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English translation: not just any old lawnmower

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16:18 Nov 4, 2010

Italian to English translations [Non-PRO]
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Italian term or phrase: non uno qualsiasi

Questo è un rasaerba intellingente, non uno qualsiasi.

Si tratta di una presentazione per un meeting con tutti gli importatori di rasaerba robot.
Questa presentazione si chiude con lo slogan sopra.

grazie dei consigli

Romina Minucci KudoZ activity Questions: 990 (6 open) (2 closed without grading) Answers: 1084 Italy
Local time: 19:57

English translation:not just any old lawnmower

Explanation:
Or:
A lawnmower with a (big) difference
A lawnmower unlike any other
Not your normal lawnmower
Take your pick!

Selected response from:

philgoddard
Local time: 12:57

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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +8

not just any old lawnmower

philgoddard

4 +4

not the common or garden variety

Oliver Lawrence

This is not a lawnmower, this is the smart thing.

luskie

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +8

not just any old lawnmower

Explanation:
Or:
A lawnmower with a (big) difference
A lawnmower unlike any other
Not your normal lawnmower
Take your pick!

philgoddard
Local time: 12:57
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Selected automatically based on peer agreement.

6 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

not the common or garden variety

Explanation:
an idiomatic phrase that also evokes the lawnmower-garden theme :)

Oliver Lawrence
Italy
Local time: 19:57
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 59

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

neutral

Colin Rowe: Nice idea, but it does rather make it sound as though you couldn't/wouldn't use it in a garden!

4 mins

-> IMHO the metaphor is far enough from the literal meaning not to confuse potential customers :)

agree

philgoddard: Actually I like this for the very reason that Colin mentions! Maybe "not your common or garden lawnmower".

59 mins

-> thanks Phil, like it :)

agree

Ernestine Shargool: I like Phil’s variation… Yes, it’s convolutedly self-referential but perhaps there’s a bonus in stimulating the “circles that you find in the windmills of your mind"…

7 hrs

neutral

James (Jim) Davis: Phil's tran really hits it on the nail, while this sort of beats around the dare I say bushes in the garden.

14 hrs

agree

Kari Foster: I liked this straight away; the sceptics might find that it grows on them too

15 hrs

agree

Thomas Roberts: Nice to see someone grasped the nettle and offered a more refined phrase.

18 hrs

1 day17 hrs confidence:

Questo è un rasaerba intellingente, non uno qualsiasi. This is not a lawnmower, this is the smart thing.

Explanation:
io farei così

luskie
Local time: 19:57
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Italian
PRO pts in category: 61

Voters for reclassification
as
PRO / non-PRO

Non-PRO (3): rfmoon, James (Jim) Davis, Thomas Roberts

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Changes made by editors

Nov 5, 2010 - Changes made by Thomas Roberts:
Level	PRO => Non-PRO

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