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Italian translation: lunga serie

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English term or phrase:	laundry list
Italian translation:	lunga serie
Entered by:	Maria Emanuela Congia

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08:30 Jan 12, 2012

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Marketing - Marketing / Market Research

English term or phrase: laundry list

Other Best Practices to Consider

Performance Management / KPI’s
Will traffic / conversion be one of a laundry list of metrics?

Si tratta di una presentazione ppt. Secondo voi cosa s'intende per 'laundry list'? Uno dei tanti criteri di misurazione ?

Grazie anticipatamente,
Manuela:-)

Maria Emanuela Congia KudoZ activity Questions: 884 (4 open) (23 without valid answers) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 389 Italy
Local time: 03:40

lunga serie

Explanation:
Un suggerimento

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cinzia_t
Local time: 03:40

Grading comment

Essendo uina presentazione ppt, il testo doveva essere il + possibile conciso e immediato, a costo di sacrificare un po' il contenuto: ecco perché alla fine ho scelto di lasciare la mia interpretazione iniziale ("uno dei tanti criteri di misurazione"). Grazie cmq del vostro aiuto !
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Summary of answers provided

4 +7

lungo elenco/lista infinita; "lista della spesa"

Silvia Pellacani

3 +2

lunga serie

cinzia_t

4 +1

lista della spesa

Sara Bigini

Answers

28 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

lista della spesa

Explanation:
Secondo il Concide Oxford English Dictionary, a laundry list is a long or exhaustive list. Su questi link viene tradotto o come "lista della spesa" o come "lunghissima lista".

http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=311108

http://it.bab.la/dizionario/inglese-italiano/laundry

Reference: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=311108
Reference: http://it.bab.la/dizionario/inglese-italiano/laundry

Sara Bigini
France
Local time: 03:40
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Italian
PRO pts in category: 12

44 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

lunga serie

Explanation:
Un suggerimento

cinzia_t
Local time: 03:40
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Italian
PRO pts in category: 8

Grading comment

20 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +7

lungo elenco/lista infinita; "lista della spesa"

Explanation:
(idiomatic, by extension) A long and often tedious list of items. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/laundry_list

laundry list (fig. USA) lista lunga e dettagliata [Ragazzini]

laundry list (slang, US) lungo elenco, lista infinita http://dizionari.hoepli.it/Dizionario_Inglese-Italiano/parol...

laundry list, (fig. fam.amer.) elenco lungo e particolareggiato http://www.sapere.it/sapere/search.html?tipo_traduzione=Ingl...

"laundry list" "lista della spesa" http://www.google.it/search?q="laundry list" "lista della sp...

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"meglio avere poche metriche buone (se ne può avere anche una sola molto buona, che può essere influenzata da fonti diverse) piuttosto che una **lunga lista di metriche** di qualità inferiore" (p.23) http://www.aiea.it/pdf/download/CobiT-41-Italian.pdf [in fondo al documento c'è anche un glossario]

Silvia Pellacani
Italy
Local time: 03:40
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Italian
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Danila Moro: direi lungo elenco o elenco infinito

1 hr

-> ciao Danila, grazie :) sì, anche "elenco infinito", non ci avevo pensato

agree

Sara Negro

7 hrs

-> ciao Sara, grazie :)

agree

Roberta Durante: Salve io sono una ragazza di madre lingua inglese e secondo me laundry list in questo caso andrebbe tradotto come una lista complessa contenente diverse e molteplici forme di misurazioni metriche quindi sono d'accordo anche se con qualche precisazione :)

7 hrs

-> grazie Roberta :)

agree

Federica Mei

8 hrs

-> grazie Fede :)

agree

Zerlina

9 hrs

-> grazie Zerlina :)

agree

AdamiAkaPataflo: mi associo :-)

1 day39 mins

-> grazie Simona :))

agree

enrico paoletti

1 day10 hrs

-> grazie Enrico :)

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Jan 12 - Changes made by Tom in London:
Language pair	Italian to English => English to Italian

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