Translating my website to French

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Permalink Reply by Chantal Savignat on January 29, 2014 at 8:04pm

Hello

I went on your website.

on the left :

1) "Est" is not used. When we use the word "Est" it's for Russian countries. "You may use "Films Japonais" (but I just looked the first page)

2) What are Fan Films ?

3) I am not sure to understand "Indie" because in this page there are "Will Hunting" and "Quai des brumes" ?

4) films that are in "vacances" we use to put them in "familial" but here it's "Noël"

5) "acteurs - actrices" rather ""gens populaires"

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Permalink Reply by Eliran Cohen on January 29, 2014 at 9:52pm

Thank you!

About the movie categories, I can't fix them because they are being taken from external source.

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Permalink Reply by Robert on January 30, 2014 at 7:05am

Chantal, Indies are movies made by small groups who work independently of the major studios.

The suffix -ie is used when you clip a word to create a noun; you add -ie just to make it easy to pronounce.

Selfie - A phone photo taken of oneself.
Falsie - Padding inside a brassiere.
Quickie -Quick sexual encounter.

Is there a similar pattern of word formation in French ?

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Permalink Reply by Chantal Savignat on February 1, 2014 at 9:19am

ok

"Indies" in France (not in French, because I'am not sure about Canadians)  could  be understand as "bollywood". (by the way it was my first idea, before I looked the movies).

so we rather say "indépendant" or "cinéma indépendant"

Now I don't have any idea about French words with a suffix just to make easy to pronounce ...

but more and more, we use English words instead of the French words when it's easier to pronounce. Quickie is used with the same meaning.

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