German: "würde"voll redenEnglish translation: speaking suggestively 
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Marketing - Marketing / Market Research | | German term or phrase: "würde"voll reden | part of a presentation of a new software tool for negotiation techniques
Hypothesen-Technik - "würde"voll reden
Spielen Sie mit Annahmen. Durch Hypothesenfragen oder Konjuktiv-Aussagen betritt man neues Terrain und startet Versuchsballons.
Gesprächsumsetzung:
Angenommen, ich würde heute noch...
Vorausgesetzt, die Lieferung käme...
würdevoll in this context has nothing to do with gracefully or dignified. Thank you for creative suggestions on a Saturday! |
| | Clarification request(s) and responseChristine Lam: 5:23pm Jan 13, 2007: thanks, Ken and Suzie. Although I don´t have an aversion, I find it quite tricky to get the point across adequately - technical texts do seem easier in that respect.
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| | speaking suggestively | Explanation:
Maybe that has enough of a double entendre for your text.
Personally, I have a nearly pathological aversion to this sort of 'cute' language. |
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 Ken Cox
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| speaking suggestively
Explanation:
Maybe that has enough of a double entendre for your text.
Personally, I have a nearly pathological aversion to this sort of 'cute' language.
| Ken Cox
Netherlands
Native speaker of:  English
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| lead with a best-case scenario
Explanation:
What it boils down to. This is OK in a business setting, so you could definitely use it if you don't get anything more creative.
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| würde voll reden talking assumptions
Explanation:
Maybe a bit colloquial, but I think this is a nice alternative...
examples:
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Honestly, if you don't know his record than we are only talking assumptions. ...
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So we're talking assumptions. Here's an example of one planned change. In SE we assume that travel must be done only between Warp Points. ...
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| Nesrin
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Native speaker of: Arabic
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