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Acronyms after royal title - to translate or not to translate?
Thread poster: Nesrin
Nesrin
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Feb 23, 2007

I need your opinion here. I have a list of names of people attending a conference, one of whom is:
His Royal Highness The Duke of York KG KCVO ADC
Now I've already found out that KG KCVO ADC stand for KNIGHT, KNIGHT COMMANDER, AIDE DE CAMP. I have no problem (I think) coming up with an Arabic translation, but since the use of similarly short acronyms is out of the question, wouldn't the Arabic translation be ridiculously long? I feel the sensible thing would be to leave it out, but w... See more
I need your opinion here. I have a list of names of people attending a conference, one of whom is:
His Royal Highness The Duke of York KG KCVO ADC
Now I've already found out that KG KCVO ADC stand for KNIGHT, KNIGHT COMMANDER, AIDE DE CAMP. I have no problem (I think) coming up with an Arabic translation, but since the use of similarly short acronyms is out of the question, wouldn't the Arabic translation be ridiculously long? I feel the sensible thing would be to leave it out, but would that be acceptable?
ما رأيكم دام فضلكم



[Edited at 2007-02-23 22:54] ▲ Collapse
 
Ahmad Hassaballa
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Do it! Feb 24, 2007

Hello nesrin,

I'm with translating them. No need for keeping such acronyms, as Arabic reader doesn't like it in general.

Kind regards,

Ahmad
 
Iman Khaireddine
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Translate them Feb 24, 2007

I would translate them. If they were not meant to be mentioned, they would not have been written in the first place. And as you have pointed out, such acronyms do not exist in Arabic.

Regards
 
w2m14
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Translate those Acronyms Feb 24, 2007

You can translate them as
الحاصل على وسام (أو لقب) ....
 
ahmadwadan.com
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I adopt translation Feb 24, 2007

I agree with Imane.

The challenge is to come up with Arabic translation that does not seem ridiculous as you mentioned.

طويل العمر يطول عمره ويزيده...هاي هي

دي جملة تذكرتها لفؤاد المهندس ولا أتذكر ما بين النقاط لكني وجدتها تناسب السياق


الله يعينك

[Edited at 2007-02-24 08:48]
 
Ahmad Hassaballa
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طويل العمر Feb 24, 2007

Ahmad Wadan wrote:

I agree with Imane.

The challenge is to come up with Arabic translation that does not seem ridiculous as you mentioned.

طويل العمر يطول عمره ويزيده...هاي هي

دي جملة تذكرتها لفؤاد المهندس ولا أتذكر ما بين النقاط لكني وجدتها تناسب السياق


الله يعينك

[Edited at 2007-02-24 08:48]


طويل العمر يطول عمره ويزهزه عصره وينصره على مين يعاديه.. هاي هيء
 
Hebat-Allah El Ashmawy
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Translate them! Feb 24, 2007

Since those acronyms have no sense in arabic,I am also with translating them.
Good Luck!
Heba
 
Nesrin
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Thanks to all... Feb 24, 2007

... so I will translate them. But to those who misunderstood me, I didn't suggest leaving the acronyms in English or creating Arabic acronyms, the other option I was thinking of was to leave that part out altogether.
 


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