No clue what that is either. I'm a member of the Anti Beer League anyway. Never understood how people could drink that piss-looking liquid (other than the fact it's dirt cheap, which is why many young students drink it I suppose)...
Not the same thing, as it's an acronym, but I always thought "OVNI" had a better sound and feel than the very American military-spec "UFO"
Alas you see more and more 'UFO' rearing its ugly head in France nowadays, under US/Hollywood influence... I suppose it's "un UFO" (and not "une UFO"). Go figure!
No clue what that is either. I'm a member of the Anti Beer League anyway. Never understood how people could drink that piss-looking liquid (other than the fact it's dirt cheap, which is why many young students drink it I suppose)...
Not really a beer. A non-alcoholic soft drink made with salsepareille.
That's called a smartphone (some kind of pocket computer) because no French company was the first to produce it en masse.
So we can't claim any French name for it. That's the way it goes.
I might add that the problem with the French is they've always despised consumer electronics.
Smartphones are meaningless gadgets to them and they don't care.
They like grand scale industrial projects instead. Stuff like Thales, embedded systems to larger processes like designing trains and airplanes and such things.
I find it to be a strategic or communication mistake too, because the general public mainly sees the little smartphones in their pockets.
So many are clueless about technology made in France.
By the way, how do you guys in Québec call... this?
On appelle ça un cell. from téléphone cellulaire, whether it's smart or not it's called the same thing. On TV they often say téléphone intelligent, but in real life ''cell''
In France the full name is "téléphone portable", often shortened as "portable" (which can ambiguously also refer to a laptop), but in recent years I've noticed that, probably because few people use landline phones anymore, cell phones are just called "téléphone" now, or "tél" in short form (used especially when writing messages). If you forget your cell phone on the table at the restaurant, these days the waiter will most likely say : "Vous avez oubliez votre téléphone sur la table".
No clue what that is either. I'm a member of the Anti Beer League anyway. Never understood how people could drink that piss-looking liquid (other than the fact it's dirt cheap, which is why many young students drink it I suppose)...
In France the full name is "téléphone portable", often shortened as "portable" (which can ambiguously also refer to a laptop), but in recent years I've noticed that, probably because few people use landline phones anymore, cell phones are just called "téléphone" now, or "tél" in short form (used especially when writing messages). If you forget your cell phone on the table at the restaurant, these days the waiter will most likely say : "Vous avez oubliez votre téléphone sur la table".
Most anglophones in my part of the world just call it a “phone”.
On appelle ça un cell. from téléphone cellulaire, whether it's smart or not it's called the same thing. On TV they often say téléphone intelligent, but in real life ''cell''
People in Quebec are familiar with the French term “portable” but it sounds out of place here like “mobile (phone)” sounds out of place and Britishy in Anglo North America.
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