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Subject: Re: Computerese in French??
Message-ID: <4109@utai.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 17:02:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: utai.4109
Posted: Fri Oct  9 17:02:46 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Oct-87 11:56:16 EDT
References: <11060@orchid.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: gh@ai.UUCP (Graeme Hirst)
Distribution: ont
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Toronto
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Keywords: French, Computer
Summary: Ask the feds.

In article <11060@orchid.waterloo.edu> imprint@orchid.waterloo.edu (U of Waterloo Student Newspaper) writes:
>Does anyone out there know how to translate computer
>terminology into French? I need to know certain terms and
>jargon and words that simply are not in the French
>dictionary, being too new.

The Department of the Secretary of State, Official Languages and Translation
Section, Terminology Directorate, publishes a series of bilingual glossaries
to solve exactly this problem.	Their latest, for example, covers artificial
intelligence.

Their postal address is [... as above ...], Ottawa K1A 0M5.
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