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German to English translations [PRO] Marketing - Textiles / Clothing / Fashion / Colour of clothing
German term or phrase:Schilf (grün)
Here's a KudoZ where everyone can be creative and relax, just picture a colour in your mind.... :-)
"Ein urbanes Safarithema in Schilf und Rot."
"An urban safari theme in ..... and red."
This is from a fashion catalogue. I know the translation "reed green", but don't think it sounds English enough.
I was also considering "pale khaki", though wonder if that is of a more yellow tone...
Does anyone have any better ideas, or would you go with one of the above?
Many thanks in advance!
type of document/situation in which the term appears - Fashion catalogue
country and dialect - Germany, Hochdeutsch
target audience/country - international customers of this brand, through the mail order catalogue.
specific context (the source sentence or paragraph where the term occurs) - see above
any reference URLs, translations you are considering, etc. - see above
Thanks, Amimami. As the discussion confirms, this was the conclusion I came to on my own as well - but that shouldn't spare you the points, more, it is an additional agree, alongside the one WML effectively gave in the discussion.
Thanks for allowing me to write light olive with confidence!
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I went with light olive in the end, by my own reckoning (and using that html colours guide). Then I saw you had come to the same conclusion Amimami.
On the client's website I eventually found all manner of greens, although again, no consistent translation. I found olive quite a lot, as well as "thyme", which I quite liked. None of these things bar perhaps light olive pass the "google images" test, though, of matching the same sort of colours as for "schilf".
I think 'light olive' might work well. I also found 'bay leaf', 'peat moss' or 'sage' (probably too much greyish-blue in this one). 'Khaki' to me also seems to be more of a yellow tone.
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or "pastel green"
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my first idea is to be ignored
David Hollywood Local time: 13:45 Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 70
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks for your effort... I think it is a bit more dull than that though, see: http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&rlz=1C1RNPN_enGB409GB409&q=schilf+mode&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1920&bih=950
Beatrice A. Local time: 18:45 Specializes in field Native speaker of: German PRO pts in category: 4
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Thanks, Amimami. As the discussion confirms, this was the conclusion I came to on my own as well - but that shouldn't spare you the points, more, it is an additional agree, alongside the one WML effectively gave in the discussion.
Thanks for allowing me to write light olive with confidence!
:-)
Ramey Rieger Local time: 18:45 Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 12
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks for sharing your vision with us! I am going to choose another answer, though, as the colour of items on the Google images search seem a closer match.
Explanation: Sedge green certainly sounds English. To my eye, jasmine has more blue in it.
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For what it's worth, I got 'sedge' from Hohennadel, A Modern Textile Dictionary D>E.
Dan Cooper Local time: 11:45 Native speaker of: English
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks for your suggestion. I am going to choose another answer, though, as the colour of items on the Google images search seem a closer match.
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