Att tala med bönder på bönders vis

English translation: to speak the customer's language

14:40 May 19, 2009
Swedish to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Retail
Swedish term or phrase: Att tala med bönder på bönders vis
Att tala med bönder på bönders vis är gammalt och accepterat och lika aktuellt nu.

An English phrase similar in meaning to the above?
Ciarán Rooney
Ireland
Local time: 07:44
English translation:to speak the customer's language
Explanation:
It is a quote from a well-known Swedish poem: ".., och han talar med bönder på böndernas vis och med lärde män på latin." It is not quite the same thing as to "talk the talk and walk the walk" som I will refrain from proposing thet.

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Note added at 20 mins (2009-05-19 15:01:04 GMT)
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so I will refrain from proposing that (excuse my dyslexia)
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asptech
Local time: 08:44
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4to speak the customer's language
asptech
4 +1get on the customer's wavelength
Christine Andersen
3To talk with farmers using farmers' idiom
TechLawDC
3to speak in layman's terms
Charlotte Lindgren
3when in Rome...
Bjørnar Magnussen


  

Answers


10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
To talk with farmers using farmers' idiom


Explanation:
To talk with farmers using farmers' idiom is a longstanding practice [in marketing], and is accepted today (as if it were a novel approach).
((This is my guess))

TechLawDC
United States
Local time: 03:44
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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19 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
to speak the customer's language


Explanation:
It is a quote from a well-known Swedish poem: ".., och han talar med bönder på böndernas vis och med lärde män på latin." It is not quite the same thing as to "talk the talk and walk the walk" som I will refrain from proposing thet.

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Note added at 20 mins (2009-05-19 15:01:04 GMT)
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so I will refrain from proposing that (excuse my dyslexia)

asptech
Local time: 08:44
Native speaker of: Native in SwedishSwedish
PRO pts in category: 7

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  De Novi
2 hrs

agree  Sven Petersson
16 hrs

agree  amgt
21 hrs

agree  Bjørnar Magnussen: You can farm the farm, but can you talk the farmer talk?
1 day 15 hrs
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30 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
get on the customer's wavelength


Explanation:
to get on the customer's wavelength

-- assuming it is the customer you are talking to.

Or, more literally, speak to customers in their own language


Christine Andersen
Denmark
Local time: 08:44
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  David Rumsey
1 hr
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
to speak in layman's terms


Explanation:
means to explain something in simple English


    Reference: http://www.google.com
Charlotte Lindgren
Australia
Local time: 17:14
Works in field
Native speaker of: Swedish
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1 day 15 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
when in Rome...


Explanation:
when in Rome, do as the Romans do

A famous saying. Maybe it would fit in some contexts?

Bjørnar Magnussen
Local time: 08:44
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in NorwegianNorwegian
PRO pts in category: 7
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