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Science - Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs / diplomas etc. | | German term or phrase: Für die Gesamtleistung wird das Prädikat summa cum laude erteilt | Übersetzung einer Promotionsurkunde für das Fach Mathematik.
My idea:
The total achievement was awarded summa cum laude honors.
(sounds a bit weird). |
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| | For overall achievement, the predidate summa cum laude is bestowed | Explanation:
This answer is based on formulating a few of the more grandiloquent possible translations, and testing for their actual occurrence with Google searches.
Grandiloquence befits the pomp and circumstance with which academics invest themselves. Objectively speaking, they wallow in it on certain ritual occasions, such as conferring degrees. It is their way of showing esteem for one another, no more or less ridiculous than bowing to one's opponent in karate.
Grand things are not merely awarded, they are magnanimously "bestowed" -- or better yet, "conferred", which is a wonderful word for the simple fact that "bestowed" is used to define it.
Both conferred and bestowed do occur in the wild, in the context of Latin honors.
Performance is a pedestrian metric for shoe salesmen. Achievement suggests that some Olympian height has been scaled. Summa is after all the highest, and cognate to summit. Summits are achieved.
Consider the tale of Brummie Stokes: "During a British Army expedition to Everest in 1976 he achieved the summit along with fellow SAS colleague Bronco Lane. Stokes lost all his toes and part of each foot to ..." etc.
Predicate does in fact occur in English as part of the ritual flourish, "the predicate summa cum laude". It has the warm glow of obfuscation.
As for the word order, one must first rattle off the reasons for the gift, and then bestow it. Hence, "For overall achievement, the predicate summa cum laude is bestowed".
I am, if it were not obvious by now, not a subject expert. But it could be a valid translation for all that. |
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 awarded the hono(u)r summa cum laude for outstanding overall achievement
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Edward (Ted) Erker, Honors Candidate, Outstanding Overall Achievement in Environmental ... Edward (Ted) Erker, Summa Cum Laude, Biology/Ecology ...
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Latin honors of summa cum laude, magna cum laude, and cum laude recognize ... honors by their concentration who are not awarded the degree summa cum ... and will have outstanding overall records of achievement, including at least two ...
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +3 For overall achievement, the predidate summa cum laude is bestowed
Explanation:
This answer is based on formulating a few of the more grandiloquent possible translations, and testing for their actual occurrence with Google searches.
Grandiloquence befits the pomp and circumstance with which academics invest themselves. Objectively speaking, they wallow in it on certain ritual occasions, such as conferring degrees. It is their way of showing esteem for one another, no more or less ridiculous than bowing to one's opponent in karate.
Grand things are not merely awarded, they are magnanimously "bestowed" -- or better yet, "conferred", which is a wonderful word for the simple fact that "bestowed" is used to define it.
Both conferred and bestowed do occur in the wild, in the context of Latin honors.
Performance is a pedestrian metric for shoe salesmen. Achievement suggests that some Olympian height has been scaled. Summa is after all the highest, and cognate to summit. Summits are achieved.
Consider the tale of Brummie Stokes: "During a British Army expedition to Everest in 1976 he achieved the summit along with fellow SAS colleague Bronco Lane. Stokes lost all his toes and part of each foot to ..." etc.
Predicate does in fact occur in English as part of the ritual flourish, "the predicate summa cum laude". It has the warm glow of obfuscation.
As for the word order, one must first rattle off the reasons for the gift, and then bestow it. Hence, "For overall achievement, the predicate summa cum laude is bestowed".
I am, if it were not obvious by now, not a subject expert. But it could be a valid translation for all that.
Reference: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/confer
Reference: http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22predicate+summa+cum+laude
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