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English translation: Pay telephone

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French term or phrase:	téléboutique/taxiphone
English translation:	Pay telephone
Entered by:	dwinters

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14:04 Jul 1, 2008

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French term or phrase: téléboutique/taxiphone

Hi,

I am doing a translation about the telecoms systems in callshops. The original French document refers to "téléboutiques", "taxiphones" and "callshops". Am I right in thinking that these all refer to the same thing - "callshops" in English. Or are they different?

Any advice would be most welcome.

Many thanks : )

Georgia Ford KudoZ activity Questions: 70 (none open) (1 without valid answers) (4 closed without grading) Answers: 24 United Kingdom
Local time: 12:38

Pay telephone

Explanation:
While these are generally shops, there are a whole variety of terms for them. Pay telephone is the standard translation in American English, despite this referring normally to a phone booth, and not the shop usually designated by a taxiphone. I might lean toward public call office or something like that, but the web reference I listed, from the EU terminology folks, gives a bunch of other variants that may fit your context better.

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dwinters
Local time: 04:38

Grading comment

Thanks for your help on this one - I went with callshop in the end! : )
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

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Pay telephone

dwinters

teleshop / pay telephone

Cristina intern

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3 mins confidence:

teleshop / pay telephone

Explanation:
"... Ticket d'accès au cabine de téléboutique et de taxiphone / Ticket for accessing a teleshop and pay telephone booth ..."
www.wipo.int/ipdl/en/hague/key.jsp?KEY=DM/063685

Cristina intern
Germany
Local time: 13:38
Native speaker of:

Italian

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Asker: Hi Cristina, I didn't use either your answers nor dwinters' answer in my translation but I found the text that dwinters wrote and his link was very useful. That is why I awarded him the points - sorry!

8 mins confidence:

Pay telephone

Language variant: Public Call Office, Public Call box, Coin telephone, ...

Explanation:
While these are generally shops, there are a whole variety of terms for them. Pay telephone is the standard translation in American English, despite this referring normally to a phone booth, and not the shop usually designated by a taxiphone. I might lean toward public call office or something like that, but the web reference I listed, from the EU terminology folks, gives a bunch of other variants that may fit your context better.

Reference: http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/FindTermsByLilId.do?lilId=165...

dwinters
Local time: 04:38
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PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Thanks for your help on this one - I went with callshop in the end! : )

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Jul 22, 2008 - Changes made by dwinters:
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