Digital BW, The Print

Ask a french student at a university what he thinks of when he hears the
word, and let me know what he says. The SLANG means ejaculate!

Jerry



Benoit wrote:
> 
> FYI\ufffdRest assured that the word \ufffdgiclee\ufffd is very proper
> to use.
> Here is what it means according to the Hachette
> Dictionary: \ufffdgicl\ufffde n. f. Jet de liquide qui gicle.
> Une gicl\ufffde de sang.
> And here is how it is translated by the Harrap\ufffds :
> 1-spirt, squirt (of water, blood); burst (of
> machine-gun fire)  2- spray (of petrol into
> carburetor).
> It is not a \ufffdslang\ufffd word even though it can be used as
> such by extension (e.g. une giclee de sperm) and from
> my knowledge of the French language, it is quite an
> appropriate definition of a part of the process of the
> Iris printing technology.
> And btw I am really French lol !
> Benoit
> 
> --- Alan Zinn <AZinn@...> wrote:
> > At 01:45 PM 2/10/2002 -0800, you wrote:
> > >  In response to Jerry's early post..  I referred
> > to
> > >the print in my original post as "inkjet" because
> > that
> > >was all I could gather from it.  I couldn't tell if
> > >the inks were carbon or dye, nor could I tell if
> > the
> > >paper was rag or fiber(it was matte, though).  Nor
> > was
> > >it labeled as such.
> > >  So, I just called it an inkjet print, which
> > >*without* labeling, is the only thing you could
> > safely
> > >call any of our prints. (better hope they don't
> > loose
> > >your labels;)
> > >  And I know Gicl\ufffde sounds a bit pretentious, but
> > why
> > >the high level of animosity towards this word?
> > Never
> > >quite understood the reasoning.
> > >
> > >  -Daniel Perez
> > >   Dallas, TX
> > >
> >
> > Daniel,
> >
> > The word giclee is french slang that has a
> > scatological connotation (to real
> > French people) and can mean ,like it's english
> > equiv,. to whiz, piss, etc.
> > Worse, it is a pitiful, self-conscious attempt at
> > frenchifying something to
> > make it seem more cultured. The thinking must have
> > been that it is a word
> > that would appeal to those prissy-pants gallery
> > types - give the
> > vulgar-sounding vernacular a boost in class.  Before
> > this "special" word was
> > invented galley sales people could only wave their
> > hands and refer to some
> > mysterious new process that they couldn't really
> > explain without uttering
> > the words "digital" or "ink-jet".
> >
> > AZ
> >
> >
> > Maker of Lookaround panoramic camera.
> >
> > www.geocities.com/soho/gallery/8874/
> >          or
> > keyword.com lookaround
> >
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