tangue de bois
English translation: fobbed him off with management cliches
| 20:59 Apr 7, 2004 |
| French to English translations [PRO] Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general) | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Peter Freckleton Australia Local time: 20:32 | ||||||
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| 4 +5 | doublespeak |
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| 4 +1 | set language |
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| 3 +1 | fobbed him off with management cliches |
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peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1set language Explanation: It has to be langue de bois. The company used set language (stereotyped formal language, accodring to Robert Collins)... LANGUE DE BOIS / Set language: NOMENCLATURES / families of terms; CORRÉLATS ... Conversation; EXPRESSION/Expression; Phrase; FORMEL / Formal; IDIOLECTE/Idiolect; ... www.ditl.info/lex/lexico.php?term=7348 - 4k |
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| The asker has declined this answer Comment: thanks, quite right, but another answer is more inventive & colloquial | ||
5 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +5
peer agreement (net): +5doublespeak Explanation: it is langue de bois -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 10 mins (2004-04-07 21:09:31 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- also: set language - stereotyped formal language - political cant Domaine(s) : - politique français anglais langue de bois n. f. set language Définition : Discours figé, constitué de formules toutes faites, stéréotypées, associé à la propagande politique et décodable seulement par des initiés. Note(s) : Dans la langue courante, ce terme est employé pour désigner une façon de s\'exprimer figée et stéréotypée, et il est généralement perçu comme étant péjoratif. Le terme serait, à l\'origine, un calque du polonais. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Office de la langue française, 2002] -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 12 mins (2004-04-07 21:11:21 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Doublespeak. ... Doublespeak is language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning; often resulting a \"communication bypass\". ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak - 17k |
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