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112 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL  See profile asked this question:

Language pair:

English > French

Subject:

General

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

chav

Context:

Video transcript

Keywords:

Slang

 

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112 months ago

martynback  See profile wrote:

caillera

My comment:

Often useful as a translation of "chav".

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112 months ago

martynback  See profile wrote:

untranslateable

My comment:

Chav is a lifestyle and dress-style proper to the UK. No eqivalent in French. Better to leave Chav in inverted commas.

My references:

Urban dictionary

Comments by other colleagues on this answer:

112 months ago

  See profile wrote:

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/accessibility/transcripts/dr-joe-bennett-chav.aspx You are right: it cannot be translated. Here above, the origin of the word.