{"id":15343,"date":"2018-04-06T12:37:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T11:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=15343"},"modified":"2018-04-06T12:37:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T11:37:23","slug":"handymen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=15343","title":{"rendered":"Handymen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that we discussed at the French conversation group last night was how to translate the term <strong>handyman<\/strong> into French.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Handyman\">Wikipedia<\/a>, a handyman, or handyperson or handyworker is: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a person skilled at a wide range of repairs, typically around the home. These tasks include trade skills, repair work, maintenance work, are both interior and exterior, and are sometimes described as &#8220;side work&#8221;, &#8220;odd jobs&#8221; or &#8220;fix-up tasks&#8221;. Specifically, these jobs could be light plumbing jobs such as fixing a leaky toilet or light electric jobs such as changing a light fixture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The term may apply to someone who makes a living doing such work, or to do-it-yourselfers.<\/p>\n<p>The French equivalent on <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homme_%C3%A0_tout_faire\">Wikipedia<\/a> is <strong>homme \u00e0 tout faire<\/strong> (&#8220;man who does everything&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/english-french\/handyman\">Reverso Dictionary<\/a> a handyman is translated into French as a <strong>bricoleur<\/strong> or <strong>homme \u00e0 tout faire<\/strong>. The former is labelled as a do-it-yourselfer, and the latter as a servant. So it seems the connotations of these words are not quite the same as in English.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a better translation of <strong>homme \u00e0 tout faire<\/strong> is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/factotum#English\">factotum<\/a>, which is Latin for &#8220;do everything&#8221;, and is an old word for a person having many diverse activities or responsibilities, or a general servant.<\/p>\n<p>When you hear the word handyman, what does it mean to you?<\/p>\n<p>What equivalents are there in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that we discussed at the French conversation group last night was how to translate the term handyman into French. According to Wikipedia, a handyman, or handyperson or handyworker is: a person skilled at a wide range of repairs, typically around the home. These tasks include trade skills, repair work, maintenance work, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,111,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-french","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}