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Malifizierung

English translation: malus/penalty/negative bonus

07:55 Sep 27, 2018
German to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Human Resources / collective bargaining agreement for airline employees
German term or phrase: Malifizierung
Monitoring kurzfristiger Dienstplanänderungen (ACARS) (Ziel: Transparenz, ggf. Begrenzung oder *Malifizierung*)

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TIA!
Hermien Desaivre
South Africa
Local time: 06:03
English translation:malus/penalty/negative bonus
Explanation:
The context is rather obscure, which is not your fault, but it's probably something to do with bonus/malus. A bonus is an extra payment for good performance, and bonification means the payment of one. A malus is a penalty for underperformance.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus-malus
However, this is not a well known word, so you may prefer one of the alternatives I've offered.

http://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bonification

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Note added at 6 hrs (2018-09-27 14:13:57 GMT)
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We've had Malus/Mali a few times before. For example:
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/german-to-english/transport-transp...
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philgoddard
United States
Grading comment
VERY hard to grade. Everyone helped me take one step closer to an answer. In the end, I suggested to the client that this might be like a "black mark" against the employer - i.e. "penalization, as Johanna said. I award low points only because our solution is not conclusive and I hesitate to enter this into the Kudoz glossary. Please feel free to object or open a discussion regarding my grading and closing of this question. Thank you once again to everyone who dared attempt an answer!
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Summary of answers provided
3 +1malus/penalty/negative bonus
philgoddard
4cancellation/annulment
Stuart and Aida Nelson
3deterioration [due to conversion]
Stuart and Aida Nelson
Summary of reference entries provided
Malefizierung
Johanna Timm, PhD

Discussion entries: 3





  

Answers


1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
deterioration [due to conversion]


Explanation:
I wonder if this is an error. Errors should be translated as errors and it is always a good idea to insert a note in the translation to point out the error and perhaps give a suggestion of what it could possibly mean.

The only thing that could make sense here would be 'conversion' [as a consequence of] 'deterioration'

Definition of Malifizierung:
bedeutet die Verschlechterung der Bedingungen für Anleger infolge von Konversion (UMWANDLUNG) bei festverzinslichen Wertpapieren (hauptsächlich bei Pfand- und Kommunalbriefen); ist nur unter Einhaltung der Emissionsbedingungen möglich
https://www.generalibank.at/m116/internet/de/lexikon/m.jsp

Monitoring kurzfristiger Dienstplanänderungen (ACARS) (Ziel: Transparenz, ggf. Begrenzung oder Malifizierung)
Monitoring of short-term duty schedule changes (ACARS) (objective: transparency, limitation or **deterioration [conversion] **if necessary)
https://www.deepl.com/translator
** Deepl translated it as malification, I changed it to **deterioration [conversion]**

I don't know if this fits your context. However, I would suggest asking your client.

Hope it helps


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Note added at 4 hrs (2018-09-27 12:03:17 GMT)
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Actually, deterioration is a mild description of 'Malefizierung'. It actually means 'worsening' !!!

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Note added at 5 hrs (2018-09-27 13:46:39 GMT)
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ADDITION TO MY ANSWER:

take away 'conversion' and just leave 'DETERIORATION' to avoid further misunderstandings!



Stuart and Aida Nelson
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:03
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 8
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you - I have been researching this for two days now and only found the same references, but I did not know what to make of it. I will wait for more responses, but so far what you say makes sense.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  philgoddard: Your reference relates to investment, and "conversion" is about bonds.
3 hrs
  -> I know that perfectly well. I still believe that it is an error!
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
malus/penalty/negative bonus


Explanation:
The context is rather obscure, which is not your fault, but it's probably something to do with bonus/malus. A bonus is an extra payment for good performance, and bonification means the payment of one. A malus is a penalty for underperformance.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus-malus
However, this is not a well known word, so you may prefer one of the alternatives I've offered.

http://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bonification

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Note added at 6 hrs (2018-09-27 14:13:57 GMT)
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We've had Malus/Mali a few times before. For example:
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/german-to-english/transport-transp...

philgoddard
United States
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 58
Grading comment
VERY hard to grade. Everyone helped me take one step closer to an answer. In the end, I suggested to the client that this might be like a "black mark" against the employer - i.e. "penalization, as Johanna said. I award low points only because our solution is not conclusive and I hesitate to enter this into the Kudoz glossary. Please feel free to object or open a discussion regarding my grading and closing of this question. Thank you once again to everyone who dared attempt an answer!
Notes to answerer
Asker: In fact, another text for this client did have the term "malus" in - therefore I did not think of it in that way here. I think that the purpose of this body is to monitor employee conditions and if they see that there are too many instances of short-notice changes to the roster, they may take steps to limit this or address the issue for "wrongdoing" on the part of the employer. Perhaps?


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Stuart and Aida Nelson: I don't think that the German meaning of 'Malifizierung' applies to your options. If at all, you should research the meaning of 'Malifizierung' in German.
34 mins
  -> As you yourselves found, all the online German references are to bond conversions, and clearly not relevant here. My reference shows that this concept exists in English and French, and its meaning is likely to be be similar in German.
agree  Johanna Timm, PhD: penalization, see ref. entry
5 hrs
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3 days 8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
cancellation/annulment


Explanation:
Monitoring of short-term duty schedule changes (ACARS) (objective: transparency, limitation or *cancellation/annulment* if necessary)

Risiken mit fremdem Geld, für das man im Fall des Scheiterns keine Verantwortung übernehmen muss, sind keine Risiken und von daher ist es nicht einzusehen, dass es bei Erfolg Benifizierung und bei Misserfolg keine *Malifizierung* gibt.

https://archiv.bllv.de/Meldungen.1573.0.html?&no_cache=1&tx_...

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Note added at 3 days 8 hrs (2018-09-30 16:46:41 GMT)
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Die Steuerungswirkung strecken- und zeitdifferenzierender Malifizierung/Bonifizierung
https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Sac...

Stuart and Aida Nelson
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:03
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 8
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Reference comments


10 hrs
Reference: Malefizierung

Reference information:
Malefikant=Straftäter ( cp. lat. malum facere – Böses tun/ to do evil)
http://drw-www.adw.uni-heidelberg.de/drw-cgi/zeige?index=lem...

malefiziert= verbrecherisch
http://drw-www.adw.uni-heidelberg.de/drw-cgi/zeige?index=lem...

malefizieren= als strafbar/strafwürdig betrachten
->Malefizierung= penalization

Johanna Timm, PhD
Canada
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 104
Note to reference poster
Asker: Thank you very much for this. I also eventually considered that this may refer to some sort of finding of "wrongdoing" on the part of the employer, or some form of penalisation. I have left the client a note to review the translation and references.

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