Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Flüchtigkeitsfehler
English translation:
oversight / casual error
German term
Flüchtigkeitsfehler
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| 4 +7 | silly mistake |
David Hollywood
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| 4 +4 | careless error |
Lancashireman
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Aug 14, 2006 12:08: Lancashireman changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
Aug 14, 2006 14:35: Marcus Malabad changed "Field" from "Other" to "Art/Literary" , "Field (specific)" from "Other" to "Printing & Publishing"
PRO (3): Сергей Лузан, David Hollywood, Lancashireman
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Proposed translations
worked for int. orgs (IMF, OAS, IDB)
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, German to English
silly mistake
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Note added at 13 mins (2006-08-14 11:26:31 GMT)
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or: "oversight" in a more formal context
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Note added at 14 mins (2006-08-14 11:27:56 GMT)
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would definitely go for something like "oversight" or "casual error"
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Note added at 15 mins (2006-08-14 11:28:40 GMT)
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But when a piece of mathematics has been revised, and has been before the expert world for some time, the chance of a casual error is almost negligible. ...
www.hyattcarter.com/mathematics-thought.htm - 47k - Cached - Similar pages
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Darin Fitzpatrick
: "Casual error" is great for the general case. You might want to be more specific sometimes; maybe use a note like "agreement" or "article."
1 hr
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sylvie malich (X)
: I go for oversight
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JSolis
: casual error
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Brigitte Albert (X)
: with sylvie: oversight
3 hrs
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| agree |
Rebecca Garber
: oversight
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nic456
: oversight
4 hrs
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Teresa Reinhardt
: oversight; "silly mistake" would be offensive in the US
6 hrs
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careless error
There should be an equivalent phrase to get across the idea of 'haste/hasty'.
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Do you want AE or BE? The reason for this query is that there is a strong (Transatlantic?) vote coming in for a word that in UK has a much broader meaning than your context requires.
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Julia Lipeles
8 mins
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Thomas Bollmann
1 hr
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Isla
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Ingeborg Gowans (X)
8 hrs
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Discussion
What I'm thinking of isn't a typo since it was (probably) typed correctly when it was written - it was just not changed later on with the rest of the sentence.
I guess next time the question arises, I'll use casual error or oversight, and keep in mind what you said about BE and AE.
Thank you, everybody! (c: