cékoidon

English translation: whazat (written slang - UK)

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French term or phrase:	cékoidonc (written slang)
English translation:	whazat (written slang - UK)
Entered by:	Nikki Scott-Despaigne

00:03 Sep 22, 2001

French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering

French term or phrase: cékoidon

Submarines. A museum visit with staged explanations for children. Question and answer session for children. Here's the whole of the relevant extract, although the problematic term appears only in the very beginning.

"Recto : La propulsion, CEKOIDON ?

Verso : Les sous-marins classiques ont des moteurs électriques qui sont alimentés par des moteurs diesel en surface (le moteur diesel a besoin d'air pour fonctionner) et par des batteries en plongée.
Les sous-marins nucléaires utilisent une chaufferie nucléaire pour transformer l'eau en vapeur. Pour certains sous-marins, la vapeur alimente des turbines qui entraînent directement l'hélice. Pour d’autres sous-marins, ce sont des turboalternateurs qui transforment la vapeur en électricité ; celle-ci alimente les moteurs de propulsion."

Nikki Scott-Despaigne KudoZ activity Questions: 93 (none open) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 5463
Local time: 20:08

"c'est quoi donc"

Explanation:
As far as I know "cekoidon" is the name for a Radio game. As you can read from my answer, "cekoidon" is the contraction of "c'est quoi donc", "what is this".
Have a nice day

Selected response from:

Didier LONGUEVILLE
Local time: 20:08

Grading comment

Thanks for the info! I listen to France Info, France Inter (sometimes) and one or two music stations but had never heard of this one. Thanks to Mary too. The only hits I had for this one were for viruses - should have clicked then too, but didn't!
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5 +3

"c'est quoi donc"

Didier LONGUEVILLE

You're going to love this one ...

Mary Worby

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peer agreement (net): +3

"c'est quoi donc"

Explanation:
As far as I know "cekoidon" is the name for a Radio game. As you can read from my answer, "cekoidon" is the contraction of "c'est quoi donc", "what is this".
Have a nice day

Reference: http://www.chez.com/lhullier/radio/fiches/rtl.html
Reference: http://www.ifrance.com/fabricertl/radio.html

Didier LONGUEVILLE
Local time: 20:08
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in pair: 58

Grading comment

1 hr confidence:

You're going to love this one ...

Explanation:
OK - I did a Google search on this and most of the hits I found were questions:

Qmetric, cékoidon?

or just

cékoidon??

So I started thinking ... (which did hurt a bit) ... then I thought how I'd pronounce this thing ... and came up with:

c'est quoi donc ...

or 'whassat?'

Whatdya think?

Mary

Reference: http://www.google.co.uk
boredom!

Mary Worby
United Kingdom
Local time: 19:08
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in pair: 484

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