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Localization for an astronaut's vineyard

Localizing for the community in Wine Country, California: how an international marketing course turned into an experiential learning project that built bilingual brand awareness for a local astronaut’s winery.

Whether you are a localization project manager, translator, or newbie to the industry, you will want to join Middlebury Institute of International Studies’ Translation and Localization Management professor, Yelena Proskurin, and current students as they share their experiences localizing a former NASA astronaut’s marketing campaigns–the lessons learned, opportunities seized, and future of the project.

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Glossary entry

Latin term or phrase:

Promoveatur ut amoveatur

English translation:

Let him/her be promoted so that he/she be removed

Added to glossary by Luis Antonio de Larrauri
Mar 31, 2008 06:44
17 yrs ago
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Latin term

Promoveatur ut amoveatur

Latin to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
If I understand correctly, it's a common expression...
Proposed translations (English)
5 +7 Promote him to remove him
Change log

Mar 31, 2008 10:45: Luis Antonio de Larrauri Created KOG entry

Proposed translations

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Promote him to remove him

Yes, it is an expression. You can see an explanation in the following links.

Another translation would be:Let him be promoted to get him out of the way.
Reference:

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promoveatur_ut_amoveatur

http://www.yuni.com/library/latin_5.html

Peer comment(s):
agree BrigitteHilgner : It's still practised.
8 mins
Thank you, Brigitte
agree Jim Tucker (X) : yes, literally "let him be promoted, so that he may be removed"; in other words "kick him upstairs"
48 mins
Thanks Jim
agree Olga Cartlidge : it could also be "her" for that matter.
1 hr
Exactly. Thanks for the remark, Olga
agree Krisztina Lelik
1 hr
Thank you Krisztina
agree Joseph Brazauskas : Lit., 'Let him/her be promoted so that he/she be removed.'
3 hrs
Thank you Joseph
agree Stephen C. Farrand : Seems a European Continental expression, to judge from web citations. Often about the Catholic Church.
17 hrs
Thanks Stephen. Well, it depends on who writes each citation... but it is mainly a political maneuver.
agree maria fischer : Helped me right now, thanks to all!
3188 days
Thank you, Francisca
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