Lego instructions
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:28:47 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Ross Crawford wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Richie Dulin wrote:
> > In lugnet.general, Timothy Gould wrote:
> > > Thanks. It is rather interesting and I'm surprised it was monolingual. Given my
> > > understanding that the US and Canada share instructions I thought most North
> > > American booklets would include French as well.
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> > I suspect 'CLICK' could be regarded as onomatopoeic, and may bypass multiple
> > language requirements of some markets on that basis. (An exception that may also
> > cover other words such as 'CRASH' mentioned by DaveE).
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> However onomatopoeia is generally language specific anyway - how do those crazy
> frenchmen spell a word that sounds like 'CLICK'?
Good point. I wonder how a native french speaker would pronounce a word spelled
'CLICK'?
Cheers
Richie Dulin
CO Legeaux
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| (...) Just the same... we even derived an informatic jargon verb, "cliquer". "Click right mouse button" might be translated as "Cliquez sur le bouton de droite de la souris" ;o) Philo (16 years ago, 23-Jun-08, to lugnet.general)
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