Wir bekennen uns zu einem uncodierten Zeugnis

English translation: We do not encrypt/code" our references for employees

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German term or phrase:	Wir bekennen uns zu einem uncodierten Zeugnis
English translation:	We do not encrypt/code" our references for employees
Entered by:	Jeff Whittaker

21:48 Jan 11, 2002

German to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Human Resources

German term or phrase: Wir bekennen uns zu einem uncodierten Zeugnis

Wir bekennen uns zu einem uncodierten Zeugnis.

?We declare our support for an uncoded certificate?
?We support uncoded certificates/documents?

From a letter of recommendation written in Switzerland.

Jeff Whittaker KudoZ activity Questions: 267 (none open) (18 closed without grading) Answers: 278 United States
Local time: 09:13

"We do not encrypt/code" our references for employees

Explanation:
I think "Zeugnis" should be translated not as "certificate" but in the sense of "employer's reference" which perfectly covers what Maya meant by her explanation. IMO, it means that they intend to frankly write what they think of their employees so that you do not have to read between the lines to find some hidden sense. Such references are pretty common nowadays.

Selected response from:

Steffen Pollex (X)
Local time: 15:13

Grading comment

Thank you, that's perfect. I could not understood what they meant by "coded" or "uncoded" and/or if this was something specific to letters of reference.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +6

"We do not encrypt/code" our references for employees

Steffen Pollex (X)

Wie do not code employees' certificates

Maya Jurt

Answers

7 mins confidence:

Wie do not code employees' certificates

Explanation:
That is what it means, despite the flowery "declare our support for" (bekennen).

And I thinks you are talking about certificates for employees.

HTH, but I changed your question from German (monolingual) to German-English. That way, more people may give you an opinion.

Maya Jurt
Switzerland
Local time: 15:13
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

German,

French
PRO pts in category: 4

15 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

"We do not encrypt/code" our references for employees

Steffen Pollex (X)
Local time: 15:13
Works in field
Native speaker of:

German,

Russian
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Thank you, that's perfect. I could not understood what they meant by "coded" or "uncoded" and/or if this was something specific to letters of reference.

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

agree

Sven Petersson

1 min

-> Thank you

agree

Maya Jurt: perfect

7 mins

-> Not really, Susan's is better style.

agree

Kim Metzger: Outstanding.

14 mins

-> Just one of the possibilities...

agree

Susan Starling: good explanation, but I don't think your English sentence would be understood in that sense. Maybe something like "We do not use coded language in our letters of recommendation."

23 mins

-> This is some better English style, of course. Sorry, no native British and was kind of in a hurry.

agree

Hans-Henning Judek

29 mins

-> Thank you

agree

Marcus Malabad: good explanation, Steffen, but consider Susan's point as well

34 mins

-> I did as you see from my comment above. I would have used Susan's one for better style.

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