Therefore, I begin to think that Anglo-Saxons are to blame, because they
choose such an untranslatable word!!:))) 


Best, 
Bogdan-Florin POPOVICI, Ph.D.
Archivist
Brasov 
ROMANIA


-----Original Message-----
From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of A.Khramtsovsky
Sent: 9 decembrie 2006 11:01
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Subject: Re: [RM] The Position Title "Records Manager" en Francais

> 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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