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English translation: use your imagination

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Swedish term or phrase:	tänka fritt
English translation:	use your imagination
Entered by:	Tomasz Sienicki

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08:59 Nov 14, 2007

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Marketing - Marketing / Market Research / focus groups

Swedish term or phrase: tänka fritt

A marketing analyst is asking a group of respondents to think about a particular type of behaviour in the future "Om ni tänker fritt, vilken roll kommer xxx att ha....etc""

Russell Mattinson KudoZ activity Questions: 233 (1 open) (12 without valid answers) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 5
Local time: 05:13

use your imagination

Explanation:
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Selected response from:

Tomasz Sienicki
Denmark
Local time: 05:13

Grading comment

This was the one I used! Thanks :)
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

3 +2

let one's thoughts wander freely

Sven Petersson

4 +1

allow/give your thoughts free rein

xxxE2efour

think outside the box

Peter Linton

3 +1

use your imagination

Tomasz Sienicki

keep an open mind

Don Spade

reflect freely

Transcrit

Brainstorm

Translator8

Answers

12 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

let one's thoughts wander freely

Explanation:
:o)

Sven Petersson
Sweden
Local time: 05:13
Native speaker of:

Swedish,

English
PRO pts in category: 39

1 hr confidence:

keep an open mind

Explanation:
This might fit your context.

Don Spade
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 20

1 hr confidence:

reflect freely

Explanation:
or "free reflection" even

Transcrit
Local time: 05:13
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

2 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

use your imagination

Explanation:
...

Tomasz Sienicki
Denmark
Local time: 05:13
Native speaker of:

Polish
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

This was the one I used! Thanks :)

3 hrs confidence:

Brainstorm

Explanation:
Brainstorming is a group creativity technique designed to generate a large number of ideas to obtain a solution to a problem.

Translator8
Local time: 04:13
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Swedish

4 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

allow/give your thoughts free rein

Explanation:
An alternative expression.

Reference: http://books.google.com/books?id=DHSHs2lDa-EC&pg=PA40&lpg=PA...

xxxE2efour
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:13
Native speaker of:

English

1 day5 hrs confidence:

think outside the box

Explanation:
Lots of good suugestions, but I think a marketing analyst would use a phrase like this, which is very idiomatic, modern and fashionable.

Good Wikipedia explanation -- see ref.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outside_the_box

Peter Linton
Local time: 04:13
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 30

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Nov 28, 2007 - Changes made by Tomasz Sienicki:
Created KOG entry	KudoZ term => KOG term

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