Digital BW, The Print

At 10:06 PM 2/11/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>FYI…Rest assured that the word “giclee” is very proper
>to use. 
>Here is what it means according to the Hachette
>Dictionary: “giclée n. f. Jet de liquide qui gicle.
>Une giclée de sang.  
>And here is how it is translated by the Harrap’s :
>1-spirt, squirt (of water, blood); burst (of
>machine-gun fire)  2- spray (of petrol into
>carburetor).
>It is not a “slang” 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 Giclée 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
>> 


Guess you win Benoit. So what do they call ink jet prints in french-speaking
countries?  Let me guess... :-)


AZ



Maker of Lookaround panoramic camera.

www.geocities.com/soho/gallery/8874/
         or
keyword.com lookaround