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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

twit

French translation:

tweet

Added to glossary by Marie-Ange West
May 17, 2010 09:08
14 yrs ago
English term

twit

English to French Other IT (Information Technology) Twitter
Learn Chinese on Twitter
The Chinese Voice Twitter is the twit to follow! Be the first to get every blog post, newsletter and news from ChineseVoice.com.

Le Twitter de Chinese Voice est le twit à suivre !
Proposed translations (French)
5 +3 tweet
5 twit
1 touite

Discussion

EricBT May 17, 2010:
I agree with Glen You can find the same mistake here:
"The Hebrew Online Twitter is the twit to follow! Get instant access to every blog post, newsletter and news from HebrewOnline.com all in one place and as ..."
www.hebrewonline.com/resources.asp
Glen McCulley May 17, 2010:
"tweet" should be a pretty ubiquitous term by now...
Glen McCulley May 17, 2010:
but why then would you be expected "to follow" the twit?! I just don't think your wordplay applied here. It's nothing more complicated than a tweet that's been retranscribed 'twit' in the (Chinese?) original.
kashew May 17, 2010:
Twits and nerds! And someone who doesn't twitter is called a twit (via) [fr] Et celui qui n'utilise pas twitter est appelé un twit (crétin) ...
www.speedenglish.us/.../british-slang-and-someone-who-doesn... -
It's all beyond me!
Glen McCulley May 17, 2010:
er... er... I don't see that wordplay - can you explain?
kashew May 17, 2010:
Slang! Hi! As you twig, there's wordplay in there! It will necessarily be lost in translation! Unless the person really is a berk!

Proposed translations

+3
42 mins
Selected

tweet

Oui c'est le même terme en français, mais ce n'est pas un twit = un couillon!), c'est un TWEET!


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Note added at 47 mins (2010-05-17 09:55:37 GMT)
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S'appèlle 'tweet' parce que le logo de twitter c'est un oiseau, et le bruit que fait l'oiseau (en anglais) = 'tweet tweet' (et non pas 'twit twit'!)

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Note added at 49 mins (2010-05-17 09:57:31 GMT)
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"suivre les tweets" + twitter: gets you 58000 googles
"suivre les twits" + twitter: gets you 1,120 googles
Example sentence:

Personnalisez Twitter en choisissant qui suivre, puis visualisez leurs tweets au fur et à mesure qu'ils les envoient

Reference:

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweets

http://fr.twitter.com/

Peer comment(s):
agree kashew : Now it's clear! Like frangling "swit" for sweat(shirt)!
25 mins
agree HughDESS : Oui, sur le site français de Tweeter, on parle effectiveemnt de Tweets
45 mins
agree M&A Translation
52 mins
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
2 mins

twit

c'est bien le même terme en français
Peer comment(s):
agree GILLES MEUNIER : let's twit again)
7 mins
disagree Glen McCulley : not twit but "TWEET"
41 mins
Désolé, effectivement...
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13 mins

touite

Nom féminin, inscrit au Larousse par décision de l'Académie Française du 17/06/2014

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Note added at 15 mins (2010-05-17 09:23:49 GMT)
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Ou éventuellement 'tout it' (prononcer twit)

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Note added at 16 mins (2010-05-17 09:24:48 GMT)
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Ex: La touite de Schubert (difficile à suivre)
Peer comment(s):
neutral writeaway : La touite de Schubert sounds a bit fishy.... ;-)
1 hr
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