Jun 23, 2014 12:37
9 yrs ago
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German term
Austria
Native in: German
Works in: English to German, German to English, French to German, and 3 more.
auf Umwegen mit etw in Berührung kommen.
German to English
Bus/Financial
Photography/Imaging (& Graphic Arts)
colloquial expression
Über den zweiten Bildungsweg, der Ihn geplanter Weise eigentlich ins Lehramt führen sollte, ist er dann auf Umwegen mit der Fotografie in Berührung gekommen.
Via the second educational pathway which was supposed to ensure him a career in the teaching profession he later encountered photography in a roundabout way. ?
Vielen Dank!
Via the second educational pathway which was supposed to ensure him a career in the teaching profession he later encountered photography in a roundabout way. ?
Vielen Dank!
Proposed translations
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Change log
Jun 23, 2014 15:13: writeaway changed "Field" from "Art/Literary" to "Bus/Financial" , "Field (write-in)" from "(none)" to "colloquial expression"
Proposed translations
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eventually came to ... in a round-about way
I think this may fit quite well.
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Note added at 17 mins (2014-06-23 12:55:28 GMT)
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BTW: I've often seen zweite Bildungsweg described as "second chance education".
Could also be "found himself sidelined into photography" or
"got into photography by the back door/almost purely by chance."
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Note added at 17 mins (2014-06-23 12:55:28 GMT)
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BTW: I've often seen zweite Bildungsweg described as "second chance education".
Could also be "found himself sidelined into photography" or
"got into photography by the back door/almost purely by chance."
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
2 hrs
he (incidentally) discovered photography (in passing)
In the course of his second education career, firmly intent on becoming a teacher, he (incidentally) discovered photography (in passing).
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5 hrs
Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
Specializes in field
United Kingdom
Arts/Academic translator - Art historian
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, French to English
Related KudoZ points
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taking a circuitous path, [he then] discovered/encountered ...
Just another suggestion. Depends on the tone of the text... This has a certain wry quality to it and/or can be used in a deadly serious way.
A significant number of graduates featured in this book started off with a job unrelated to what they studied in college, let alone one they had an interest in. Others were doing exactly what they planned for while they were in college, while some were taking a circuitous path as they navigated their post-college lives; the chapters in this book reflect such a variety of paths.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ari-king/conversations-about-c...
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I did stay in the academic business, taking a circuitous path which included both being blackballed and being treated with great kindness and am now a tenured professor at the engineering school of New York University.
http://westviewnews.org/2014/03/science-from-away-backwards-...
A significant number of graduates featured in this book started off with a job unrelated to what they studied in college, let alone one they had an interest in. Others were doing exactly what they planned for while they were in college, while some were taking a circuitous path as they navigated their post-college lives; the chapters in this book reflect such a variety of paths.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ari-king/conversations-about-c...
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Note added at 5 hrs (2014-06-23 18:30:06 GMT)
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I did stay in the academic business, taking a circuitous path which included both being blackballed and being treated with great kindness and am now a tenured professor at the engineering school of New York University.
http://westviewnews.org/2014/03/science-from-away-backwards-...
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Pauline Alexiou
Native in English
Accurate, speedy freelance translations
Native in: English (Variants: British, Australian) 
Works in: Greek to English, German to English
stumbled upon it by chance
he stumbled upon photography by chance
Example sentence:
He stumbled upon it by chance.
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Yorkshireman
: IMO, better with "more or less by chance"
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Machiel van Veen (X)
: The shortest way to describe it.
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