dozens of light bulbs on the head at a time

French translation: des dizaines d'idées dans la tête en même temps

09:49 May 11, 2013

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English term or phrase: dozens of light bulbs on the head at a time

"Job: There are dozens of light bulbs on the head at a time".

La solution est peut-être évidente mais décidément elle m'échappe.
Il est bien possible que ce soit un calque de l'italien - le texte en est plein - mais ça n'éclaire pas ma lanterne pour le moment...

Merci.

Françoise Vogel KudoZ activity Questions: 42 (none open) (2 closed without grading) Answers: 4261
Local time: 21:51

French translation:des dizaines d'idées dans la tête en même temps

Explanation:
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Note added at 21 mins (2013-05-11 10:10:40 GMT)
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ou 'fourmillent' : 'les idées foumillent dans votre tête...'

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Cyril B.
France

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Merci encore !
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des dizaines d'idées dans la tête en même temps

Cyril B.

c'est un travail qui exige de jongler avec plusieurs tâches à la fois

Anne R

Discussion entries: 11

Sheila Wilson

Spain

@ Tony

16:27 May 12, 2013

Interesting take that may well be true since the Asker was thinking of a possible Italian source for this text. That would indeed support Cyril's answer of multiple ideas, rather than my theory of sudden understanding, as in many pennies dropping.

Tony M

France

@ Sheila

15:12 May 12, 2013

I suspect it's not a missing word, but just a mis-translation: I reckon they're talking about the image of a person with a light-bulb above their head, but have mistakenly used 'on' for 'over' or 'above' (as in so many languages).

Françoise Vogel

ASKER

@ Sheila

12:33 May 12, 2013

très très intéressant.

Sheila Wilson

Spain

Typo

10:47 May 12, 2013

I can't tell whether or not it's a translation from another language, but it would be quite normal to say in English "There are dozens of light bulbs on IN the head at a time". The "in" is missing from your text. My maths teacher used to say that she could see the light bulbs going on in her pupils' heads. I'm afraid I suffered from a lot of power cuts during her lessons :)

Anne R

Italy

@ Françoise

10:22 May 11, 2013

tu as sûrement raison c'est une traduction de l'italien, reste à savoir ce que les 'lampadine sulla testa' signifient en italien !!

Françoise Vogel

ASKER

@ Cyril

10:21 May 11, 2013

oui, tout à fait - "bla bla bla" - et ça y est, j'ai fait le lien avec l'expression "originale" qui est bel et bien en italien (dans le sens d'avoir une idée, une illumination).

Anne R

Italy

horoscope?

10:17 May 11, 2013

très bonne intuition Cyril! :-)

Cyril B.

France

10:12 May 11, 2013

C'est bien un horoscope ? genre "Travail : aujourd'hui, vous blablabla..." ?

Anne R

Italy

cavolo!

10:05 May 11, 2013

:-))

Françoise Vogel

ASKER

j'ai la suite (et fin) :-))

10:04 May 11, 2013

Job.There are dozens of light bulbs on the head at a time: if you are able to make use of your intuition, you will fly!

Anne R

Italy

@Françoise

09:57 May 11, 2013

tu as un petit paragraphe à rajouter pour avoir un peu plus contexte et comprendre le ton du texte d'origine?

Answers

18 mins confidence:

c'est un travail qui exige de jongler avec plusieurs tâches à la fois

Explanation:
.. une idée mais pas évident..

Anne R
Italy
Local time: 21:51
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 4

Notes to answerer

Asker: merci beaucoup Anne... mi si è accesa una lampadina...

14 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

des dizaines d'idées dans la tête en même temps

Cyril B.
France
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Merci encore !

Notes to answerer

Asker: excellent ... merci d'avoir éclairé mon chemin :)

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