the correct French translation of Jet-lag.It's not too difficult to find the following three variations being in use on the web:le décollage horairele décallage horairele décalage horaire

* Décollage should be considered as a pure mistake (I'm sorry Mark :-(: Décollage in this context in French simply means the action of a plane taking off.* Décallage horaire, also, is to be seen as a mistake: only décalage (one l) exists as a noun in French, meaning [time difference]: (Larousse Lexis dictionary): "Il y a six heures de décalage horaire entre Paris et New York.* Décalage horaire, meaning [time difference] seems also to be the correct translation for jet-lag, please check: http://french.about.com/library/motdujour/blmdj-decalagehoraire.htmWhich is confirmed by the leading Collins & Robert, French dictionary: jet-lag (les troubles dûs or la fatigue dûe au) décalage horaire.

Google Fights (for quantitative analyses) gives the following results:http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=d%E9callage+horaire&word2=d%E9calage+horairedécallage horaire versus décalage horaire 28.900 <> 1.040.00Detailed analysis at http://www.mozbot.com/search?q=d%E9callage+horaire&st=localShows that décallage is a common mistake mostly made by English speaking people.

All this, of course, won't need to stand in the way to enjoy your stay in beautiful Swiss romande :-)

P.s I'm not a native speaker of French, so please correct me if I'm mistaken.

Thanks for the correction/translation/linguistic fun.

So it works out that I've been spelling it wrong for another year... but at least I've been pronouncing it right. ;) It's better than trying to explain to somebody that the toddler has "le jette lagge".

Anyhow, my 5.5 year stay in Suisse Romande so far hasn't been hurt much by my goofy French. We'll see what happens when I ask for citizenship. :)

I do still kind-of like thinking of it as décollage, since that really does mean un-stuck, in terms of an airplane taking off too: it becomes un-stuck from the ground.

I really do appreciate knowing the right way to write it now, because it's the sort of thing I might be tempted to use on the rédaction part of an exam, and I would certainly have gotten points off for décollage.

Thanks!

-mark

Can I pick "none of the above" and go for some hourly décolletage instead?

I've always liked the Japanese term jisaboke, whose components are defined by WWWJDIC thusly:

時差 【じさ jisa】 (n) time difference; (P) 惚け(P); 呆け(P) 【ぼけ boke】 (n,suf) (uk) idiot; fool; touched in the head from; out of it from; space case; Alzheimer's

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