Double Dutch?

[nq:1]A job advert in this week's Economist for a chair at the Universiteit van Amsterdam ends with the mysterious sentence: "Acquisition will not be appreciated." What does this mean?[/nq]
I don't know.

Charles Riggs
My email address: chriggs/at/eircom/dot/net

[nq:1]A job advert in this week's Economist for a chair at the Universiteit van Amsterdam ends with the mysterious sentence: "Acquisition will not be appreciated." What does this mean?[/nq]
It is a literal translation of the Dutch phrase:
"Aquisitie wordt niet op prijs gesteld".
What it means is the following:
there are employment agencies, head-hunters, etc
who are looking for

[nq:2]A job advert in this week's Economist for a chair ... sentence: "Acquisition will not be appreciated." What does this mean?[/nq]
[nq:1]It is a literal translation of the Dutch phrase: "Aquisitie wordt niet op prijs gesteld". What it means is the ... agency is out of luck: he will have to buy them off himself. The university will not pay their fee.[/nq]
Thank you.

Laura
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[nq:1]A job advert in this week's Economist for a chair at the Universiteit van Amsterdam ends with the mysterious sentence: "Acquisition will not be appreciated." What does this mean?[/nq]
Greed will not be rewarded.

Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocit

[nq:2]A job advert in this week's Economist for a chair ... sentence: "Acquisition will not be appreciated." What does this mean?[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't know.[/nq]
There really is no need to tell us,
Jan

[nq:2]A job advert in this week's Economist for a chair ... sentence: "Acquisition will not be appreciated." What does this mean?[/nq]
[nq:1]It is a literal translation of the Dutch phrase: "Aquisitie wordt niet op prijs gesteld".[/nq]
The editor and translator Joy Burrough-Boenisch wrote a whole book about this sort of thing: "Righting English That's Gone Dutch". Delightful reading!
O

"Roland Hutchinson" (Email Removed) schrieb im Newsbeitrag
[nq:1]One of the points she makes is that it's not just the Dutch who have to be careful about Dutch ... or "inspected" or "monitored". Naturally when those native speakers are working as translators or editors, extra vigilance is called for...[/nq]
I know I have to concentrate sometimes not to go German. There are some concepts t

[nq:1]But you do tend to pick up phrases and constructions from the foreign language. One of the hardest things to do when translating is to free your mind from (in my case) German phraseology and idiom and write proper English.[/nq]
The danger is particularly notorious with respect to translating between English & French, because of the long & complicated interaction between those languages.

On 15 May 2004 10:23:13 -0400, Joe Fineman
[nq:2]But you do tend to pick up phrases and constructions ... my case) German phraseology and idiom and write proper English.[/nq]
[nq:1]The danger is particularly notorious with respect to translating between English & French, because of the long & complicated interaction between those languages. There are entire dictionaries of dangerous words

"Bob Cunningham" (Email Removed) schrieb im Newsbeitrag
[nq:2]The danger is particularly notorious with respect to translating between ... of dangerous words (usually with "Faux Amis" in the title).[/nq]
[nq:1]A.k.a. "deceptive cognates".[/nq]
Actually, they're not usually a problem. Any translator worth his or her salt knows, for example, that "eventuell" is German for "possibly".