sichere Stilistik

English translation: stylistic confidence

08:59 Apr 7, 2009
German to English translations [PRO]
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German term or phrase: sichere Stilistik
Aus dem Angebot einer Agentur, die für ihr Angebot im Bereich Texten wirbt:
Prägnante Wortwahl, sichere Stilistik
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Germany
Local time: 11:04
English translation:stylistic confidence
Explanation:
I think 'confidence' works well here.

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Note added at 5 hrs (2009-04-07 14:09:49 GMT)
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or 'a confident style'.
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Anne-Marie Grant (X)
Local time: 10:04
Grading comment
Thanks
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Summary of answers provided
3 +2stylistic confidence
Anne-Marie Grant (X)
3 +1excellent grasp of style
Armorel Young
3high degree of stylistic awareness
Bernd Runge
3effective style
Susanne Creak
3a sound style
casper (X)


  

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23 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
high degree of stylistic awareness


Explanation:
... wenn man es so umschreiben möchte.

Bernd Runge
Germany
Local time: 11:04
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 4
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53 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
excellent grasp of style


Explanation:
Could be "confident grasp of style", but that's perhaps a little weak in this context.

Armorel Young
Local time: 10:04
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ingeborg Gowans (X)
44 mins
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
effective style


Explanation:
I'm aware "effective" is not really "sicher", but using it may be an alternative here.

Susanne Creak
Australia
Local time: 20:04
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
a sound style


Explanation:
What concerns a writer is much less a words history than its present meaning and idiomatic habits. English being of all languages the one that has gathered its material from the most varied sources, the study of its etymology is naturally of exceptional interest. It is a study, however, worth undertaking for that interest, and as an end in itself, rather than as a means to acquiring either a sound style or even a correct vocabulary.
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"The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules – that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the devilish in it – that it fits its proprietor tightly yet ever so loosely, as a skin fits you. It is, in fact, quite as seriously an integral part of you as that skin is. . ."
- H.L. Mencken
http://www.audreybeaulacstyle.com/styledefined/labels/Paris....

casper (X)
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
stylistic confidence


Explanation:
I think 'confidence' works well here.

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Note added at 5 hrs (2009-04-07 14:09:49 GMT)
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or 'a confident style'.

Anne-Marie Grant (X)
Local time: 10:04
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 2
Grading comment
Thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lancashireman: a confident style
6 hrs
  -> Thanks, Andrew I think 'a confident style' is better

agree  Harald Moelzer (medical-translator): confident style
5 days
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