Jan 3, 2023 19:33
1 yr ago
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French term
éconumérique
Not for points
French to English
Other
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
As in:
Si ce courriel ne mérite pas d'être conservé, faites un geste éconumérique : supprimez-le !
Thank you.
(FRFR>UKEN)
Si ce courriel ne mérite pas d'être conservé, faites un geste éconumérique : supprimez-le !
Thank you.
(FRFR>UKEN)
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +3 | [be digitally] eco-friendly |
liz askew
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| 4 +6 | The environmentally-smart thing |
Andrew Bramhall
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| 4 +2 | eco(-)digital |
Adrian MM.
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Proposed translations
+3
3 hrs
Selected
[be digitally] eco-friendly
https://cosmic.org.uk/news/how-be-digitally-eco-friendly
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Note added at 3 heures (2023-01-03 23:28:58 GMT)
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How to be Digitally Eco-Friendly
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Note added at 3 heures (2023-01-03 23:28:58 GMT)
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How to be Digitally Eco-Friendly
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Tony M
19 mins
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| agree |
AllegroTrans
: I fail to see (AMM) how this is ambiguous
12 hrs
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| agree |
Carol Gullidge
17 hrs
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| neutral |
Adrian MM.
: An ambiguous answer: digitally eco-friendly or just eco-friendly.
1 day 18 hrs
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+2
1 hr
Adrian MM.
Austria
Austria
Native in English
Austria
Retd.T&I, Barrister & Austro-Advokat
Native in: English (Variants: Scottish, British) 
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, French to English, and 5 more.
Related KudoZ points
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12
eco(-)digital
It would be helpful and useful if references and tentative answers were kept out of discussion entries and posted so proper swipes can be taken at them.
Example sentence:
Going eco digital means that you are committed to an environmentally conscious way of working and are actively going towards goals that will help the fight against climate change, such as reducing your company's carbon footprint.
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Carol Gullidge
: Sounds fine to me! Probably better than biodigital, which I had been considering!
57 mins
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Thanks and merci, Carol.
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| neutral |
AllegroTrans
: Your "explanation" is disingenuous and your suggested answer, whilst literal, doesn't really cut the mustard
1 hr
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The translation, though is accurate as closest out of all the answers to the source text. That apart, the discussion entries feature is not supposed to be misused for diffident answers.
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liz askew
: I don't think this works outside the marketing context.
2 hrs
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Please read the example sentence and stop 'squinnying'.
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Daryo
: that's exactly what the ST says. Any new term starts as a "new, not yet widely used" // that's NOT a reason to recycle "old terms".
1 day 6 hrs
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Hvalo lepa or lego, merci and thanks, Daryo.
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+6
3 hrs
Andrew Bramhall
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
United Kingdom
Flair and accuracy tailored to your text
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, German to English
Related KudoZ points
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8
The environmentally-smart thing
If the email is not worth keeping, do the environmentally- smart thing and delete it!
Unfortunately the woefully inept literal translation doesn't even begin to do the question justice, and should be avoided at all costs.
Unfortunately the woefully inept literal translation doesn't even begin to do the question justice, and should be avoided at all costs.
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
liz askew
29 mins
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Thank you!
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| agree |
Tony M
57 mins
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Thank you!
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| agree |
Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
1 hr
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Thank you!
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| agree |
philgoddard
: But no hyphen, because environmentally is an adverb.
4 hrs
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Yep, thanks;
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| agree |
AllegroTrans
13 hrs
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Thank you!
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| agree |
Anastasia Kalantzi
13 hrs
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Thank you!
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| agree |
Cyril Tollari
21 hrs
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Thank you!
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| disagree |
Daryo
: you can't simply ignore the "digital" bit - which happens to be THE distinctive element of this term!
1 day 4 hrs
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I beg to differ;
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Reference comments
3 hrs
Reference:
see
Can Deleting Emails be Eco-Friendly? Here's What We Know
News18 ·
https://www.news18.com › news › tech › can-...
12 Dec 2021 — Can Deleting Emails be Eco-Friendly? Here's What We Know ... Deleting emails also leads to energy consumption. Given that more than 280 billion ...
News18 ·
https://www.news18.com › news › tech › can-...
12 Dec 2021 — Can Deleting Emails be Eco-Friendly? Here's What We Know ... Deleting emails also leads to energy consumption. Given that more than 280 billion ...
Peer comments on this reference comment:
| agree |
Tony M
: Yes, much has been said on the environmental costs of keeping stuff stored unnecessarily on these vast server facilities.
21 mins
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Discussion
There's also a rather cumbersome foreign coinage, 'digi-ecology' ...
In LET’S CLEAN THE ENVIRONMENT, Braco Koren enables the viewer to clean the environment polluted by images generated by the screen and thus perform an act of ‘digi-ecology’.
http://www2.arnes.si/~ljskuc2/2012/digital transpositions/in...
and the potentially highly confusing and equally uncommon 'digitally environmental'.
The only problem is that most people won't have thought about the environmental cost of sending, receiving and storing emails, so it might need an extra sentence of explanation. "Did you know that storing one email emits X amount of carbon a year?" or whatever.