Vers des "langues européennes". Comment traduire les noms de poissons?
Towards the European languages. How to translate fishes names?

Summary/Abstract: How to translate fish names from French into Hungarian? It is obviously not to easy to manage the great variety of countries the European Union consist of, and this is particularly true from the point of view of languistic diversity. English as the number one international language can only partially solve this problem. Translating gets especially difficult in the case of domains unequally represented in different languages and civilizations. Fish names are such a domain as far as translating from French (and many other European languages) to Hungarian is concerned: Hungary has not sea, many species that are widely eaten in seaside countries are practically unknown to most Hungarians and the Hungarian language has a tendency to use general terms for different (but usually related) fishes. In this paper I will examine the possibility of translating the recipe of French Bouillabaisse into Hungarian comparing French - Hungarian dictionaries with the official European terminology of fishing.

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