Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
Section: CANARDAGES
English translation:
Section: Shoot\'em Up
Added to glossary by
veratek
Dec 12, 2012 16:37
11 yrs ago
French term
Section: CANARDAGES
French to English
Art/Literary
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Canard_enchaîné
I'm translating a short article for this section. Due at 6:45 pm Paris time.
I'm translating a short article for this section. Due at 6:45 pm Paris time.
Proposed translations
(English)
4 | shoot'em up | jmleger |
4 +1 | Section: CANARDAGES | Emma Paulay |
3 +2 | Section: Sitting Ducks | Daryo |
Proposed translations
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shoot'em up
canarder means to shoot at something/someone, either literally or metaphorically. I borrowed the term from video games where one gets to shoot at everything in sight.
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16 mins
Section: CANARDAGES
OK, I'd start the whole thing by explaining what the Canard Enchaîné is. Obvioulsy, that would include an explanation of the canard=duck in French as newspaper=rag in English. For this section, I'd explain as follows:
Section Title: CANARDAGES
A play on the word BAVARDAGES, which means chatter. The word canard (duck) replaces bavard. All of the newspaper's section headings are puns about ducks.
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Note added at 49 mins (2012-12-12 17:26:47 GMT)
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Ah yes - just realised it's not necessarily a play on bavardages but on the verb "canarder" i.e. to take pot shots.
Section Title: CANARDAGES
A play on the word BAVARDAGES, which means chatter. The word canard (duck) replaces bavard. All of the newspaper's section headings are puns about ducks.
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Note added at 49 mins (2012-12-12 17:26:47 GMT)
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Ah yes - just realised it's not necessarily a play on bavardages but on the verb "canarder" i.e. to take pot shots.
Peer comment(s):
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Colin Morley (X)
: Yes - it isn't really translatable without explanation in detail. I would have suggested " quacking" - or something similar - but I see another section is "couac!" - Good luck with this one.
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Section: Sitting Ducks
Section: Sitting Ducks (or Section: Sitting Ducks of the week)
"canarder ✰ [kanaʀde] (se conjugue comme arriver)
1 verbe transitif
[au fusil] ▶ to snipe at, ▶ to take potshots at "
[Collin-Robert]
You can see it as section where they are taking "satirical potshots" at all sort of people who deserved it.
To keep with the imagery of ducks, all these miscreants could be seen as "sitting ducks" - people who put themselves in a position where they are exposed in plain view to "satirical potshots".
"sitting duck
Fig. someone or something vulnerable to attack, physical or verbal. (Alludes to a duck floating on the water, not suspecting that it is the object of a hunter or predator. *Typically: be ~; like ~; looking like~.) You look like a sitting duck out there. Get in here where the enemy cannot fire at you. The senator was a sitting duck because of his unpopular position on school reform."
[http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/sitting duck]
"canarder ✰ [kanaʀde] (se conjugue comme arriver)
1 verbe transitif
[au fusil] ▶ to snipe at, ▶ to take potshots at "
[Collin-Robert]
You can see it as section where they are taking "satirical potshots" at all sort of people who deserved it.
To keep with the imagery of ducks, all these miscreants could be seen as "sitting ducks" - people who put themselves in a position where they are exposed in plain view to "satirical potshots".
"sitting duck
Fig. someone or something vulnerable to attack, physical or verbal. (Alludes to a duck floating on the water, not suspecting that it is the object of a hunter or predator. *Typically: be ~; like ~; looking like~.) You look like a sitting duck out there. Get in here where the enemy cannot fire at you. The senator was a sitting duck because of his unpopular position on school reform."
[http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/sitting duck]
Peer comment(s):
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emiledgar
: or even "Ducks in a Barrel" // Yes it is! I was mixing adages to suit the occasion.
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Thanks! BTW, wasn't that usually "Shooting fish in a barrel"?
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agree |
Wolf Draeger
: Good one.
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