Mar 21, 2002 22:43
22 yrs ago
English term
Austin Smith
Located in the downtown area is the Place Ville Marie, an innovative commercial
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English to French
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School Project
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Thierry LOTTE
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Florence Bremond
France
France
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France
Art of the French language
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En centre-ville est située la Place Ville-Marie, un projet d'école de commerce innovant.
"Place Ville-Marie" (with an uppercase P) is the name of the place and doesn't have to be translated.
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ALAIN COTE (X)
: La Place Ville-Marie n'est pas un projet d'école de commerce, c'est un centre commercial (centre d'achats au Québec).
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pardon j'ai cru que le commentaire (school project) était la suite de la phrase - oups !
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Au centre-ville se trouve la Place Ville-Marie,
- Le début de la phrase me semble mieux comme, pour que ça s'enchaîne mieux avec la suite.
- Je ne crois pas qu'il soit nécessaire de traduire "area" par quartier (la Place se trouve simplement dans le centre-ville).
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correction : me semble mieux comme CA
- Je ne crois pas qu'il soit nécessaire de traduire "area" par quartier (la Place se trouve simplement dans le centre-ville).
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correction : me semble mieux comme CA
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Située au centre-ville,...
Située au centre-ville, la Place Ville-Marie, un [centre] commerciale innovateur, [yadayada]...
We tend to make longer sentences in French than in English, so I'd chain this (partial) sentence with the next, as long as the sentence that follows builds on this one.
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First: as Alain Côté rightly pointed out, it should be \"commercial\", not \"commerciale\".
Second, to clarify the issue, the Place Ville Marie is a commercial centre including three distinct office buildings with an underground shopping center under the principal building and, below all that, underground parking. There are links, both automotive and pedestrian, to the main train station in Montreal and the Métro (the subway).
By \"centre commercial\", I mean \"a commercial centre\". It appears that in France, \"centre commercial\" refers to a shopping centre, which we call \"centre d\'achats\" in Canada.
So, depending on whether your teacher (I\'m assuming this is homework) is French (from France) or Canadian, you might not want to use \"centre commercial\" - though, for the life of me, I can\'t figure out a way to say \"commercial centre\", without mistranslating it, other than by calling it a \"centre commercial\": it isn\'t really a commercial complex.
We tend to make longer sentences in French than in English, so I'd chain this (partial) sentence with the next, as long as the sentence that follows builds on this one.
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First: as Alain Côté rightly pointed out, it should be \"commercial\", not \"commerciale\".
Second, to clarify the issue, the Place Ville Marie is a commercial centre including three distinct office buildings with an underground shopping center under the principal building and, below all that, underground parking. There are links, both automotive and pedestrian, to the main train station in Montreal and the Métro (the subway).
By \"centre commercial\", I mean \"a commercial centre\". It appears that in France, \"centre commercial\" refers to a shopping centre, which we call \"centre d\'achats\" in Canada.
So, depending on whether your teacher (I\'m assuming this is homework) is French (from France) or Canadian, you might not want to use \"centre commercial\" - though, for the life of me, I can\'t figure out a way to say \"commercial centre\", without mistranslating it, other than by calling it a \"centre commercial\": it isn\'t really a commercial complex.
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ALAIN COTE (X)
: commercial
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Merci pour la correction
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Germaine
: the Place Ville-Marie essentially is an office building, with exhibition halls and a little mall downstair... Only a tourist pub can call it "innovative" (!!) (how?)
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If you're from Vagreville, Alberta (or Walla Walla, Washington), the idea of putting a shopping centre underground might seem innovative? Maybe its the fact that it is built in the shape of a cross?
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Situe au centre-ville de Montreal, le complexe Place-Ville-Marie est.........
"Area" est absolument inutil en francais, dans ce contexte. "Centre-ville" est "downtown" en anglais.
Quant a "innovative", cela n'a rien a voir avec "Place-Ville-Marie".
Andre Dionne
Lingua Inc.
Quant a "innovative", cela n'a rien a voir avec "Place-Ville-Marie".
Andre Dionne
Lingua Inc.
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