Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Stoff leitet doch!
English translation:
Yes, textiles do conduct! / Conductive textiles lead the way!
Added to glossary by
earthreptile
Mar 15, 2007 19:46
17 yrs ago
German term
Stoff leitet doch!
German to English
Tech/Engineering
Textiles / Clothing / Fashion
Textiles
It's the heading of a press release by a company manufacturing high-tech textile cables that conduct electricity, data and heat.
Can anyone think of a suitable snappy English version, please?
Can anyone think of a suitable snappy English version, please?
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 | Yes, textiles do conduct! |
Natascha Spinetto
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| 3 | Textiles are conductive |
BrigitteHilgner
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| 3 | Conducting textile fabrics |
Anne Schulz
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| 3 | see below.... |
CMJ_Trans (X)
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| 3 | More than meets the eye / Smart carpets ... |
Francis Lee (X)
|
Proposed translations
58 mins
Natascha Spinetto
Italy
Italy
Native in German
Specializes in field
Italy
Translating is communicating
Native in: German
Works in: English to German, Italian to German
Related KudoZ points
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8
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Yes, textiles do conduct!
how's that? probably by now you've vome up with something similar yourself. I found your question just now...
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
14 mins
BrigitteHilgner
Austria
Austria
Native in German
Austria
b2b/economics/marketing/market research/
Native in: German 
Works in: German to English, French to German, English to German
Related KudoZ points
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16
Textiles are conductive
Maybe too straightforward?
1 hr
Conducting textile fabrics
another take
13 hrs
see below....
This is a play on words that is impossible to reproduce as such, so you need to find an equivalent by adopting another tack :
Good conduct !
or
Textiles for good conduct
not particularly inspired but maybe something with "conduct"?
Good conduct !
or
Textiles for good conduct
not particularly inspired but maybe something with "conduct"?
16 hrs
More than meets the eye / Smart carpets ...
I'd get away from the "leitet" idea because the play on words can't be replicated in English. As I suspected (hence my question), it's not as if they conduct heat for, well, heating purposes - so "conducting" etc. would IMO be off the mark.
"Smart carpets" is the key term, although that may not suffice on its own here.
Smart carpet can spot fires, steer feet and sell beer
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,2134452,00...
("and sell beer" - where else but in Germany!)
"Smart carpets" is the key term, although that may not suffice on its own here.
Smart carpet can spot fires, steer feet and sell beer
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,2134452,00...
("and sell beer" - where else but in Germany!)
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