Foreign Cubing Terms?

[Ickenicke]

Can't remember that I've seen any swedish term for "lookahead", so I can't answer that.

"Tittarunt"

 

[Meep]

In french-canadian,

Corners = Le coeur du cube

 

[Kirjava]

Also seen this:
2x2 - Tvåan
3x3 - Trean
4x4 - Fyran
5x5 - Femman

Sixan, Sjuan?

 

[Stefan]

X-perm is actually H-perm + U2

learn2context, he was talking about 4x4 pll parity

 

[Cubenovice]

The initial name for the Rubik's Cube in The Netherlands was "De Hongaarse Kubus" = "The Hungarian Cube"

In the 1981 book "De Hongaarse kubus" a scrambled cube was called a "vuile kubus" = dirty or filthy cube and solving was called "opschonen" = cleaning up
The author also considered a sub 3:00 cuber a "master"

 

[Olji]

Sexan, Sjuan?

Probably, haven't seen them so I didn't list them, ppl tend to use 6x6 and 7x7 for those for some reason.

 

[ben1996123]

German: Zauberwürfel = Magic cube

 

[y235]

The initial name for the Rubik's Cube in The Netherlands was "De Hongaarse Kubus" = "The Hungarian Cube"

In the 1981 book "De Hongaarse kubus" a scrambled cube was called a "vuile kubus" = dirty or filthy cube and solving was called "opschonen" = cleaning up
The author also considered a sub 3:00 cuber a "master"

that reminds me, in israel we also call it the hungarian cube:
"kubia hungarit קובייה הונגרית"

 

[TMOY]

Sticker = collant

In Canada maybe, but in France we say "étiquette" (and "to peel off the stickers" = "décoller les étiquettes").

 

[CRO]

In Croatia, we have

vrh=corner
rub=edge
naljepnica=sticker

But we tend to use english words more often..

 

[Hippolyte!!!]

For the french:
http://forum.francocube.com/topic484.html
But you could read the french and the english for many terms, because we usually use both. (for exemple, we use "scramble" as often as "mélange", we mostly use "coin(s)" for "corner(s)", but we always use "corner first", never a translation).

 

[Sarahjdes]

For the french:
http://forum.francocube.com/topic484.html
But you could read the french and the english for many terms, because we usually use both. (for exemple, we use "scramble" as often as "mélange", we mostly use "coin(s)" for "corner(s)", but we always use "corner first", never a translation).

I think I'll stick with English. What really messes me up is when I find algorithm in French... D H D' H D H² D' makes no sense to me (this is Sune in French).

 

[Hippolyte!!!]

That's an old notation wich was used by a few sites, before so many people become cubers.
No more people are using this now, the international notation is always used.

 

[LarsN]

The danish language causes a lot of confusion when talking about cubing.

Back in the 80's a Rubiks cube was named "professorterning"/"professor cube", which most people still call it. This was a problem for me when I started cubing and searched for a solution online. It took me of course to bigcubes.com.

A cube is called "en terning" which is the same word we use for "dice". Again this causes a lot of confusion. I wrote on FB that my son got a national record for placing dice on top of each other. Everbody thougt I was talking about cubes.

For cubing terms we mostly adapt the english words, because directly translating only works for words like "corners", "edges", etc.

For bld it's a pain to look at other peoples wordlists, because the letters C, W, Q, X and Z are hardly ever used in our language. But then we have a few letters of our own (Æ, Ø, Å).

 

[macky]

[wiki]Cubing Terminology in Different Languages[/wiki]

 

[antoineccantin]

[wiki]Cubing Terminology in Different Languages[/wiki]

F2L in french is definitely not Fyrstu tvö lögin.

 

[LuckyShadows]

In Hungarian it's the Rubik Kocka (Rubik's Cube) or Varázs Kocka (Magic Cube).
As to things like CFOP, F2L, and those terms, I have no idea, and I would actually like to hear the Hungarian terminology

 

[TMOY]

F2L in french is definitely not Fyrstu tvö lögin.

Yep, it's quite weird French
I just corrected the misalignment.

 

[Pro94]

In Italian:

Corner: Angolo
Edge: Spigolo
Algorithm: Algoritmo
To scramble: Mischiare
First Two Layer: Primi Due Strati
Solution: Soluzione.

 

[macky]

Yep, it's quite weird French
I just corrected the misalignment.

Given Hippolyte!'s "fingertricker" pronunced [f~ɛʒɛʁtʁike], I think anything goes in French. =P