English to German translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Telecom(munications) / Mobile Phone Features
English term or phrase:conversational
"Allows for a conversational chat-like user experience with a single contact list for the most personal mobile-to-mobile communications"
How could one render "conversational" here? Is it maybe "dialogorientiert" or "interaktiv"? Then again, I guess any use of sms/texting is interactive, and this is supposed to be a special feature...
Explanation: Generic service: a conversational, messaging, retrieval or group service directly usable by a large number of users, which provides common tools for development and implementation of applications, whilst aiding their interoperability.
Englisch: europa.eu/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/l24226e.htm
Basisdienst: ein Dienst (dialogorientiert, Nachrichtenübermittlung, Datenbankabfrage oder Groupware) zur direkten Nutzung durch eine große Zahl von Benutzern, der gemeinsame Werkzeuge für die Entwicklung und Umsetzung von Anwendungen bereitstellt und deren Interoperabilität erleichtert.
Deutsch: europa.eu/scadplus/leg/de/lvb/l24226e.htm
Hello ArnoTranslates, you are most definitely not dense! ;-) Your question is totally valid. I do apologise for the lack of context. I don't have much more, but should have added earlier that this is about sms/texting, not speaking on the phone. The entry comes under "enhanced sms experience".
Maybe I'm dense, but it would help me to know what it is that allows communications to be more conversational. Neither dialogorientiert nor interaktiv sound like any unique adjective for a conversation. So, how are these conversations held differently from others?
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dialogorientiert
Explanation: Generic service: a conversational, messaging, retrieval or group service directly usable by a large number of users, which provides common tools for development and implementation of applications, whilst aiding their interoperability.
Englisch: europa.eu/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/l24226e.htm
Basisdienst: ein Dienst (dialogorientiert, Nachrichtenübermittlung, Datenbankabfrage oder Groupware) zur direkten Nutzung durch eine große Zahl von Benutzern, der gemeinsame Werkzeuge für die Entwicklung und Umsetzung von Anwendungen bereitstellt und deren Interoperabilität erleichtert.
Deutsch: europa.eu/scadplus/leg/de/lvb/l24226e.htm
Gudrun Wolfrath Germany Local time: 02:52 Native speaker of: German PRO pts in category: 4
Explanation: (1) Pertaining to an SNA conversation or a dialog between two programs.
(2) Pertaining to a program or a system that carries on a dialog with a terminal user, alternately receiving and transmitting data. See also pseudoconversational:
(1) In BTS, the way in which an activity can be reattached ("reactivated") when a predefined event occurs, in order to take the next in a set of processing steps. See also activation.
(2) A type of CICS application design that appears to the user as a continuous conversation, but that consists internally of multiple tasks. See also conversational.
Mustafa Er (BSc MA) Turkey Local time: 03:52 Specializes in field Native speaker of: Turkish, English
Explanation: now that we know it is texting, simultan emphasizes the non-sequential nature of this way of communicating (if I understand it right). If you think it is an overpromise, you could water it down to quasi-simultan.
A colloquial idiom could then be coined, like Simultanquatsch :)
(I find the dialogorientiert too socio-intellectual for a fun product, and interaktiv too inspecific--isn't normal texting interactive already?
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@ Intrans, re your note: I am afraid you have a point with the synchronicity (or rather non-synchronicity). That is what I was thinking of too when I added the quasi-simultan.
Good idea to double-check with the client on what it really does.
ArnoTranslates United States Local time: 18:52 Native speaker of: German
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Asker: Thank you, ArnoTranslates. I understand what you're saying about the connotations of "dialogorientiert" and I agree any communication between two people is interactive. Not too sure about "simultan" though. Are they really just trying to say it happens at the same time, ie simultaneously? The more I think about it, the more I find that "chat-like" (chat-artig?) includes all these aspects and I don't see what else "conversational" is supposed to convey. Guess I'll have to check with the customer. Thanks again.
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