for voters to familiarize with them

English translation: for voters to familiarize themselves with them

17:31 Feb 9, 2012

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English term or phrase: for voters to familiarize with them

Hello everyone,

The Central Election Commission ensures the production of posters with the biographical data of the candidates **for voters to familiarize with them**.

I'm wondering if "for voters to familiarize with them" is a good English or should I rephrase it?
The intended meaning is so that voters can familiarize with them.

Thank you.

Mikhail Korolev KudoZ activity Questions: 2414 (1 open) (10 closed without grading) Answers: 130
Local time: 15:40

Selected answer:for voters to familiarize *themselves* with them

Explanation:
one way of phrasing it

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Note added at 17 hrs (2012-02-10 11:30:36 GMT)
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A few alternative options:

enabling voters to find out (more) about them

to provide voters with information about them

to inform voters about them

or, as lorenab23 suggests in the discussion, one could also use "learn about"

Selected response from:

Colin Rowe
Germany
Local time: 14:40

Grading comment

Many thanks to everyone.
Thank you, Colin.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

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for voters to familiarize *themselves* with them

Colin Rowe

Discussion entries: 2

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2 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +7

is this phrase a good english?

for voters to familiarize *themselves* with them

Colin Rowe
Germany
Local time: 14:40
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 12

Grading comment

Many thanks to everyone.
Thank you, Colin.

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

agree

Veronika McLaren

4 mins

-> Thanks!

agree

AllegroTrans: this works well; however Asker needs to ask him/herself whether proofreading of text by a native EN-speaker is advisable here

7 mins

-> Thanks! As you say below, this is about "familiarization with" the candidates, not "getting to know" them personally. Moreover, it is clearly closer to what the original writer was actually trying to say.

agree

TrueBaller

20 mins

-> Thanks!

agree

B D Finch

31 mins

-> Thanks!

agree

Tony M: For this part of the sentence, fine; but the translation proposed contains very many other errors, which renders the point made by A/T all the more apposite.

4 hrs

-> Thanks!

agree

Oceanwide

7 hrs

-> Thanks!

agree

Phong Le

1 day 5 hrs

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