Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

cékoidonc (written slang)

English translation:

whazat (written slang - UK)

Added to glossary by Nikki Scott-Despaigne
Sep 22, 2001 00:03
22 yrs ago
French term

cékoidon

French to English Tech/Engineering
Submarines. A museum visit with staged explanations for children. Question and answer session for children. Here's the whole of the relevant extract, although the problematic term appears only in the very beginning.

"Recto : La propulsion, CEKOIDON ?

Verso : Les sous-marins classiques ont des moteurs électriques qui sont alimentés par des moteurs diesel en surface (le moteur diesel a besoin d'air pour fonctionner) et par des batteries en plongée.
Les sous-marins nucléaires utilisent une chaufferie nucléaire pour transformer l'eau en vapeur. Pour certains sous-marins, la vapeur alimente des turbines qui entraînent directement l'hélice. Pour d’autres sous-marins, ce sont des turboalternateurs qui transforment la vapeur en électricité ; celle-ci alimente les moteurs de propulsion."

Proposed translations

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"c'est quoi donc"

As far as I know "cekoidon" is the name for a Radio game. As you can read from my answer, "cekoidon" is the contraction of "c'est quoi donc", "what is this".
Have a nice day

Peer comment(s):

agree peterver : seems very obvious!-good one
47 mins
agree Youri PIEDBOIS
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agree Maya Jurt : Absolument.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks for the info! I listen to France Info, France Inter (sometimes) and one or two music stations but had never heard of this one. Thanks to Mary too. The only hits I had for this one were for viruses - should have clicked then too, but didn't!"
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You're going to love this one ...

OK - I did a Google search on this and most of the hits I found were questions:

Qmetric, cékoidon?

or just

cékoidon??

So I started thinking ... (which did hurt a bit) ... then I thought how I'd pronounce this thing ... and came up with:

c'est quoi donc ...

or 'whassat?'

Whatdya think?

Mary
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