Category Archives: French

Seeking a French buzz

By admin | Published: 1 April 2010

The extent that other languages are permeated by English is in the news again, with an interesting article in yesterday’s Independent: “France tries to halt march of English”. The French government is keen to replace currently used anglicisms for 21st century phenomena with French-sounding words. This week saw the results of a competition open to [...]

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Could French economic happiness be infectious?

By admin | Published: 17 August 2009

The champagne corks weren’t quite popping but the French and German finance ministries were no doubt pleased with themselves last week. The news that both economies have emerged from recession was welcome, leading French economy minister Christine Lagarde to comment “These are obviously very positive numbers, which have surprised us and made us quite happy.” The [...]

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Why FIGS translation matters to business

By admin | Published: 14 August 2009

Look up figs in a dictionary and it will describe a fruit or the tree that produces them. In translation and localisation the word has a quite different meaning. FIGS translation is simply an acronym describing French, Italian, German and Spanish translation. This combination of languages opens any document or product up to a wide [...]

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