Cerveau Droit

11:38 Feb 24, 2021 

As per the norm for translating the names of associations, I'll keep it in French. I guess I was just trying to think of a creative way to share the joke and put a suggestion to the client.

@Smu - that did make me chuckle!

16:31 Feb 20, 2021 

...attention, humour irlandais ! Quand il y Mc et un prénom un peu bizarre ou compliqué à prononcer, ça risque d'être un Irlandais, ou pire, un Ecossais ! Smile !

15:01 Feb 20, 2021 

Conor, pas de problème en ce qui concerne la traduction.Je dois uniquement m'habituer à votre humour anglais. Smile!

14:56 Feb 20, 2021 

J'ai mal compris ton (je tutoie, j'espère que ça te va ?) commentaire parce que je n'ai pas vu que j'avais publié "neurolaw" avant toi. En gros je disais que le terme me rappelle le "Newspeak" de Orwell et un film de science-fiction.

14:45 Feb 20, 2021 

@ Conor
Je n'ai pas compris le sens de votre commentaire qui vient de disparaître...

14:28 Feb 20, 2021 

See my post last night at 20:23 French time.

Probably a better name (in French) that Cerveau Droit, actually.

To Smu: hahaha!

11:22 Feb 20, 2021 

A Saturday morning smile for you: I just looked up 'cerveau droit' on Wordreference and the search interface asked 'Did you mean sea trout?' :- )

10:33 Feb 20, 2021 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurolaw
NEUROLAW ?

20:03 Feb 19, 2021 

Opel:
Histoire : La GM dans le monde : Vauxhall, Opel, Holden, Saab
https://www.motorlegend.com/histoire-automobile/centenaire-d...

Growing up, what we now know as Snickers was called a Marathon bar.

The Daily Mirror is called The Daily Record in Scotland.

19:51 Feb 19, 2021 

I had to become aware of the Spanish supermarket chain "Al Campo" (I think it's called) to understand the wordplay in Auchan, its parent company.

https://www.alcampo.es/compra-online/

You can also note that Decathlon and Societe Generale recently dropped their accents (and SocGen even left its name out of its logo, quietly, after the Kerviel scandal!).

I think it's typical of the UK-France dichotomy that in the UK puns are mostly greeted with groans whereas jeux de mots in France are everywhere, and seen as the height of intelligence.

19:31 Feb 19, 2021 

Hello all

I'm a bit surprised that everyone says you shouldn't change the name of an organisation. I mean yes of course if you are simply doing a translation that mentions it.
But isn't it a bit different when you are translating their own site. Some companies choose to keep their original name, others don't.
I think that as French and English basically share the same alphabet this has led to some rather "sweeping" statements. Would they say the same thing on the Russian to English language pair? I doubt it as the Russian would be unreadable for us.
Anyway, the asker is aware of all this and did ask for help to translate it, at least I suppose to propose a translation to the end-client

17:48 Feb 19, 2021 

The line following your text gives the game away - it's the name of an Asociation:

CERVEAU DROIT invite à se "creuser les méninges" entre disciplines et à découvrir, avec les yeux du droit et de la pratique judiciaire, un continent qui reste encore peu connu : celui des neurosciences et du CERVEAU.

Pour tout renseignement, vous pouvez écrire à son président, Edmond Frety : [email protected]

Yes, there is a wordplay (BrainLaw) but you shoudn't translate it.

17:15 Feb 19, 2021 

If this is a title - e.g., of an event or an association or society, etc. - , then I probably wouldn’t translate it.

16:34 Feb 19, 2021 

Please note that I have asked the same question on Wordreference.