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Paris-Rouen rules[edit]

The rules are quoted as stipulating that the bicycles: were not 'to be trailed by a dog or use sails', but I strongly suspect trailed is a mistranslation. Could you perhaps quote the original French (which I can translate for you if necessary, I'm bilingual). Thanks! Awien (talk) 20:55, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No. :) The sentence was taken directly from the Paris-Rouen article on Wiki, where it is referenced to This Island Race by Les Woodland, page 5. Les Woodland's user page demonstrates him to be an acclaimed contributor to wiki, a cycling historian, English by birth and now a French national. Any translation checking would require his original sources, which are often dusty copies of Augendre, Pierre Chany, and a wide variety of other French publications. Maybe LW will contribute here when he returns to wiki, but the translation seems feasible to me, 140 year old French concerns about Health and Safety. Chienlit (talk) 21:27, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Let's hope someone can lay their hands on those dusty old originals, then. Awien (talk) 21:42, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I suppose that 'trailed' can be interpreted as the dog is 'in front, towing' (like a husky) or 'running loose, behind' (like a dalmatian carriage dog). I'm guessing that the rules banned huskys. Chienlit (talk) 22:21, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Exactly. And we never apply the verb "trail" when we talk about vehicles whose motive power is an animal, they're drawn by a horse or an ox, pulled by a dog or a donkey, etc., as opposed to a rope we might trail along the ground. I would be prepared to bet the original has "traîner", and an amateur translator simply went for the English word that looks most like the French one - an extremely common mistake. I may yet just make that change . . . what do you think? Awien (talk) 23:42, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
This is wiki, be bold, do it. Even if you make it unambiguously wrong then somebody else (LW?) will have the opportunity to make it unambiguously correct. Regards Chienlit (talk) 13:28, 6 November 2009 (UTC) ... and thank you, Wiki needs precise French speakers.[reply]
I was this very moment about to do it . . . on my way now. Cheers! Awien (talk) 13:32, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I wrote "trailed by dogs"? I am embarrassed. It should be towed, as in the French traîner, as Awien kindly suggests. If I wrote it, I have no idea why. I can only blush because I know perfectly well what it means. Now, then, where's my sackcloth...?Les woodland (talk) 19:57, 23 November 2009 (UTC)les woodland[reply]

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