imageträchtig

English translation: with a nod to popular appeal

19:33 May 13, 2015
German to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Journalism
German term or phrase: imageträchtig
Im World Wide Web geht's hoch her, seit München sein verhätscheltes Pinguin-Projekt auf Eis gelegt hat. Eigentlich wollte die Stadt gerade *imageträchtig* damit beginnen, ihre Verwaltung auf das freie Betriebssystem Linux umzustellen.
http://www.welt.de/print-welt/article332568/Linux-unter-Druc...
Johanna323
English translation:with a nod to popular appeal
Explanation:
With a nod to popular appeal, the city was about to switch its administration over to the free Linux operating system
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Michael Martin, MA
United States
Local time: 12:37
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3prestigious
Elani Koogle
3 +2with a nod to popular appeal
Michael Martin, MA
3 +1keen/intent on boosting its image
Johanna Timm, PhD
3image-laden
Donald Jacobson
3with a splash
Henry Schroeder
3commensurate with their image / in [an] image-boosting fashion/style
Lancashireman


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
image-laden


Explanation:
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Donald Jacobson
United States
Local time: 11:37
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  TonyTK: How would this work in a sentence?
14 hrs
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32 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
prestigious


Explanation:
In context, "high profile" may work better.

Elani Koogle
United States
Local time: 09:37
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard: High-profile is perfect, and much-vaunted is another possibility. I don't think prestigious is quite right though.
57 mins

agree  oa_xxx (X): and with Phil
2 hrs

neutral  Horst Huber (X): THis requires quite a re-write, and you might suggest how it might go.
5 hrs

neutral  BrigitteHilgner: As Lancashireman pointed out, we need an adverbial phrase as a solution.
10 hrs

agree  TonyTK: Yes, what would the whole sentence look like?
14 hrs
  -> I would be tempted to change the structure rather significantly, perhaps something like this: "In fact, it was a high-profile beginning that the city desired in..."
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59 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
with a splash


Explanation:
...wanted to start with a splash...

If you want to retain the German construction, you might try "strikingly"... wanted to start strikingly... but somehow that sounds a little clumsy....

Henry Schroeder
United States
Local time: 12:37
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
commensurate with their image / in [an] image-boosting fashion/style


Explanation:
Two of the proposals already on offer are adjectival in nature, whereas the context calls for an adverbial phrase.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&as_q="commensurate wit...

Lancashireman
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:37
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 74

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Cilian O'Tuama: a sufficiently eloquent adjectival proposal could swing it, no 'need' for adverbial phrase
1 day 1 hr
  -> e.g. commensurate [adj] with their image?
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
with a nod to popular appeal


Explanation:
With a nod to popular appeal, the city was about to switch its administration over to the free Linux operating system

Michael Martin, MA
United States
Local time: 12:37
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Horst Huber (X): You parsed it right, but state it too mildly -- it is more in the direction of capitalising on the image potential (that's where "trächtig" goes).
1 hr
  -> Thanks, Horst. "With a nod to" suggests someone's capitalizing on that effect, no?

agree  BrigitteHilgner
7 hrs
  -> Thanks, Brigitte!

neutral  Cilian O'Tuama: can't see how this can work, the city nods to popular appeal...?!
1 day 1 hr
  -> Yes, except “with a nod to” is the normal structure of the expression, not your rephrased version.
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
keen/intent on boosting its image


Explanation:

-trächtig indicates the promise / the anticipation of a heightened reputation/ more prestige (trächtig=tragend<schwanger), cp. bedeutungsschwanger. It (Munich) is striving for this image/reputation (but is not quite there yet)



Johanna Timm, PhD
Canada
Local time: 09:37
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 16

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lancashireman: with 'boosting its image'
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