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English translation: Christmas trees

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Swedish term or phrase:julgranar
English translation:Christmas trees
Entered by: Ulla Lundquist

11:20 Jan 25, 2012
Swedish to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Energy / Power Generation / power lines
Swedish term or phrase: julgranar
det står spännvinkel julgranar :
kontext ur projektbeskrivning är:
stolpar till en luftledning som ska byggas,
Vinkelstolpar i ledningen kommer förutom B-stolpar med hängkedja också vara tvåbenta hängvinkelstolpar och spännvinkel julgranar båda med vertikal fasplacering.
Ulla Lundquist
Italy
Local time: 12:57
Christmas trees
Explanation:
It is that simple. Now, there are zealots who don't like the specificity
and call them "holiday trees" etc, but those are extremists who should
be ignored. Everybody calls them Christmas tree, regardless of
personal beliefs.
Selected response from:

Nils Andersson
United States
Grading comment
Thanks!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +4Christmas trees
Nils Andersson
4Christmas tree
Christine Andersen


  

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27 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Christmas tree


Explanation:
This is in fact Swedish translated or taken over from English, I belive, though I may be wrong. (As I naturally heard of it first in English.)

The traditional pylon design is sometimes called the Christmas tree.

http://www.building.co.uk/buildings/architecture-news/riba-r...

Not an area I specialise in, but I AM interested in design, and knew about it from that angle.

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Note added at 38 mins (2012-01-25 11:58:45 GMT)
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/may/23/electricity-p...

In 2000, Lord Foster designed a pylon for Italian utility Enel that looked like a gymnast standing with arms aloft.

His practice explained that the design "abandons the conventional and untidy 'Christmas tree' configuration in which cables are supported by arms sprouting at intervals from the pylon's main mast. Instead the cables are neatly grouped within an open V-form, created by the junction of two attenuated masts".



Christine Andersen
Denmark
Local time: 12:57
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Christopher Schröder
2 hrs
disagree  Andrei Gitch (X): It is "both of them" means not single
3 hrs
  -> You are asked to give KudoZ answers as for a dictionary, i.e. in singular, undeclined form. Askers are assumed to be able to work out singular or plural for themselves, which after all is not difficult in English ;-)
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56 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +4
Christmas trees


Explanation:
It is that simple. Now, there are zealots who don't like the specificity
and call them "holiday trees" etc, but those are extremists who should
be ignored. Everybody calls them Christmas tree, regardless of
personal beliefs.

Nils Andersson
United States
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SwedishSwedish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 22
Grading comment
Thanks!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Andrei Gitch (X): correct
2 hrs
agree  Mel Willetts (X)
3 hrs
agree  Sven Petersson
4 hrs
agree  Angelica Tambour
1 day 6 hrs
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