Re: tuplets (was: GDP for kids :)

[Valentin Villenave]

2007/9/24, Henning Hraban Ramm <address@hidden>:

> As Mark Knoop wrote, (indeed "das") "Tupel" is normally a vector and
> as a musical term seems to be as common as "tuplet".
> For the German tuplets named Duole, Triole, Quartole, Quintole/Pentole
> etc. the neologism would have to be "die Tupole", but I guess that's
> silly.

In French, no generic term exist; when we translated the documentation
we had to create a rather ugly mathematical word:
since the terms we use are
triolet ==> meaning triplet
quartolet
quintolet
etc...

We created the
"n-olet"
which is a neologism I haven't seen anywhere in French.

But when I'll translate the comic into French, I think I'll just use
"triolet" since it's by far the most common word.

Valentin