Den dybe tallerken

English translation: the wheel is reinvented

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Danish term or phrase:Den dybe tallerken opfindes
English translation:the wheel is reinvented
Entered by: stephen mewes

08:14 Aug 25, 2005
Danish to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Marketing / Market Research
Danish term or phrase: Den dybe tallerken
Der er ansat en helt ny VP Marketing, der skal have tid til at komme på plads og bl.a have etableret en konstruktiv samarbejdsrelation til yyy. Den dybe tallerken opfindes mange gange hver måned, da mange af xxx’s medarbejdere ikke ønsker at få beskrevet de basale processer og implementeret forbedringer. Der mangler planer.
stephen mewes
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:58
the wheel is reinvented
Explanation:
re-inventing the wheel
(something basic has to re-examined)
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Paul Larkin (X)
Local time: 10:58
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Summary of answers provided
5 +6the wheel is reinvented
Paul Larkin (X)
4Inventing the wheel
Christine Andersen
3invent the wheel
Terence Ajbro


Discussion entries: 2





  

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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Inventing the wheel


Explanation:
Danes can't have revolutions - they can't fit them in between breakfast and lunch...

So they invent soup-plates instead of inventing the wheel

(Well, that's what they say themselves!)

Christine Andersen
Denmark
Local time: 11:58
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 32
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +6
the wheel is reinvented


Explanation:
re-inventing the wheel
(something basic has to re-examined)

Paul Larkin (X)
Local time: 10:58
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 3

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Mads Grøftehauge
48 mins

agree  Suzanne Blangsted (X)
4 hrs

agree  Pernille Chapman: "Reinventing" seems to really emphasise the pointlessness of it all :-)
8 hrs

agree  pcovs: Totally with Pernille. It's pointless to 'reinvent' something, and I believe "den dybe tallerken" and "the wheel" are fully equivalent. ;o)
1 day 5 hrs

agree  farmor: "Den dybe tallerken" is a fact, and so is the wheel. No point in re-inventing either one.
2 days 5 hrs

agree  Roald Toskedal
3 days 2 hrs
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
invent the wheel


Explanation:
a rough English equivalent

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Note added at 12 mins (2005-08-25 08:26:21 GMT)
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or rephrase with something like "solutions to the same problem are found many times each month" etc.

Terence Ajbro
Sweden
Local time: 11:58
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 3
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