Jean-Claude Gouin Dec 20, 2013:

@ Daryo Thank you for taking the time to explain your ideas. I appreciate your remarks ...

patrickfor Dec 20, 2013:

I am not discussing the opportunity of a glossary entry here.

From the beginning I have been making a global remark about translating a "source term" into a "target term" when clicking on "answer" on a KudoZ entry. It's a (quote) "English term or phrase" we have to translate so the tense matters...

About the glossary, I agree with your comments, but this is not what I am talking about... My apologies if I wasn't clear enough.

Daryo Dec 20, 2013:

As long as after looking in the glossary you don't confuse "a raft" (= un radeau) with "a raft of" you can always use some other synonym of une foule / une multitude etc. more appropriate to your ST.
"to serve" is just the infinitive of "serve" (3rd person plural) what's the difference? Isn't is usual to put verbs in the infinitive form in glossaries/dictionaries?

patrickfor Dec 20, 2013:

It makes sense Daryo except that in the target language knowing what "a raft of" applies to, could lead to another translation... You never know! And to stay with the current case if you know what you should put for "serve" simply don't put it in the source term.
Last, but not least "serve" is not "to serve" so different translation again....
As simple as that :-)

Daryo Dec 20, 2013:

the term to put in a glossary should be "a raft of"; the "of" bit is crucial, as is to make it clear the "a raft of" can't be used on its own, it's always used to qualify a noun in plural;

"to serve" is far from being the only verb that could be applied to "a raft of", and there's no need to put an entry "to serve a raft of" as the meaning of "to serve a raft of" is simply the combination of the meaning of "to serve" and of "a raft of"; there's no unexpected new meaning in this combination, unlike "pas de quoi + fouetter + un chat" or "to loose+the whip".

a raft of. informal. a very large number of people or things.
[http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/raft]

Yes, it's "mon dada favori" if the question itself need perfecting, it should be done, otherwise you're helping no one - neither the Asker nor whoever will be using later the glossary.

patrickfor Dec 20, 2013:

A mon avis même le source est tangeant.... c'est plutôt "serve a raft of (satisfied) customers" satisfied n'est pas nécessaire mais "customers" l'est car on ne peut traduire raft sans savoir à quoi s'applique ce "raft".... Enfin on pourrait mais sans forcement choisir la meilleure proposition...

Didier Fourcot Dec 20, 2013:

Bonne remarque En tous cas dans le glossaire il faudra élaguer les réponses proposées, le terme source est bien délimité "serve a raft", les réponses se sont un peu étalées, un modérateur dans la salle pour nous détailler le "current standing" du site à se sujet?

patrickfor Dec 20, 2013:

Juste un remarque, et je ne sais pas si c'est le lieu pour la faire.... Dans une fiche de trad on a une expression source ici "serve a raft" et une expression cible (target) il me semble que dans l’intérêt de tous l'expression cible doive être la plus précise.
On peut utiliser le champ explication pour mettre une trad plus large mais je ne comprends pas qu'on dérive dans la trad. dans'serve a raft' il n'y a ni acheter, ni régulièrement, ni satisfait etc.
Si plus tard on cherche "serve a raft" on va trouver quoi ?
Je suis nouveau ici et je demande un avis, je suis personnellement désarçonné... Merci :-)