Angel of Harlem

[ciroccoj]

Today's English minute is brought to you by the new word "Hortatory," meaning 'urging, encouraging, or strongly advising a course of action to somebody.' Look it up if you don't believe me.

Today's French minute is brought to you by BabelFish, a free online French translation service that introduced me to the fact that one translation for a somewhat crude English term for male genitalia translates as "robinet". Which, oddly, translates back to English as "tap" - as in, a faucet.

::pause for immediate L&O-fan giggly moment at the thought of poor ADA Paul um, Faucet being stuck with such an ignominous name::

So then animaltalker asked if any other L&O names translated oddly. So I C&P'd the list of all L&O names from thursday100plus's Info Page, and came up with this:

Loi Et Ordre
Abbie Carmichael	Le Carmichael D'abbie
Adam Schiff	Adam Schiff
Anita Van Buren	Fourgon D'anita Buren
Arthur Branch	Branche De Arthur
Ben Stone	Ben La Pierre
Claire Kincaid	Kincaid De Claire
Ed Green	Vert D'ed
Elizabeth Olivet	Olivet D'elizabeth
Elizabeth Rodgers	Rodgers D'elizabeth
Emil Skoda	Skoda D'emil
Jack Mccoy	Mettent Sur Cric Mccoy
Jamie Ross	Ross De Jamie
Joe Fontana	Fontana De Joe
Lennie Briscoe	Briscoe De Lennie
Max Greevey	Greevey Maximum
Mike Logan	Microphone Logan ouch, man
Nora Lewin	Lewin De Nora
Paul Robinette	Robinette De Paul
Phil Ceretta	Ceretta De Phil
Rey Curtis	Curtis De Rey
Serena Southerlyn	Southerlyn De Serena
Loi Et Ordre : Unité Spéciale De Victim's (that doesn't look right... isn't it victimes?)
Alex Cabot	Cabot D'alex
Brian Cassidy	Cassidy Brian
Casey Novak	Novak De Casey
Don Cragen	Met Le Cragen
Elizabeth Donnelly	Elizabeth Donnelly
Elliot Stabler	Elliot Plus Stable
George Huang	Huang De George
John Munch	John Mâchent
Melinda Warner	Melinda Warner
Monique Jeffries	Jeffries De Monique
Odafin Tutola	Tutola D'odafin
Olivia Benson	Benson D'olivia
Stan Villain	Villani Stan
Loi Et Ordre : Intention Criminelle
Alex Eames	Eames D'alex
Bobby Goren	Policier Goren
James Deakins	Deakins De James
Lynne Bishop	Évêque De Lynne
Ron Carver	Tailleur De Ron

(The answer is no, not really, barring one or two minor giggles.)

• Citations:
  
  
  • go through all purple notes
    
  • go through checklist pages, make sure it's all on Secondary Edit footnotes and FOOTNOTES page.
    
  • contact fellow AEds and SrEd again
    
  • proper intro signals
    
  • ordering of signals
    
  • one signal => many authorities
    
  • parenthetical notations
    
  • calculated from, tables, etc - look up
    
  • cases - find them, cite them, parallel them, pinpoint them
    
  • secondary materials - read & do
    
  • emphasis added & ellipsis
    
  • sic
    
  • make sure Secondary Edit footnotes = FOOTNOTES page.
  
  
• Article content:
  
  
  • legislation
    
  • quotations
    
  • initial capitals
    
  • em hyphen
    
  • word endings
    
  • flagging
    
  • verb-subject, general grammar
    
  • look up editing marks
  
  
• go through OLR checklist
  
• print out hard copy of article
  
• print out hard copy of footnotes
  
• mail myself the two cases

Comments

[officerjudy.livejournal.com]

Well - in the French version of L&O, Paul's name is translated as "Paul Robards."

Maybe *that's* why. ::snk::

[tudorlady.livejournal.com]

Qui? Monsieur Robards -- il est un...? Non. Sûrement non.

::snk:: (which is the same in any language)