Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
mordus
English translation:
hooked
Added to glossary by
Catharine Cellier-Smart
Jun 10, 2015 07:28
9 yrs ago
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French term
mordus
French to English
Marketing
Tourism & Travel
Fishing cruise
This is for the website of a catamaran cruise company. They offer a variety of cruises off NW Madagascar tailored to the client, and this particular cruise is for deep-sea anglers. I'd like to keep the 'mordu' word play if possible, but I've drawn a blank so far in how to do this.
Quotation marks are theirs, not mine.
Target is preferably British English.
"Pour les « mordus » un guide et un bateau de pêche équipé, peuvent accompagner votre voilier et vous permettre chaque jour de vous adonner à votre passion sans changer le programme de ceux qui restent à bord profiter du farniente".
Quotation marks are theirs, not mine.
Target is preferably British English.
"Pour les « mordus » un guide et un bateau de pêche équipé, peuvent accompagner votre voilier et vous permettre chaque jour de vous adonner à votre passion sans changer le programme de ceux qui restent à bord profiter du farniente".
Proposed translations
(English)
3 +8 | hooked |
Andrew Havercroft (X)
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3 +10 | those who are hooked |
Tony M
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3 | bitten |
DLyons
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3 | the hardcore ones |
Daryo
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Proposed translations
+8
3 mins
Selected
hooked
Something along the lines of "hooked on angling" perhaps?
Peer comment(s):
agree |
Victoria Britten
4 mins
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agree |
Nikki Scott-Despaigne
: It's nice when a word play can be found without losing anything of the original. Bravo!
1 hr
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agree |
writeaway
1 hr
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agree |
Sheri P
2 hrs
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agree |
Yvonne Gallagher
2 hrs
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agree |
Wendy Streitparth
3 hrs
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agree |
Jennifer White
3 hrs
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agree |
Verginia Ophof
4 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you!"
+10
3 mins
those who are hooked
I think 'hooked' could work quite well here, maintaining a similar word play. However, I do think the sentence would need to be restructured somewhat to fit it in smoothly.
Note from asker:
Thanks Tony, your answer was eminently suitable too. |
Peer comment(s):
agree |
Victoria Britten
4 mins
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Thanks, Victoria!
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agree |
AllegroTrans
1 hr
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Thanks, C!
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agree |
Nikki Scott-Despaigne
: Yes, nice find. I suppose you fished around a bit before pulling this one.
1 hr
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Thanks, Nikki! Groan... I was waiting with baited breath for that one, and swallowed it hook, line, and sinker.
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neutral |
writeaway
: agree with this. will change it to agree once the same answer that came in at the same time gets the same number of agrees. fair's fair.
1 hr
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agree |
Sheri P
2 hrs
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Thanks, Sheri!
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agree |
Yvonne Gallagher
2 hrs
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Thanks, Gallagy!
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agree |
Daryo
: I don't think that any pun was intended in the ST - not a reason not to add one ...
2 hrs
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Merci ! Oh yes, I feel SURE it was, not least because of the use of « ».
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agree |
Wendy Streitparth
3 hrs
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Thanks, Wendy!
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agree |
Verginia Ophof
4 hrs
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Thanks, Verginia!
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agree |
philgoddard
7 hrs
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Thanks, Phil!
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agree |
Susan Monnereau
23 hrs
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Thanks, Susan!
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1 hr
bitten
Why not just "(those who are) bitten"? It's used of both fish and people - the fish aren't biting today, he's been bitten by the travel bug.
Peer comment(s):
neutral |
Tony M
: 'bite' yes for the fish and 'bitten' for the anglers — but somehow the link between the two seems weaker; would have been nice if it had been "the biter bit"
4 mins
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Thanks Tony.
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2 hrs
French term (edited):
les mordus
the hardcore ones
the dedicated [anglers]
the passionate
...
the passionate
...
Peer comment(s):
neutral |
Tony M
: 'hardcore porn' is common; 'hardcore angling' I think less so. One might equally say 'diehard', but that's hardly marketing language for a cruise! But in any case, shame to lose the gentle pun.
8 mins
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you can't stop people from being obsessed with only one of the possible meanings - with the right/wrong mindset everything is open to various "interpretations"// "Diehard" is better // "les mordus de " is hardly marketing for nice and gentle OAPs ...
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neutral |
writeaway
: misses the play on words completely. amongst other probs
1 hr
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French are not so keen on puns, well maybe with the exception of "Le Canard Enchainé"
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neutral |
Jennifer White
: not in this context. Has other connotations.
1 hr
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yes, sure - especially for hardcore puritans ...
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Discussion
Tails is Andrew
What I usually do in this sort of situation is award just one point, as a token of appreciation, but it's not big enough to make the 'other' person feel they've lost out.
All I know is that when I submitted my answer and the page was refreshed, no other answer appeared at that point; I was quite surprised to see the other answer had appeared when I refreshed the page again later.
All just goes to show that the approximate timings shown should not really be used as the basis of any kind of linguistic decisions ;-)
Anyway what really counts is the time that each answer hit their send key and the one with the faster email provider could easily overcome being slightly later at sending.