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Subject:	Re: Ionic contamination limit for PWA with 0402 sizedcompone nts
From:	"Ingemar Hernefjord (EMW)" <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:	Tue, 29 May 2001 09:07:26 +0200
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So, what coat style do you recommend the french, Brian?
Ingemar




Graham

Having worked in Continental Europe (but not in the EU) for donkey's
years, I sympathise with your point of view. I think that the real
terminological problem is that, in some continental languages, it is not
possible to find a suitable word for a coating. In French, for example,
the nearest word is "couche" (lit. bed, by extension, layer) but
"couchage" as coating is very slang. "Enduit" or "revêtement" would be
more precise but still not the same as coating and are not often used in
this context. On the other hand, in the days when the only protective
coating was a phenolic varnish, the word "vernis" was commonly used, but
this can also mean a pigmented paint, so "laque" was used to denote that
it was transparent, even if it did not contain the sumac resin that
genuine lacquers contain. By extension, this has continued to include,
loosely, conformal coating. But the term "conformal coating", either as
the action of applying or the resulting layer, is really intraductible
in French. "Couchage conforme", for example, is the act of putting baby
to bed (or putting on its nappy/diaper), according to European Union
Directives (I'm sure there must be one on the subject!). :-) So, please,
don't be too hard on those who don't have the mot juste and who are too
intransigeant to accept foreign language terms into their sacred
language. Personally, I prefer "enduit de protection" but this doesn't
connote "conformal".

Brian

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