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電飾広告

English translation: Illuminated Advertising (Sign)


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Japanese term or phrase:電飾広告
English translation:Illuminated Advertising (Sign)
Entered by: Shannon Morales
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18:08 Jul 13, 2006
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Marketing - Advertising / Public Relations / Advertising medium
Japanese term or phrase: 電飾広告
This refers to the lights that Lindbergh saw on arriving in Paris -- I found that it was an ad by automaker Citroen, apparently the name CITROEN spelled out in lights on the Eiffel Tower. But what can I call it?
Shannon Morales
Local time: 08:51
Illuminated Advertising (Sign)
Explanation:
'publicité' in French is 'advertising' in English (Thanks to wilmatters link!)

See:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=illuminated advertis...

HTH :)
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torut
Local time: 15:51
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2Illuminated Advertising (Sign)torut
4 +1Illuminated publicity signWill Matter
4Neon SignsKoumoto


  

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Illuminated publicity sign


Explanation:
This is the phrase that the link i've provided uses, one possible choice.


    Reference: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Tour_Eiffel_Citroen....
Will Matter
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Local time: 06:51
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Illuminated Advertising (Sign)


Explanation:
'publicité' in French is 'advertising' in English (Thanks to wilmatters link!)

See:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=illuminated advertis...

HTH :)

torut
Local time: 15:51
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Native speaker of: Native in JapaneseJapanese
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agree  casey: Yeah, if it's for a company it should be "advertising"
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agree  Huntington: Although, just 'Illuminated sign' would be OK, too.
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Neon Signs


Explanation:
Literal transalation is Electric advertisements but the new technology is termed as neon signs/boards

Koumoto
Local time: 22:51
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Native speaker of: Native in JapaneseJapanese, Native in EnglishEnglish
Notes to answerer
Asker: This was my 1st thought, but I'm not sure it's the same thing... (?)

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