Re: Sentence on Website
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Emile van Bergen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:24:41PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
>
> > Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> writes:
> > > * Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au> [2003-03-19 11:22]:
> > >> > I don't understand, what " Failure to deliver mutually agreed upon
> > >> > projects" should mean. Can someone express it in other words?
> > >> If you're the applicant and I'm the application manager then we will
> > >> discuss what tasks you want to do with Debian and then both agree
> > > ...
> > > tbh, as a non-nativer speaker, I cannot make any sense of the sentence
> > > on the web page either. Your explanation is good, but the sentence on
> > > the web site doesn't convey that information. Can you (or someone)
> > > rephrase the sentence?
> >
> > I (as a non-native speaker too) can't rephrase it, but my translation
> > would be something like "Es war nicht möglich Projekte durchzuführen,
> > auf die man (Applicant and AM) sich beidseitig einigen konnten". My
> > translation isn't very good, but i hope i could point put my
> > interpretation of this sentence...
>
> I think it's more something like "Applicant hat eine or mehrere Projekte
> auf die man (Applicant und AM) sich beidseitig hatten geeinigt, nicht
> durchgeführt".
FYI: The sentence I finaly choosed is:
# Der Bewerber schafft es nicht, die zum Test seiner Fähigkeiten
vereinbarten Aufgaben zu erledigen
Translated back to (probably bad) english: Failure to successfully finish
the agreed demonstration tasks for his skill test
thanks for the help,
Frank
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Frank Lichtenheld
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mail: frank@lichtenheld.de
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