Hi folks,

I need to know the proper French Canadian terminology for the words "dimmer switch". I'm referring to the switch that controls High and Low beams on the headlights, not a dashboard panel dimmer.

Can you help?

bjb

Is it not referred to as a "dip switch"?

Jim
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Time is natures way of keeping everything from happening at once.

Darn, never saw that one on the back of the cereal box.

High/low selection was usually done with a SPDT (single pole double throw) Foot Switch, which alta vista's babel fish translates as "solo interruptor del pie del tiro del doble del poste"

oop's the default translation was set to spanish,
french should be "commutateur simple de pied de jet de double de poteau"

I still don't recognise it from the cereal box.

mike

See this is what happens when bilingualism fails.
I bet you can say Captain Crunch in French.
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Jeff Reid

Thanks for the input, but I was really hoping to hear from a real French speaking Canadian person with some automotive background. I need to know the correct terminology, not some colloquialism. The text that I have is "variateur d'eclairage". I suspect that this is incorrect for "dimmer switch".

Anyone???

bjb

Specifically speaking, "variateur" means to vary something, and "d'eclairage" means "of light" so it translates as "vary the light". I don't know if the Quebecois, i.e.,from Quebec, translation would be the same, but they live in their own country anyway.
Rochie

............my wife is bilingual (actually trilingual -English, French and Lituanian). I will ask her when she gets home later.
Also, I just learned that www.dictionary.com offers instant translation. Try there and then we can compare.

"un plus faible commutateur" is what www.dictionary.com gave me. Quite different from what go@translator.com gave me. Any other suggestions?

thx,


bjb