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Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

auffe breddln und owe wedln

English translation:

up slope on your boards, sweep down swinging

Added to glossary by Horst Huber (X)
Oct 11, 2011 21:45
12 yrs ago
German term

auffe breddln und owe wedln

German to English Other Idioms / Maxims / Sayings Skiing / life in the Alps
This is a heading in a marketing brochure for an Austrian Alpine hotel, with the tagline "Das ist Skivergnügen pur." Can anyone familiar with Austrian dialect offer a German or even English translation?! I gather wedeln is even used in English among skiers - "A snow skiing style in which the skier executes a series of short quick parallel turns by moving the backs of the skis from side to side at a constant speed." (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/wedeln)

I'm tempted either to keep it in as a taste of the foreign (though the target audience would not understand much German) or to paraphrase entirely. Any suggestions? Thanks!!
Proposed translations (English)
3 up slope on your boards, sweep down swinging
3 +1 skip the slopes
3 get on your skis and hit the slopes
Change log

Oct 17, 2011 17:59: Horst Huber (X) Created KOG entry

Discussion

Nicola Wood Oct 12, 2011:
mit susanne auffe breddln is as she says climbing up on skis and owe wedeln is weaving your way down in a series of quick turns. Given that it goes on to say das ist Skivergnügen pur you definitely need to make reference to skiing. I assume it goes on to describe the beautiful pistes, natural snow etc?
Horst Huber (X) Oct 11, 2011:
Mit Susanne. "Breddl" bezeichnet die Ski(-bretter), "breddln", das Verbum danach. Wenn ich es recht verstehe, auf den Skiern (nicht im Lift) den Hang hinauf, im "Wedel"-Stil herunter. Für "Naturburschen" beiderlei Geschlechts, oder solche die sich als solche fühlen wollen.
AllegroTrans Oct 11, 2011:
If you leave it in target audience will be very unlikely to understand - it looks more like Welsh than dialect German
Susanne Schiewe Oct 11, 2011:
'auffe breddln' means walking up the mountain on skis (i. e. ski-touring) rather than taking the lift, but I am not sure if this is to be taken literally here in this case - and I don't think you have to stick to 'Wedeln'

Ski-touring involves walking up the mountain on skis and skiing down the other side, ideally through virgin powder snow. It is a way of escaping the crowds, having an adventure and seeing what happens on the mountain away from the crowds.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-1347959/Ski-holida...

Proposed translations

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up slope on your boards, sweep down swinging

Just to trace the meaning.
Note from asker:
I tried to combine a bit of everything in my version: "Ski like the locals: uphill on your boards and wedeling down. Happiness is a day out on the slopes."
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks - this is the closest translation, which I was really after, although in the context I've used a different marketing phrase rather than this"
+1
30 mins

skip the slopes

a suggestion - you no doubt will get better ones, but this is a start

Skip The Slopes For Seriously Cool Fun: Top 10 Après Ski ...
www.rooster.co.uk/.../skip-slopes-seriously-cool-fun-top-10...
21 Feb 2011 – Skip The Slopes For Seriously Cool Fun: Top 10 Après Ski Destinations. Cheapflights.co.uk suggests travellers ditch their skis and head ...
Skip the Slopes and Go Get Piste: Top 10 Apres Ski Destinations
www.euroinvestor.co.uk › News
21 Feb 2011 – Skip the Slopes and Go Get Piste: Top 10 Apres Ski Destinations. LONDON -- (Marketwire) -- 02/21/11 -- A less than ideal number of snow ...
Note from asker:
Thanks, I was tempted to go down the route of using a ski-related marketing phrase, but agree w Helen that it needed to be about the pleasure of skiing and not about the after ski, because of the context being about how great the local skiing is
Peer comment(s):
agree BrigitteHilgner : Short, sharp, and comprehensible.
7 hrs
thanks!
neutral Helen Shiner : This seems to be suggesting that you forget the ski-ing and get on with the après-ski; I don't see how this conveys a similar message. Am I missing something?/Unfortunately, 'to skip' as you are using it means to leave something out.
10 hrs
maybe the refs were not completely a propos, but I think the phrase works
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19 hrs

get on your skis and hit the slopes

or even:

http://www.amazon.com/Boomers-hit-slopes-snowboards-generati...

get on your skis and 'plow the powder' like used in the above link...
Note from asker:
Thanks, I really like this suggestion and in another context I would have gone for this. But as the text is already about skiing it seems a bit too much like an introductory phrase and the new info is the local style of wedeling which I've decided to retain. Thanks!
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