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14:50 Mar 15, 2018

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French to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Government / Politics / prison administration

French term or phrase: incl. 1 B.F.

The text describes a prison for women in Quebec. There is a table listing the various buildings, population type, number of cells/beds, etc. In the "total no. of cells" column, some entries indicate the number of cells followed by "incl. 1 B.F."

What does B.F. stand for? Thx.

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incl. 1 BF

Sheila Wilson

Discussion entries: 9

Wyley Powell

Canada

ASKER

20:32 Mar 20

As it turns out, B.F. is indeed "barrier free" even though the text is in French. As for "incl.", one often sees "incluant" in Canadian French.

AllegroTrans

United Kingdom

Asker

10:45 Mar 16

Given that many official documents in Canada are bilingual, have you tried googling for prison-related forms to see if you can find the abbreviation on a bilingual form?

David Sirett

incl.

07:12 Mar 16

If the phrase is in French, how are you translating "incl."? (Given that the French for "including" would be "y compris".)

writeaway

Guessing

16:51 Mar 15

Could the F stand for Familiale?

philgoddard

United States

16:50 Mar 15

I wonder why, regardless of the number of cells, there is always only one BF.

Wyley Powell

Canada

ASKER

16:24 Mar 15

Sorry for any confusion. The phrase "incl. 1 B.F." is in French and needs to be translated into Eng. So, "barrier free" wouldn't work.

writeaway

So this is an English monolingual question?

15:47 Mar 15

And not Fr-En??

Alison MacG

United Kingdom

barrier-free?

15:44 Mar 15

I think it may be an English abbreviation, barrier-free, i.e. accessible.

•There are a total of 15,364 regular population (rated-capacity) cells within CSC institutions. Of those, CSC provides 428 barrier-free cells, of which 37 are transitional (i.e., health care cells, segregation cells). As such, 391 permanent barrier-free cells represent 2.5% of all accessible spaces across CSC, which is above the 2% requirement in the Federal Correctional Facilities Accommodation Guidelines for CSC as a whole. However, some individual institutions were above the 2% level of accessible cells, whereas others were below.
•Barrier-free cells are provided in maximum, medium, and minimum security institutions, women's institutions, multi-level institutions, healing lodgesFootnote 176 as well as in its RTCs.
http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/publications/005007-2017-eng.shtml

cellules à accès facile in the French version

writeaway

You live in Canada

15:29 Mar 15

Can't you phone them and ask what it stands for? I've done that here.
And/or please post the actual French text.

Answers

25 mins confidence:

incl. 1 BF

Explanation:
This seems logical in the context, but it's impossible to be sure. I see the English acronym BF (short for breastfeeding) is used in French sometimes as I just found this in a PDF and then promptly lost all trace of the link (sorry):
Allaitement maternel (BF)

You might need B.F. if it's American English.

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Found it! Try this link: https://www.google.es/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...

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