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téléboutique/taxiphone

English translation: Pay telephone

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French term or phrase: téléboutique/taxiphone
English translation:Pay telephone
Entered by: dwinters

14:04 Jul 1, 2008
French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Telecom(munications)
French term or phrase: téléboutique/taxiphone
Hi,

I am doing a translation about the telecoms systems in callshops. The original French document refers to "téléboutiques", "taxiphones" and "callshops". Am I right in thinking that these all refer to the same thing - "callshops" in English. Or are they different?

Any advice would be most welcome.

Many thanks : )
Georgia Ford
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:24
Pay telephone
Explanation:
While these are generally shops, there are a whole variety of terms for them. Pay telephone is the standard translation in American English, despite this referring normally to a phone booth, and not the shop usually designated by a taxiphone. I might lean toward public call office or something like that, but the web reference I listed, from the EU terminology folks, gives a bunch of other variants that may fit your context better.
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dwinters
United States
Local time: 08:24
Grading comment
Thanks for your help on this one - I went with callshop in the end! : )
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Pay telephone


Language variant: Public Call Office, Public Call box, Coin telephone, ...

Explanation:
While these are generally shops, there are a whole variety of terms for them. Pay telephone is the standard translation in American English, despite this referring normally to a phone booth, and not the shop usually designated by a taxiphone. I might lean toward public call office or something like that, but the web reference I listed, from the EU terminology folks, gives a bunch of other variants that may fit your context better.


    Reference: http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/FindTermsByLilId.do?lilId=165...
dwinters
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Local time: 08:24
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Thanks for your help on this one - I went with callshop in the end! : )

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