Giochi Numerici a Totalizzatore Nazionale

English translation: national tote numerical games

18:16 Sep 19, 2009
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Internet, e-Commerce / E-lottery
Italian term or phrase: Giochi Numerici a Totalizzatore Nazionale
I just need a shorter and more exact term that what I have come up with so far.
Blerta Alikaj
United States
Local time: 04:02
English translation:national tote numerical games
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http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&rlz=1T4SKPB_itEG285EG286&q...
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Vincenzo Di Maso
Portugal
Local time: 08:02
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I used the full term. Everybody else thought that Tote was too informal.
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4National lottery
James (Jim) Davis
3national tote numerical games
Vincenzo Di Maso


  

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national tote numerical games


Explanation:
http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&rlz=1T4SKPB_itEG285EG286&q...

Vincenzo Di Maso
Portugal
Local time: 08:02
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
I used the full term. Everybody else thought that Tote was too informal.
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks Vincenso

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National lottery


Explanation:
This would seem to be the "official" term for superenallotto as explained here:
http://www.giochidistato.it/site.php?page=20040518172353475
the equivalent of which in the UK is the
http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/home.ftl
and not the national totalisator board which is a betting company for betting on horse races (I once worked for it part time in my teens):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tote

If you have already used the term national lottery in your translation, then I would go for something like National numerical games, avoiding totalisator which is virtually synonymous with horse racing in the UK.

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Note added at 1 day10 hrs (2009-09-21 04:46:54 GMT) Post-grading
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Reading here, it seems the totalisator is a machine for horserace betting invented in Italy. As I remember it is a specific way of compiling a "book" based purely on the "total pool" of bets placed.

If you read here:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~bconlon/atl.htm#top
you see that it originated in Australia with the firm of the same name that may have copyright on the term and it is used worldwide. Always for horse and dog racing it seems.

"At this time the company entered the busiest period of manufacture and installation in its life. Simultaneously it was manufacturing and installing equipment for racetracks in India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, North and South America. In all, it installed equipment in 99 race tracks throughout the world between 1948 and 1955."


In 1966 Automatic Totalisators Ltd took the racing industry into the electronic era with the development of the World's First Computer Totalizator System, for the *****New York Racing Association *****, which handled a totalizator turnover each season of over $700 million.

James (Jim) Davis
Seychelles
Local time: 12:02
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 22
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks James. This is going to be distributed in the US so National Lottery would not help. We're still toying with the term.

Asker: Decided to use Totalizator too. The client wanted it in the term

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