French term
United Kingdom
Professional, qualified and accomplished
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English
la façon rasoir
I am translating the transcript of a video which give advice on how to prepare a presentation pitch for a product.
I am not sure of how translate the phrase "la façon rasoir" in the following:
Il y a deux façons de présenter un produit : la façon rasoir ou la façon passionnante. Pour être rasoir, rien de plus facile. Passez votre temps à décrire les fonctionnalités de votre produit.
I suspect it means something like "factual" or "analytical".
Thanks for your help.
Mark
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Estelle Demontrond-Box
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Apr 7, 2015 21:21: Jennifer White changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Apr 8, 2015 07:34: writeaway changed "Field (specific)" from "Marketing" to "General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters" , "Field (write-in)" from "Training on how to present a product pitch" to "In a training text on how to present a product pitch"
Non-PRO (3): Tony M, Victoria Britten, Jennifer White
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Qualified Translator & Published Writer
Native in: French (Variant: Standard-France)
Works in: English to French, French to English, French
the boring way
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Note added at 3 mins (2015-04-07 20:52:49 GMT)
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http://www.cnrtl.fr/lexicographie/rasoir
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Tony M
: And an obvious opposition to 'passionante'! / And to be found in any professional-level dictionary.
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Merci Tony
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Chakib Roula
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Merci Chakib
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Yolanda Broad
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Merci Yolanda
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Simon Charass
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Merci Simon!
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Juan Jacob
: Bien entendu. La barbe, à la fin ! [Barbe, rasoir... ça colle, non ?]
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Merci Juan!
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polyglot45
: I agree this is the meaning but I wouldn't use this word here
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Thanks for your input!
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writeaway
: Naturally there are many ways to state this (marketing), but this is beyond a doubt the meaing of rasoir. As Tony says, see any dictionary.
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Merci Writeaway.
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Native in: English (Variant: Wessexois)
Works in: French to English, English, English to French
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