[FR] French translations - TODO’s and open Q’s

[lucsurr]

This issue is intended to gather French translations’ todo’s and open questions.

I) tu or vous

We have to choose between 'tu' and 'vous' (i.e. between informal/familiar, and formal/polite way to address to the user)! Mixing both is really odd…

II) Choice of word(s)

• 'amour' for loves sounds odd in french… maybe 'cœur' (like 'coup de cœur')?
• 'lignes directrices' for guidelines… works, but maybe 'charte' would be better?
• how to translate (activity) feed? 'Fil (d’activités)'?
• legalese: 'mentions légales' is the canonical terminology, but a bit formal compared to legalese, could also use 'Blabla légal'? Or, more pedant, 'Logorrhée légale'?

[johnbaku]

@lucsurr I always use vous when speaking French... it's just the way I was brought up... didn't have any other choice! :-p BUT... everyone at work would make funny of me when I would address them as vous. So yeah, I don't know.

[rakvat]

@johnbaku in German I used "Du" instead of "Sie" which would be "tu" instead of "vous" in French.

[lucsurr]

Yep, tbh I would not mind either, just want to have one for sure, and update whole translation to use it 👅

Within a more “traditional” context I would use “vous” without hesitation - but FetLife has a bit of an offbeat tone, so “tu” might fit better in this case… 😉

[yianni3000]

hey @lucsurr ! 1. Regarding tu or vous, I have always preferred vous. I understand it is formal, but I always liked that approach. It is just a layer of respect between two people. I could be super old fashioned. 2. For guidelines, i liked lignes directrices. But of course, maybe i am wrong :/ 3. For legalese, I love love your suggestion of Blabla légal. Funny! 4. The "love" button was a tricky one. I decided with aimer as a verb. You are right, amour is off, but it is closer related to aimer. Maybe coeur could work as the "love counter" i.e 18 coeurs. 5. For activity feed, I had no solid idea as to what was correct :/

[reneklacan]

For Slovak translations I chose less conservative and more friendly addressing from those two options. But it every language there's different threshold...

[Wapdoowap]

As a pro translator, I'm often confronted with the "tu or vous" issue. Usually "vous" is preferred, and used much more often in contexts where other languages like German, Dutch (or Spanish I think) would use a more familiar "tu" form. I just changed the entire file with "vous" forms.

[Wapdoowap]

Nickname:

what are we going to use for this? To me "Pseudo" would work, shorter, or "Nom d'utilisateur" but it's longer and more formal.

[lucsurr]

Yeah, re tu/vous, also inclined to stick to “vous”, so let’s bust our “tu” usages 👅
@yianni3000 agree with your points, “activity feed” will go as “fil d’activité” then I guess…
@Wapdoowap For nickname, would also go with “pseudo”, short and commonly used.

@Wapdoowap you are working on french translation right now, right?

[johnbaku]

@lucsurr said:

Within a more “traditional” context I would use “vous” without hesitation - but FetLife has a bit of an offbeat tone, so “tu” might fit better in this case… 😉

And it makes me want to use "tu" for FetLife even if I use vous when I talk. But if you guys already have vous in place we can get a feel for vous and if it feels off and un-fetlife then we can switch to tu.

[Wapdoowap]

@lucsurr I am! I went through everything quickly once, but once we're decided on certain words, etc, I can certainly reread everything.

@johnbaku, honestly, I think using "tu" here would feel off. Websites tend to do that when they address children and teenagers, but not much past that. I understand wanting to come off as friendly, but I don't think the "tu" would work at all here...

[yianni3000]

@lucsurr @Wapdoowap @johnbaku Vous it is!

[johnbaku]

If everyone is good with "vous" I am good with vous!

[n0rev]

@Wapdoowap Not quite sure that "pseudo" would fit here.

The context where "nom d'utilisateur" is used is more as in "login name", "pseudo" would be more used for a "screen name" type of context.

In this case both are interchangable since it's the same thing for now. Maybe "Identifiant" could fit better considering you don't usually log yourself with a screen name ?

[n0rev]

I am also questioning the use of "mail" in french considering that generally the accept term is either "courriel" or "adresse courriel".

On a more general field, what "kind" of french should it be targeted to ? France or International or somewhere in between ? (I know some terms in France's french are generally not accepted as part of the french usage for us Québécois 😄)