Danish to English translations [PRO]
Science - Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-) | | Danish term or phrase: kaospiloterne | | This is a Danish term that ALL Danes seem to know and understand, but are quite poor at explaining. I need a simple equivalent phrase in English. And not "chaos pilots", please, which really means nothing to the English audience. |
| | | chaos navigators | Explanation:
They call their students KaosPiloter, and yes, it does translate as 'chaos navigators'.
www.threemonkeysonline.com/threemon_printable.php?id=172
“Chaos navigators guide people through change, making sense out of confusion, clarifying what ...
courses.csusm.edu/gbm426go/RosenModelExp.ppt
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Note added at 10 mins (2008-05-06 21:40:02 GMT)
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“As leaders,” the authors write, “we must now be realistic optimists, urgent listeners, chaos navigators, and global capitalists all in one. ...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1048984301000911
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| Selected response from:
 Michele Fauble
Local time: 15:09
| Grading comment Cheers!
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9 hrs confidence:   peer agreement (net): +2 KaosPilots
Explanation:
Well, I don't like it either, but that's what they call themselves. See the link below (in English).
Reference: http://www.kaospilot.dk/
| Jørgen Madsen
Local time: 23:09
Works in field
Native speaker of:  Danish
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| | Notes to answerer
Asker: Cheers to you, too, Jørgen. I thought I could add ALL the answers to the glossary, but it seems not.
I like Christine's point that we have to choose name vs. explanation, particularly when the name is more of a marketing ploy than a description itself.
To be honest, the first image I got when I read "kaospiloterne" was of some sort of mockery of an air show, where the planes fly all over the place nearly hitting one another, the pilots wearing evil clown masks ...
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