Arabic-L:TRANS:windchill & speech communication

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1) Subject:windchill
2) Subject:windchill and speech communication

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Date: 22 Feb 2007
From: "Marco Hamam" <marco.hamam at poste.it>
Subject:windchill

Hi Ola! What a good question!
I don't think there is a fixed translation for "windchill". Somewhere  
(here, in a site about meteorology, for example: http:// 
arabic.wunderground.com) I've found "رياح باردة" that is a  
bad translation because it means "chill wind" and that does not  
explain the phenomenon. I asked some friends of mine and one said:  
تربد ريحي ... And everybody said: it doesn't work! Nor is it  
برودة الرياح . It does work but it's not this phenomenon,  
as far as I know.
I'd like to open a little discussion starting from what is more a  
definition than a final translation:
تأثير برودة الرياح على شعور الانسان  
بدرجة حرارة جسمه
or just
تأثير الرياح
Hope this little contribution will open a discussion.
By the way, you could ask people at this site http:// 
www.arabicwata.org/ . They are professional Arab translators. If you  
do it, then please share with us your results.
Have a look at the Cairo's Academy of Arabic language here http:// 
www.arabicacademy.org.eg/search.asp?sid=1 .
Best,

Marco Hamam

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Date: 22 Feb 2007
From: "Dr. M. Deeb" <muhammaddeeb at gmail.com>
Subject:windchill

     Both  / التواصل الكلاميً /  and   / 
التخاطب /  would seem to render /speech communication/  
adequately.   As for / windchill /, it is a tough one.  The technical  
term is originally created by Environment Canada.  Let's see how  
other languages deal with it.  The Germans and Italians adopt the  
Canadian term as such:  / Der Windchill ( rather than Windkühle) /  
and / il windchill /.  The Spaniards use / la temperatura de  
sensación /.   The French, in keeping with their linguistic policy,  
come up with a  beautiful translation: "le refroidissement  
éolien."   (Parenthetically, this strikes me as poetic as it evokes  
Coleridge's "Aeolian Harp").    In this light, Ola Moshref may opt  
for an easy way out and adopt the Canadian  term:  /   
وندتشيل  /.  Either that or coin an Arabic equivalent.  Here  
are my attempts:  (1)   /   قًرة الريح  /   (qirrat ur-riiH)   
or (2)   /   برد الريح القارس  / (bard ur-riiH al-qaaris).

* M. Deeb

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