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English: commodified consumer

Italian translation: mercificato/trasformato in bene di consumo







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English term or phrase:commodified consumer
Italian translation:mercificato/trasformato in bene di consumo
Entered by:Raffaella Panigada
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English to Italian translations [PRO]
Marketing - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / Project description for major art exhibition
English term or phrase: commodified consumer
Come tradurreste "Commodified"
Tratto dalla descrizione del curatore di un'installazione di arte contemporanea.
"Left to watch and shiver, in a space that relieves the heat, we see the commodified consumer caught in a loop…frozen, cool"
Francesca
France
mercificato/trasformato in bene di consumo
Explanation:
Ci sarà una resa più elegante, ma "Commodify" significa "Treat as or turn into a commodity; commercialize" (WordWeb dictionary)

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Note added at 8 mins (2007-04-12 13:10:58 GMT)
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Scusa, ho dimenticato il resto della frase. Considerando il gioco di parole, io direi "il consumatore trasformato egli stesso in bene di consumo"
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Raffaella Panigada
Italy
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4 +7mercificato/trasformato in bene di consumo
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mercificato/trasformato in bene di consumo

Explanation:
Ci sarà una resa più elegante, ma "Commodify" significa "Treat as or turn into a commodity; commercialize" (WordWeb dictionary)

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Note added at 8 mins (2007-04-12 13:10:58 GMT)
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Scusa, ho dimenticato il resto della frase. Considerando il gioco di parole, io direi "il consumatore trasformato egli stesso in bene di consumo"

Raffaella Panigada
Italy
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Fiamma Lolli: mercificato è elegantissimo (o ignobile ma ineccepibile :-) - ah, ignobile la mercificazione, non la tua traduzione!!!
11 mins
  -> Grazie per la precisazione! (e per la risata)

agree Manuela Iotti
18 mins
  -> Grazie, Manuela.

agree laurettap: esatto!
26 mins
  -> Grazie! :-)

agree silvia b
1 hr
  -> Grazzzie!

agree Morena Nannetti
7 hrs
  -> Grazzzzzie!!!

agree Umberto Cassano
17 hrs
  -> Grazie anche a te, Umberto.

agree pataflo: :-)
23 hrs
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