Abstract Book of the 8th International Conference on Advanced Research in Social Sciences Studies
Year: 2025
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The Translation of Transparent Scientific Terms
Dr. Rania Ziouziou
ABSTRACT:
Transparent terms are words that share the same spelling and the same meaning in different languages, such as: Robot, hotel, zoo… all those words are the same both in French and English for example. Those words seem to be easy to translate both ways, however there are some terms that doesn’t apply to this rule, which are scientific terminology. In mathematics, “naturel numbers” in English refers to all the positive numbers starting from 1 to infinity, but in French the set of “nombres naturels” include also the 0. This example shows two terms that are similar in spelling but different in meaning, which may lead to a wrong translation if the translator doesn’t have any scientific background. Transparent terms are not reliable in scientific translation, translators should always know exactly the meaning of every term. Moreover, bilingual readers and scientists should be careful and never assume the meaning of these words based on their similarity, especially for exact sciences.
keywords: bilanguage, equivalence, mathematics, terminology, transparent