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Sports / Fitness / Recreation | | English term or phrase: power cords | | Skiing term. Strips of fabric attached to bindings so you can find a ski that has submerged under snow after you've fallen. Is there a Dutch term? |
| Emma RaultKudoZ activityQuestions: 140 ( 6 open) ( 5 closed without grading) Answers: 0
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| | Dutch translation:(lawine)lintjes / skischoenlint | Explanation:
Looks like a typo to me. These are called powDer cords (with a D) ... either that or powder leashes / ski leashes / powdertrace.
http://www.powdercordpouch.com/faqs
http://www.ehow.com/how_2165049_use-powder-cords-deep-snow.h...
Literally you could go with "poederkoord" as I previously was about to suggest, but... that didn't sit well with me. Hence the retraction and new suggestion.
I was thinking more along the lines of a "lint(je)"... ski-lint, skischoenlint, poederlint, herkenningslint... and eventually came across one ski forum where they indeed refer to these types of "lintjes": http://www.snownet.be/forum_topic_view.php?topic=5958
I then crossreferenced "skischoen" and "lint" and came up with "lawinelint"
Although it technically has nothing to do with avalanches, the concept is the same, and Wikipedia states that variants of these are used to find lost skis (see reference).
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Note added at 17 hrs (2009-12-21 15:56:38 GMT)
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Depending on the color of the ones in question for your translation, you could refer to them as "fluolintjes", since these things are *usually* brightly colored for easy spotting. |
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Local time: 16:11
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17 hrs confidence:  peer agreement (net): +1 (lawine)lintjes / skischoenlint
Explanation:
Looks like a typo to me. These are called powDer cords (with a D) ... either that or powder leashes / ski leashes / powdertrace.
http://www.powdercordpouch.com/faqs
http://www.ehow.com/how_2165049_use-powder-cords-deep-snow.h...
Literally you could go with "poederkoord" as I previously was about to suggest, but... that didn't sit well with me. Hence the retraction and new suggestion.
I was thinking more along the lines of a "lint(je)"... ski-lint, skischoenlint, poederlint, herkenningslint... and eventually came across one ski forum where they indeed refer to these types of "lintjes": http://www.snownet.be/forum_topic_view.php?topic=5958
I then crossreferenced "skischoen" and "lint" and came up with "lawinelint"
Although it technically has nothing to do with avalanches, the concept is the same, and Wikipedia states that variants of these are used to find lost skis (see reference).
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Note added at 17 hrs (2009-12-21 15:56:38 GMT)
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Depending on the color of the ones in question for your translation, you could refer to them as "fluolintjes", since these things are *usually* brightly colored for easy spotting.
Reference: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawinelint
| Bryan Crumpler
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