Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Jun 27, 2002 09:15
22 yrs ago
German term
United States
Segelschuh
German to English
Marketing
clothing c�talog
Description of shoes in a women's clothing catalog (no pictures):
Mocassin, spitze Form, silberne Segelschuhdetails
Obviously "sailing shoes" comes to mind, and there are lots entries under this in Google. However I also tend to think of "deck shoes" - which is a very common term in Am. English. I don't know if both or either of these would be the correct translation, however.
Does anyone have any qualified insight as to what Segelschuhe should officially be (Am. English)?
Mocassin, spitze Form, silberne Segelschuhdetails
Obviously "sailing shoes" comes to mind, and there are lots entries under this in Google. However I also tend to think of "deck shoes" - which is a very common term in Am. English. I don't know if both or either of these would be the correct translation, however.
Does anyone have any qualified insight as to what Segelschuhe should officially be (Am. English)?
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +4 | deck shoes |
LegalTrans D
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| 5 +3 | plymsols |
Jeannie Graham
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| 5 | Deck shoes |
Silke Peglow
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| 4 | boat shoes |
Anne Humphreys (X)
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Proposed translations
+4
10 mins
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Türkiye
Türkiye
Native in German
Türkiye
Commitment makes the best translations
Native in: German 
Works in: English to German, Persian (Farsi) to German
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551
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deck shoes
That's the way they are being offered in American mail order catalogs. Numerous Google hits.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you, my dears, I think this would be the best in an Am. Eng. catalog. I am not going to enter it in the glossary, however, because of lack of an official, authoritative reference."
+3
2 mins
Jeannie Graham
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
United Kingdom
Literary and medical translations
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, Persian (Farsi) to English, English, and 1 more.
Related KudoZ points
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256
plymsols
or tennis shoes
or just canvass shoes
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Note added at 2002-06-27 09:32:28 (GMT)
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MY suggestions are for UK English
or just canvass shoes
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Note added at 2002-06-27 09:32:28 (GMT)
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MY suggestions are for UK English
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Louise Mawbey
: Canvas shoes gets my vote
1 hr
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| agree |
Barbara Lawson
: canvas shoes
7 hrs
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| agree |
Sarah Downing
: canvas shoes, plimsolls reminds me of those ugly black shoes we had to wear for PE at school!:-)
15 hrs
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17 hrs
Deck shoes
Deck shoes would be the most common term used here.
22 hrs
boat shoes
Moccasin shape, with eyelets round the top and a lace threaded through - see the pictures at this site -
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