> Bogdan-Florin POPOVICI wrote:
> Well, the French people are always too proud to accept something in 
> english.
> You know they do not have a "mouse" attached to their computers but
> "sourris".

We Russians are not that proud (we do have "computers" after all), but we 
usually attach "mysh" instead of "mouse" to them.

> But this "records" issue made them surrender. I was very amused to see in 
> an
> article "le record management". Because they simply cannot fully translate
> it into French!

My people did something worse. "Records" were translated into Russian by a 
government standardization body - incorrectly, as it turned out. Now they 
are "zapisi" which in common Russian corresponds to "records' entries"... 
But QMS specialists (it's their ISO 9000/14000 standards that were 
translated) treat them as higher, better form of records!

BTW some BIG software companies translate "records management" in their 
Russian-language ads as a "management of archives" :)

Regards,
Natasha Khramtsovsky 

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