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N. Krechting

376 questions

Sehen und gesehen werden

Non-PRO German to English Marketing Advertising / Public Relations

Es handelt sich um eine Headline.

Kontext: Man steht auf/in einem Hochhaus und kann weit sehen und auch gesehen werden (als Unternehmen).

Proposed translations (English)

5 +8

Henry Jansen, Ph.D.

Change log

May 4, 2007 08:39: Steffen Walter changed "Field" from "Other" to "Marketing"

May 5, 2007 12:23: Marcus Malabad changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"

Francis Lee (X) May 4, 2007: Ditto. And ditto re. Erich F's Einwand. Is this a survey about people who sleep in the office? Context/readership? Or are you just asking out of personal interest?
Armorel Young May 4, 2007: With Marcelo - what's wrong with the obvious "see and be seen"?
Marcelo Silveyra May 4, 2007: Ich nehme an, du möchtest "see and be seen" (was übrigens sehr üblich auf Englisch ist) nicht benutzen?

19 mins

Henry Jansen, Ph.D.

Netherlands

7 answers

Native in English

Works in field

Selected

"see and be seen"

With the other two, I see no objection to the obvious. It is very common in English

Note from asker:

See and be seen ist passend, denke ich! Danke!

Peer comment(s):

agree	BrigitteHilgner : My spontaneous idea, too. 4 mins
agree	Steffen Walter 17 mins
agree	Lori Dendy-Molz 30 mins
agree	Alison Jenner 34 mins
agree	Damian Harrison (X) 37 mins
agree	fairfaxco@gmail 39 mins
neutral	Erich Friese : ...'seeing and being seen' is ok for social settings. Here the element of 'distance' also needs to be translated 2 hrs
	Well, the question was about "sehen und gesehen werden." And, yes, the element of distance needs to be translated: "see far and be seen from afar"
agree	BirgitBerlin : still think it's good for marketing-speak, not just for social settings. 3 hrs
agree	Claire Cox 1 day 3 hrs

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