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Electrical translation

For one of my many festive period chores, I’ve replaced a rather out-dated spotlight with an ordinary light fitting that I can put an energy efficient bulb in. Whilst idly looking at the package of the bulb I noticed this wonderful attempt at shortcutting on the multilingual information.

By my calculations I now know either 3 or 4 spellings of energy, depending on whether ‘energi’ is allowed.

Incidentally, why the insistence on referring to energy efficient bulbs by this name. I suspect that many cynics would be won over by renaming them as ‘cost saving bulbs.

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  • Al Sames says:

    Translations of English ‘energy’:

    French: énergie
    German: energie
    Dutch: energie
    Spanish: energía
    Italian: energia
    Portuguese: energia
    and, just for laughs, here’s the Chinese [traditional]: 能量

    Cheers,
    Al.