Wired News: Girl Gamers Tackle Male Field

Monday, October 18th, 2004

Wired News: Girl Gamers Tackle Male Field comments on the latest “e-sports” developments:

At first glance, Les Seules might look like an all-girl rock band — complete with sassy attitudes and fawning male groupies — but the Swedish septuplet doesn’t play instruments. They play competitive video games. [...] In French, their name means The Outsiders.

I guess you could translate Les Seules as The Outsiders, but it literally means The Lone Ones — which I found amusing, much like The Lone Rangers from Airheads. A team of multiple lone ones? Multiple loners?

Also, The Outsider is one translation of L’Étranger, Camus’s famous novel, more often known as The Stranger. If you wanted to be The Outsiders (feminine), you’d probably go with Les Étrangères or Les Inconnues (literally The Unknown Ones).

(Take this all with a grain of salt though; I haven’t spoken French in a long, long time.)

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