félino-technie OR félinotechnie - cat breeding / feline technology (perhaps) ( translation glossary) Cat breeding,Livestock / Animal Husbandry,Science

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French term or phrase:	félino-technie OR félinotechnie
English translation:	cat breeding / feline technology (perhaps)
Entered by:	Charlotte Allen

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11:39pm May 4, 2006

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Science - Livestock / Animal Husbandry / Cat breeding

French term or phrase: félino-technie OR félinotechnie

The whole first part of this sentence, but in particular 'félino-technie', has got me stumped.

"Le sauvage et l’étrange. La félino- technie est émaillée de deux rêves qui ont souvent hanté les éle- veurs : créer de nouvelles races qui répondent à la fascination du sauvage, et sélectionner des races originales à partir de mutations offertes par la nature."

Charlotte Allen

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cat breeding

Explanation:
It's not as fancy sounding as the French (you know the French), but that's what it looks like to me. I guess if you have long grey hair, wear tired woollen pullovers and baggy patched trousers that whiff more than a little of cat pee, you breed cats. If you wear clunky jewellery and a designer silk scarf or even a lab coat, you're into félinotechnie.

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Note added at 7 hrs (2006-05-05 06:48:34 GMT)
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A number of websites suggest that the Société Française de Félinotechnie might be the French Cat Fanciers' Association. When you think about some of the strange stuff pigeon fanciers breed, maybe "cat fancier" could well be worked in there somehow.

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Bourth
France

Note from asker to answerer

Many thanks! My instinct says this is probably more 'palatable' (sorry - that was the subject of the majority of my text - the palatability of kibble!!!!! glamourous, eh?) than 'feline technology' for an English readership.
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3 +4	cat breeding	Bourth
2 +2	felin-techno/felin technology	ntaylor

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felin-techno/felin technology

Explanation:
techno, here nothing to do with dancing cats to the techno music.

Sounds made up.

félin = feline catlike
felinity

ntaylor
United States
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French
PRO pts in category: 4

7 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

cat breeding

Explanation:
It's not as fancy sounding as the French (you know the French), but that's what it looks like to me. I guess if you have long grey hair, wear tired woollen pullovers and baggy patched trousers that whiff more than a little of cat pee, you breed cats. If you wear clunky jewellery and a designer silk scarf or even a lab coat, you're into félinotechnie.

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Note added at 7 hrs (2006-05-05 06:48:34 GMT)
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A number of websites suggest that the Société Française de Félinotechnie might be the French Cat Fanciers' Association. When you think about some of the strange stuff pigeon fanciers breed, maybe "cat fancier" could well be worked in there somehow.

Bourth
France
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 70

Note from asker to answerer

Notes to answerer

Asker: I really wanted to get 'cat fancier' into the text somewhere, but I just couldn't work it in. I used to know one - a cat show judge - she talked about cats as "a lovely grey boy" and "a wonderful tortie girl". It's a whole other world!

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French: félino-technie OR félinotechnie

English translation: cat breeding / feline technology (perhaps)