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staat weer schuin van onder naar boven

English translation: runs diagonally from


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Dutch term or phrase:staat weer schuin van onder naar boven
English translation:runs diagonally from
Entered by: Ashok Bagri
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13:09 Mar 16, 2006
Dutch to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - IT (Information Technology) / finance
Dutch term or phrase: staat weer schuin van onder naar boven
Het tweede veld is een datumveld zoals het ook in de voorgaande berichten stond met de opbouw YYMMDD. Het veld staat weer schuin van onder naar boven.
Ashok Bagri
Local time: 11:10
at an angle from the bottom up
Explanation:
maybe a possibility...
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Willemina Hagenauw
Local time: 06:40
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Thanks
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Summary of answers provided
3 +2at an angle from the bottom up
Willemina Hagenauw
3 +1commentKen Cox
3 +1(again, the field) is in italics
FionaDV
3is at an upward/rsing angle again
Louis Vorstermans


Discussion entries: 4





  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
at an angle from the bottom up


Explanation:
maybe a possibility...

Willemina Hagenauw
Local time: 06:40
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch
PRO pts in category: 8
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ken Cox: or 'runs diagonally from...' (hard to imagine, but that's what it says...)
10 mins
neutral  Jack den Haan: Or: 'inclined from the bottom up', or 'inclined from bottom to top'. But as Fiona suggests, one could interpret the source text quite differently. I imagine a little more context from asker (or client) would be helpful...
19 mins
neutral  Harry Borsje: most likely oriented at 45 degrees (as you can with cell contents in Excel), or possibly this field is used like e.g. DRAFT diagonally accross a whole page (as can be done in Acrobat); certainly NOT referring to italics
2 hrs
agree  FionaDV
5 hrs
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19 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
(again, the field) is in italics


Explanation:
:)

FionaDV
Germany
Local time: 07:40
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Dave Calderhead: forward leaning italics - a little redundancy here ;-{)>
7 mins
  -> thanks, Dave. they certainly want to be sure. :)
neutral  Jack den Haan: Please see my response to Willemina's suggestion, Fiona.
7 mins
  -> thanks, Jack. the source text is ambiguous indeed. :)
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
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Explanation:
IMO you should ask the client for clarification (preferably the diagram or printout that presumably forms the basis for this description).

The only thing I can imagine is that the data structure, in printed form, has the elements of the date field interleaved among other data elements (or possibly dummy data) such that it lies along an angled line relative to the rows and columns -- perhaps something like this:

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxDxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxDxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxMxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxMxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxYxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxYxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



Ken Cox
Local time: 07:40
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 28

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  FionaDV: runs diagonally from (the bottom up) as you wrote above
1 day9 hrs
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17 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
is at an upward/rsing angle again


Explanation:
Just another option to consider

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Note added at 17 hrs (2006-03-17 06:38:01 GMT)
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oops, that should be 'rising'

Louis Vorstermans
Australia
Local time: 15:40
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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