Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term
les faux
I am translating an article about the paper cutting tradition in the Enhaut region of Switzerland. The article explains that a design is drawn on one side of the paper before being flipped over and cut out with scissors or a cutter. The next sentence is:
Les faux pas ne sont pas permis, la lame ruinerait à jamais le rendu souhaité.
XXXX are not used as the blade would ruin the desired effect.
I realise that 'une faux' translates as 'scythe' but this can't be right as the 'faux' in this sentence is masculine and in any case you surely can't cut paper with a scythe!
Any ideas?
Thank you in advance for your help!
Lucy
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Helen Shiner
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Oct 2, 2014 18:17: Lucy Marie Vauclair (X) changed "Language pair" from "French" to "French to English"
Oct 2, 2014 18:49: Jane F changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Oct 4, 2014 13:19: Helen Shiner Created KOG entry
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Proposed translations
United Kingdom
Arts/Academic translator - Art historian
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, French to English
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Pleasure; it happens to us all!
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SilvijaG
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Sheri P
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Thanks, Sheri
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Linda Miranda
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philgoddard
: I think Lucy may have missed the fact that "pas" occurs twice in the sentence.
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Thanks, Phil, I expect she's kicking herself now.
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John Holland
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Thanks, John
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Daryo
: this being Swiss French, it's pretty mild level of weirdness, and not so difficult to work out
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Thanks, Daryo, we use 'faux pas' as a phrase in EN. Nothing weird about that!
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Discussion
On le comprend en voyant le résultat :
http://www.musee-chateau-doex.ch/m-decoupages.html
http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/pas 2
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lapsus laminae ?