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Ping Takayuki or Cantate
Help! I have a question about Japanese, and I hope that either of you
(or anyone else who knows the language) can answer this. I'm fixing a tech manual that was translated from Japanese to English. I don't speak Japanese at all, but my job is to make sure the English sounds natural. Anyway, there's some stuff in it about fetal ultrasounds. It talks about calculating the number of gestational weeks and the "expected date of confinement". Date of *confinement*? I'm not sure how the translator came up with that word. Could this mean the date of delivery? Thanks, Joyce |
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wrote in message ... Help! I have a question about Japanese, and I hope that either of you (or anyone else who knows the language) can answer this. I'm fixing a tech manual that was translated from Japanese to English. I don't speak Japanese at all, but my job is to make sure the English sounds natural. Anyway, there's some stuff in it about fetal ultrasounds. It talks about calculating the number of gestational weeks and the "expected date of confinement". Date of *confinement*? I'm not sure how the translator came up with that word. Could this mean the date of delivery? Thanks, Joyce That used to be the "polite term". Back when you couldn't use words like pregnant. see http://tinyurl.com/h3lrf Jo |
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Jo Firey wrote:
That used to be the "polite term". Back when you couldn't use words like pregnant. I did a Google search on this and I discovered that "date of confinement" is very much an English-language term. I have never heard it before, but have always heard the due date called, well, the "due date". Or maybe the date of delivery. Confinement? What do they *do* in those maternity wards, anyway?? And apparently the old term is in use in medicine, so I guess "confinement" is going to stay. It's even referred to as "EDC" (estimated date of confinement), so I can't exactly change that. I really thought this was just a faulty translation, that perhaps there was a Japanese word that means both confinement and delivery or something, and they chose the wrong English word. Thanks! Joyce |
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Helen Wheels wrote:
This manual doesn't say "All your babe are belong to us", does it? Sorry Helen, Mark Edwards beat you to that joke the other day! It does say a lot of odd things, however. Joyce, burning the 9:15PM oil |
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On 2006-08-19, William Hamblen penned:
"Expected date of confinement", also "EDC", is real medical terminology for the answer to the question, "When are you due?" MDs know what it means. I just want to know whose confinement they're talking about. -- monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca |
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Ping Takayuki or Cantate
Ok, response from a Brit here! Confinement is a term used for the time of
labour/delivery of a baby. I think it stems from times long ago, when well to do women would be advised by the doctor or midwife to take to their beds when birth was close. Most likely, because in those days, women had not such a close idea of when exactly the baby was due. Of course, for the rest of the not so wealthy population, they just worked until they popped! sandra |
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