Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Apr 14, 2004 23:39
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French term
TaraSalman (X)
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pascie
Specializes in field
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see
Stands for See
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see
simply: (see next lesson)
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WebTC
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Dank U Well
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Tom Bishop
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cheers Tom
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sarahl (X)
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cheers Sarah
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It's an abbreviation of the Latin "confer", and we say "cf." in English too. It DOES mean "see" (cf. above), but only in respect of comparison (I've used "cf" here to draw your attention to the difference between what I say and what others have said, so you can compare our viewpoints). You would not say "Details can be found in the tables (Cf. page 8)", for instance. Not unless the information on page8 is somehow different to the information in the table referred to. If the table referred to is on page 8, you'd say "See page 8".
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Vicky Papaprodromou
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Charlie Bavington
: since 'cf' is quite common on Fr but less so in Eng, I'm in the habit of putting "see also" - kinda covers most possibilities :-)
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Prob. best, indeed. It's frightening when people (translators) with arts degrees don't know things like this though...
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Simon Charass
: Is always better with an explanation.
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David Sirett
: Except that in French it does often seem to be misused in situations where the author clearly means "refer to", with no notion of comparison.
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Bloody frogs!
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LJC (X)
: and it is not an acronym, it is an abbreviation
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Is not an abbreviation (e.g. "cont.") either, but a contraction (e.g. "cont'd") ;-).
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cmwilliams (X)
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