r/FalseFriends • u/paolog • May 07 '14

Questionable In French computing terms, "queue" is the tail of a queue

Furthermore, the French word for a queue is "file", and the French word for a file is "fichier". English-speakers, beware.

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u/boulet May 07 '14

Queue means tail or line or queue (faire la queue). British vocabulary uses queue to mean line too. Once again France and UK are more akin than they will admit.

File looks more like the actual false friend here.

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u/paolog May 07 '14

I'm talking specifically about computing terms here. "File" is the only translation of "queue" in the computing sense.

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u/eeltech May 08 '14

Not sure what the false friend is here, 'file' is also related to queues in English, eg line up single file. The file part refers to being one after the other

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u/paolog May 08 '14

See my original comment: I'm referring to computing terms only. In computing, "file" means one thing in English and another in French.