Textpertise Mar 13, 2013:

@Moira Same applies. Perpetuation.

MoiraB (asker) Mar 13, 2013:

and then of course there's the Keuringsregulatief 1994 http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0006407/geldigheidsdatum_31-12... - it's been around a long time!

Textpertise Mar 13, 2013:

Aha! Old Dutch for Regulatie http://62.41.28.253/cgi-bin/kit.exe?a=d&d=CAGGCD1907&cl=CL9....

and

http://62.41.28.253/cgi-bin/kit.exe?a=d&d=CBDAEA1909&cl=CL9....

Sally Hill (X) Mar 13, 2013:

@Textpertise
Regulatief may sound like a strange word but this is simply what it is called. If you're interested, you can find the original text, published in the Staatscourant, here: http://tinyurl.com/bamuzyb

Textpertise Mar 13, 2013:

@Sally Indeed, it is there but... I can't help but wonder how this document came to be published with the extra f in the Dutch. Surely Onderzoekingsregulatie would be more correct as a noun. Regulatief is een bijvoegelijk naamwoord, an adjective, which translates as regulatory, regulating or regulative and not as regulation. Are you not perplexed by this? It isn't an isolated typo because the word Orderzoekingsregulatief appears three times in the extract. So perhaps some typist was on autopilot and it wasn't picked up in proofing and so this ridiculous name for the regulation goes down in history and is blindly copied by all and sundry. Of course, it could also be short for a longer title where the f is appropriate, and that would need looking into for which I do not have time at the moment. My feeling is that the translator has assumed it was a typo and translated it as if it said "Onderzoekingsregulatie" but that does not account for the extra "f".

Sally Hill (X) Mar 13, 2013:

@ Textpertise
I beg to differ. The translator was not sloppy but in fact provided a translation in brackets (Regulation on Testing).

Textpertise Mar 13, 2013:

I'm not the only one It seems from freekfluweel's discussion entry that whoever did the official translation of the document cited on Eur-Lex, he or she was also stumped by Onderzoekingsregulatief and left it untranslated. So, whether or not that translator may have been a bit sloppy in not coming up with a proper translation, I guess you could get away with doing that as well and justify it by reference to the article cited here.

MoiraB (asker) Mar 13, 2013:

@ Textpertise Onderzoekingsregulatief isn't part of the question - though perhaps I could have posted the plate thing separately.

freekfluweel Mar 13, 2013:

Onderzoekingsregulatief http://eur-lex.europa.eu/Notice.do?mode=dbl&lang=en&ihmlang=...

Textpertise Mar 13, 2013:

Tryptone soy or soya bovine blood agar plate OK It's either tryptone soya or tryptone soy. Tryptone soya agar plates are usually based on horse or sheep blood but may be bovine and it is bovine in this case. You have quite a few bits of terminology in this question, including "Onderzoekingsregulatief" which to me seems more problematical than the soya plates. Perhaps you could split them?