Dec 15, 1999 14:34
24 yrs ago
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German term
United Kingdom
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, German to English, Spanish to English, and 23 more.
einem Irrtum aufsitzen
German to English
Tech/Engineering
Ich habe deshalb die Bedingung gestellt, dass die Versuche unter unsere Aufsicht widerholt müssen, um auszuschliessen, dass wir gleich zu Beginn unserer Arbeit einem Irrtum aufsitzen.
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Ilse Hawes (X)
Ilse Hawes (X)
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to base something on a wrong assumption
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I have therefore decided that the trials must be repeated under our supervision, to ensure that we do not base our work on a wrong assumption from the start.
I have therefore decided that the trials must be repeated under our supervision, to ensure that we do not base our work on a wrong assumption from the start.
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Ilse Hawes (X)
Ilse Hawes (X)
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14
to base something on a wrong assumption
sentence:
I have therefore decided that the trials must be repeated under our supervision, to ensure that we do not base our work on a wrong assumption from the start.
I have therefore decided that the trials must be repeated under our supervision, to ensure that we do not base our work on a wrong assumption from the start.
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Bernardo Pohl
United States
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Thirty plus years of techno-babble
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I would use '...overlook an error..."
Hope it helps.
Hope it helps.
2 hrs
Dierk Seeburg
Native in German
Courteous professional, charter member
Native in: German (Variants: Swiss, Swabian, Bavarian, Alsatian, Austrian, Namibian, Platt / Nieder (Low German), Germany, South Tyrol (Italy), Saxon (Upper), Belgian) 
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404
to be under a misapprehension
Thus, I have stipulated that the experiments be repeated under our supervision to exclude that we will be under a misapprehension at the very beginning of our work.
8 hrs
to avoid carrying through an initial error
Therefore I imposed the condition to repeat the experiments under our supervision to avoid carrying through an intial error.
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Andrew Morgan
Native in English
Engineer and musician, a renaissance man
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, English to German
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90
"...to minimise the risk that our work is based on an error from the start."
"...to minimise the risk that our work is based on an error from the start." Ths would be my formal translaion, an idiomatically better translation IMHO would be "..to minimise the risk that we fall for a missapprehension from the offset" which would better communicate the tone of the original.
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Dear ProZ-people, seeing as how the question is now a month old and Nugent did not see fit to assign a rating to the very prompt and useful responses, please allow me to give mine:
I think the response by pog451 (the last one until now) is BRILLIANT!
High time he/she got the KudoZ!
As this example shows, there is a very real danger that your KudoZ system will founder if you do not introduce a mechanism by which to deal with non-response of askers.
It would further greatly enhance the sysetem if you made some provision for DEBATE among responders.
Hoping to find such a forum was the main reason I joined your system.
Regards, C. Hay
I think the response by pog451 (the last one until now) is BRILLIANT!
High time he/she got the KudoZ!
As this example shows, there is a very real danger that your KudoZ system will founder if you do not introduce a mechanism by which to deal with non-response of askers.
It would further greatly enhance the sysetem if you made some provision for DEBATE among responders.
Hoping to find such a forum was the main reason I joined your system.
Regards, C. Hay
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