{"id":26781,"date":"2017-04-26T14:12:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T12:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=26781"},"modified":"2017-10-27T12:40:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T10:40:13","slug":"the-origin-of-lordinateur-computers-in-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/the-origin-of-lordinateur-computers-in-french\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origin Of L’Ordinateur – Computers In French"},"content":{"rendered":"

New technologies<\/a> comme<\/strong> (like) the Internet and computers need new words to describe them. Those new words either comes from adaptations of older words or are completely new inventions. One such word is computer in French: ordinateur<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Le nom<\/strong> (the noun) computer<\/em> comes from le verbe<\/strong> (the verb) to compute<\/em>, which originally comes from the French word compter<\/strong><\/em>, which then comes from Latin<\/a>: computare<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Computare \u2192 Compter \u2192 To Compute \u2192 Computer<\/p>\n

The original meaning of to compute<\/em> has the same meaning as the modern French word compter<\/strong><\/a>: to count or add up.<\/p>\n

In English, le mot<\/strong> (the word) computer<\/em> was used to describe people who performed calculations more than any machine for most of son histoire<\/strong> (its history). With the new inventions of the 20th<\/sup> century le mot<\/strong> began to take on a new meaning as new electronic machines began making complicated calculations more than computers<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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IBM 650 Photo<\/a> by Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M. Licnensed under CC BY 2.0.<\/p><\/div>\n

In 1955, l\u2019entreprise<\/strong><\/a> (the company) IBM brought a new computer and le mot<\/strong> ordinateur<\/strong> <\/em>to France. They needed a word for the device and l’entreprise<\/strong> could have simply used the English word, especially since the word compter<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is already un mot fran\u00e7ais<\/strong>, but they decided to create something new instead.
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Fran\u00e7ois Girard, le responsable du service publicit\u00e9<\/strong> (the head of the advertising department) at IBM France, thought that computer<\/em> was too similar to calculatrice<\/strong> (calculator) and wanted to find a better name for\u00a0\u00ab la nouvelle machine \u00e9lectronique destin\u00e9e au traitement de l’information<\/strong> (the new electronic machine intended for information processing) \u00bb .<\/p>\n

In an effort to find un bon nom fran\u00e7ais<\/strong> (a good french name), Fran\u00e7ois Girard asked son ancien professeur de lettres<\/strong> (his old humanities professor), Jacques Perret, for advice.<\/p>\n

Monsieur<\/strong> Perret had a suggestion based on a rare word, ordonnateur<\/strong><\/em>: someone who puts things in order. Le mot<\/strong> comes from le verbe<\/strong> ordonner<\/strong><\/em>, meaning to put in order, to order, to arrange<\/em>, which comes from le mot latin<\/strong><\/a>: ordinare<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Monsieur <\/strong>Perret\u2019s idea was more cumbersome than the final word: ordinatrice \u00e9lectronique<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Eventually, IBM settled on ordinateur<\/strong> <\/em>as le mot<\/strong> for the new product. Au d\u00e9but <\/strong>(at first), l\u2019entreprise <\/strong>wanted to keep le mot ordinateur<\/em><\/strong> as a trademark, but l’ordinateur <\/strong>became too popular and entered la langue fran\u00e7aise <\/strong>as a normal word.<\/p>\n

Ordinare \u2192 Ordonner \u2192 Ordonnateur \u2192 Ordinateur<\/p>\n

L’histoire<\/strong><\/a> behind l\u2019ordinateur<\/strong> gives us an interesting look into how new words are developed. It can be a bit confusing at times, but I find seeing l’etymologie<\/strong> (the etymology) makes it easier to remember du vocabulaire<\/strong>. If I know l’histoire<\/strong> and can arrange everything in my head it’s like remembering a thrilling story instead of a vocabulary list!<\/p>\n

Looking up l’origine <\/strong><\/a>(the origin) of les mots<\/strong> is also much less embarrassing than not knowing how to say something au magasin<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

New technologies comme (like) the Internet and computers need new words to describe them. Those new words either comes from adaptations of older words or are completely new inventions. One such word is computer in French: ordinateur. Le nom (the noun) computer comes from le verbe (the verb) to compute, which originally comes from the…<\/p>\n

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