Schönwettermacher

English translation: fair weather maker

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German term or phrase:	Schönwettermacher
English translation:	fair weather maker
Entered by:	barbarameyer

10:02 May 5, 2017

German to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. / ungewöhnlicher Beruf

German term or phrase: Schönwettermacher

Found this term in a list of "ungewöhnliche Berufe" in a German language textbook for school-going children.
Other terms in the list are
Mondgucker, Sonnenanbeter, Tierstreichler, Schönwettermacher, Fragensteller, Antwortgeber, Gesundpfleger.

Schönwetter machen
to smooth things over
http://www.dict.cc/deutsch-englisch/Schönwetter.html

Okay, so does the term Schönwettermacher mean conciliator, mediator, reconciler, or the like, perhaps? Yes? No?

Mind you, we're talking about an "ungewöhnlicher Beruf" here.

Many thanks for your insights into this unusual term !

barbarameyer

fair weather maker

Explanation:
They use this expression in weather forecasts to refer to weather systems responsible for prolonged periods of good weather. Could be fun to apply it to a person as well..

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Michael Martin, MA
United States
Local time: 08:07

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Much thanks, Michael :-)
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fair weather maker

Michael Martin, MA

Discussion entries: 9

Mair A-W (PhD)

Germany

11:00 May 6, 2017

Isn't the main point - for your textbook's purposes - genitive case - that they are all (approximately) X of Y - provider of answers, asker of questions, maker of fine weather, petter of animals, gazer of/at the moon?

Possibly you would do better to think of Beruf as "occupation" rather than "career" or "profession". Or at least, "vocation"...

Julia Burgess

United Kingdom

@barbara

15:03 May 5, 2017

In that case, I think "dream jobs" is a better way of describing them - some turn out to be real jobs, some not so much!

barbarameyer

ASKER

"These are made up professions, not real ones."

14:59 May 5, 2017

'Pferdeflüsterer', 'Hundefrisör' and 'Schokoladenprobierer' are also there in the list, so I'm not sure whether "these (= the terms that I have asked) are made up professions, not real ones".

Thomas Pfann

United Kingdom

@barbarameyer

14:20 May 5, 2017

And that is exactly the sort of context that we need in order to give helpful answers.<br>;-)

barbarameyer

ASKER

@ philgoddard

13:59 May 5, 2017

I'm not translating a German language textbook into English. I must explain these terms to my students, and to do be able to do that, I need to understand them myself first -- in English (preferably, that being my mother tongue) or in German.

philgoddard

United States

12:51 May 5, 2017

I find all these questions a bit odd. We don't have any context, the meaning seems obvious, and why would anyone want to translate a German-language textbook into English? Surely you would leave word lists in German.

Susan Welsh

United States

agree

12:13 May 5, 2017

with Thomas

Thomas Pfann

United Kingdom

Fantasieberufe

10:27 May 5, 2017

These are made up professions, not real ones. So I don't think mediator or similar is the right direction. I think you need to be quite literal here.

Julia Burgess

United Kingdom

Not actual jobs, surely?

10:26 May 5, 2017

These are comedy/dream jobs, aren't they? As an animal lover, I'd choose Tierstreichler :) - maybe animal cuddler for this one? I think they should have equally silly (literal) translations, rather than using genuine job titles (like mediator, etc.). I'm looking forward to seeing what suggestions fellow KudoZ-ers come up with!

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fair weather maker

Explanation:
They use this expression in weather forecasts to refer to weather systems responsible for prolonged periods of good weather. Could be fun to apply it to a person as well..

Michael Martin, MA
United States
Local time: 08:07
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German,

English
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Much thanks, Michael :-)

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