gusto pieno

09:09 Oct 23, 2013 

Yes, awful text, but it has to be finished today. I need to keep the five sense theme because there's an entire section later devoted to each sense!! Thanks to both of you for your input.

08:26 Oct 23, 2013 

Juliet, you might let your fantasy wander a bit and come up with something a little less cheap but still thematically acceptable. It all depends on deadlines and getting work, though, doesn't it?

08:24 Oct 23, 2013 

....and I do a lot of this kind of work - but the copy I translate is written in Milan by expert "venditori di fumo" who know how to turn a phrase. The text given here, on the other hand, seems to have been done "on the cheap".

08:20 Oct 23, 2013 

However, Italian clients want to be satisfied and have their sometimes cheesy taste translated in equally cheesy phrases, or they get upset.

08:18 Oct 23, 2013 

This reads like an very bad attempt at writing advertising copy - so I wouldn't be too punctilious about translating it accurately. As for keeping the theme of the five senses, in the case of "gusto" I wouldn't think the writer means actually eating the house to see what it tastes like. They're trying to make an allusion to something they don't have: good taste.