impact porteur/impact adherent (data processing)

English translation: Impact on carriers or subscribers

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French term or phrase:impact porteur/impact adherent
English translation:Impact on carriers or subscribers
Entered by: Yolanda Broad

06:18 Sep 29, 2000
French to English translations [PRO]
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French term or phrase: impact porteur/impact adherent (data processing)
Lors du traitement des transactions impactant un porteur ou un adhérent CETREL, on informe le module concerné en insérant une opération ou une opération d'attente dans la table opération correspondante.
- Les transactions Issuer et Domestique avec impact, engendrent toujours un et un seul impact porteur.
- Les transactions Acquirer et Domestique avec impact engendrent toujours un et un seul impact adhérent.
This porteur/adherent thing really has me stuck. Could someone take a couple of moments to try to explain what is going on here? Also could someone confirm the trans for "impact" and what about "inserer un operation"? Sorry to be such a pain, Bear.
BearTrans
Impact on Cetrel carriers or subscribers
Explanation:
This is one of the French "elision" things--I think French is trying to sound more "English", and the way it does that t is to write in a kind of telegraphic style, dropping prepositions, thus giving nouns the role of adjectives. English does this a lot, but not in the same collocations, so it becomes hard to recognize when it is happening in French. In this case, both *porteur* and *adhérent* are nouns, but being given a modifier role. The "sur" has been elided.

A quick search on the Web for "impact porteur" and "impact adhérent" turned up contexts leading me to this conclusion
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Yolanda Broad
United States
Local time: 20:05
Grading comment
In the end, I opted for "cardholder" - porteur and "member" adherent. It was a tough choice. Bear.
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naImpact on Cetrel carriers or subscribers
Yolanda Broad
naimpact on CETREL shareholders and members
Nikki Scott-Despaigne


  

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Impact on Cetrel carriers or subscribers


Explanation:
This is one of the French "elision" things--I think French is trying to sound more "English", and the way it does that t is to write in a kind of telegraphic style, dropping prepositions, thus giving nouns the role of adjectives. English does this a lot, but not in the same collocations, so it becomes hard to recognize when it is happening in French. In this case, both *porteur* and *adhérent* are nouns, but being given a modifier role. The "sur" has been elided.

A quick search on the Web for "impact porteur" and "impact adhérent" turned up contexts leading me to this conclusion

Yolanda Broad
United States
Local time: 20:05
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 1551
Grading comment
In the end, I opted for "cardholder" - porteur and "member" adherent. It was a tough choice. Bear.
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2 hrs
impact on CETREL shareholders and members


Explanation:
Yolanda has cleared up the explanation/grammar side of things. This type of usage is becoming increasinlgy common in France, in tehcnical go-ahead fields and in journalistic contexts.
until I got to the bit about "transactions", I did not consider that "porteur" could be anyhting else than "bearer, carrier". Is there a possibility that it could be shareholder related? If so, then members would work too.

If not, then I go along with "carrier" and "subscriber".

Nikki

Nikki Scott-Despaigne
Local time: 01:05
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 4638
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