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L'essayer c'est l'adopter !

English translation: Try it and buy it!

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French term or phrase:	L'essayer c'est l'adopter !
English translation:	Try it and buy it!
Entered by:	C.A.Joseph

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12:38 Jan 28, 2009

French to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Advertising / Public Relations

French term or phrase: L'essayer c'est l'adopter !

Hi all,
A quite common baseline in French to be used for a product. In this case a printer.
I've come up with "Try it! Embrace it!". What do you say?
Any other suggestions?

Thanks a million!

CAJ

C.A.Joseph KudoZ activity Questions: 91 (1 open) Answers: 139
Local time: 23:28

If you try it, you will buy it!

Explanation:
Another option

Selected response from:

Terry Richards
France
Local time: 23:28

Grading comment

Try it and buy it!
I'll buy into this one :-)
Thanks to all of you !!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +6

If you try it, you will buy it!

Terry Richards

4 +2

Try it, and you'll go / fall for it!

Tony M

try and buy

swanda

3 +2

Try it, you'll buy it!

helena barham

Try it! You'll like it!

simon till

To try it is to buy it.

Anton Baer

Trial is to get it

KRAT

Once you tried it, you'll never look back!

Glen McCulley

Try it - buy it!

Andrew Fanko

Buying after a test must be the best !

Lingua 5B

Try it and you'll see why it's the best

americaninparis

Once tried, forever smitten

ArabellaCE

Love at first try// The printer you can't resist

polyglot45

Try before you buy

Marian Vieyra

Answers

2 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

If you try it, you will buy it!

Explanation:
Another option

Terry Richards
France
Local time: 23:28
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Try it and buy it!
I'll buy into this one :-)
Thanks to all of you !!

3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

Try it, and you'll go / fall for it!

Explanation:
Needs to be up-beat and positive

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Note added at 4 mins (2009-01-28 12:43:21 GMT)
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Actually, Terry's alliteration is so good, I'd be inclined to say "Try it — you'll buy it!"

Tony M
France
Local time: 23:28
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 51

10 mins confidence:

Once you tried it, you'll never look back!

Explanation:
longish maybe, but that'd be my take... you can even replace 'it' with the printer name if it's succinct enough

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Note added at 12 mins (2009-01-28 12:50:44 GMT)
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"once tried, forever smitten" is more succinct, but... I dunno, something grieves me with that option ;-/

Glen McCulley
France
Local time: 23:28
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

French

18 mins confidence:

Love at first try// The printer you can't resist

Explanation:
for a little more originality

polyglot45
Native speaker of:

English,

French
PRO pts in category: 32

20 mins confidence:

Buying after a test must be the best !

Explanation:

another possibility.

Lingua 5B
Local time: 23:28
Native speaker of:

Serbian,

Croatian

31 mins confidence:

Try it and you'll see why it's the best

Explanation:
Not only will you buy it, you will be convinced that it offers more than the competition.

americaninparis
France
Local time: 23:28
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English

44 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

Try it, you'll buy it!

Explanation:
yet another idea!!

helena barham
France
Local time: 23:28
Works in field
Native speaker of: English

52 mins confidence:

Try before you buy

Explanation:
Again, Terry planted the seed, but the phrase needs to be shorter in English.

Marian Vieyra
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:28
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 8

1 hr confidence:

L\'essayer c\'est l\'adopter ! Try it - buy it!

Explanation:
Or maybe "Try it. Buy it!"

Very similar to what has already been suggested, but even snappier in true advertising style :-)

Andrew Fanko
Local time: 22:28
Native speaker of:

English

1 hr confidence:

try and buy

Explanation:
grand dictionnaire terminologique

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Note added at 1 hr (2009-01-28 14:15:10 GMT)
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http://www.granddictionnaire.com/btml/fra/r_motclef/index102...

swanda
Local time: 23:28
Works in field
Native speaker of:

French

1 hr confidence:

Try it! You'll like it!

Explanation:
Only another variation... which some of you might remember from a big TV ad some years back

Reference: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/19/business/media/19adco.html...

simon till
Local time: 23:28
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English

2 hrs confidence:

To try it is to buy it.

Explanation:
It surprises me to see such contortions merely to avoid a literal translation.
Secondly, avoid exclamation marks. Don't shout. Be confident in the message.
Thirdly, take advantage of the parallel with 'To know her/him is to love her/him.'

From someone who hates advertising.

Anton Baer
Slovakia
Local time: 23:28
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English

1 day9 hrs confidence:

Once tried, forever smitten

Explanation:
one more for the pot....

ArabellaCE
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:28
Native speaker of: English

1 day15 hrs confidence:

Trial is to get it

Explanation:
To ''adopt it''=to get it..in general terms

KRAT
Local time: 00:28
Native speaker of: Creek

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