# Attention French Linguists

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-french-linguists/38611>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 27, 2000, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-french-linguists/38611 "2000-10-27T16:06:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![ATTGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@ATTGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ATTGuy)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-french-linguists/38611/1 "2000-10-27T16:06:57Z")

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I’m looking for someone to translate “Long live the information revolution” into French for me. I know how grammatically unreliable that Altavista is, the closest I could come is “Vivre l’information révolution” which doesn’t look right to me and my two-year high school French education. Lil help?

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**Author:** ![Ivar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ivar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ivar)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-french-linguists/38611/2 "2000-10-27T16:12:16Z")

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yeah that’s about right only it’s “Vive”, not “vivRe”

as in Vive le France, or long live france.

translation is not direct but the appropriate meaning is there.

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**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-french-linguists/38611/3 "2000-10-27T16:34:51Z")

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Ivar is right. Throwing a “longtemps” in there really won’t add much.

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**Author:** ![scratch1300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@scratch1300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch1300)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-french-linguists/38611/4 "2000-10-27T16:42:15Z")

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“Vive le revolution d’information” would I think be a more natural order (please excuse my keyboard not having accents available).

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**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-french-linguists/38611/5 "2000-10-27T16:57:31Z")

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Except I think revolution is feminine.

Which is funny coming from me since “bete” if feminine and I should be betenoire.

“Vive la revolution d’information.”  
Unless “revolution d’information” has some other conotation. Where are the Canadians?

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**Author:** ![kiffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d78d45/32.png) [@kiffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiffa)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-french-linguists/38611/6 "2000-10-27T17:31:22Z")

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How about Vive la revolution informitique?

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-french-linguists/38611/7 "2000-10-27T17:57:11Z")

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Vive la révolution de l’information = Long live the information revolution.

Vive la révolution informatique = Long live the computer science revolution.