Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Dutch term or phrase:
Het deel van de tientallen
English translation:
The Part of Tens
Added to glossary by
Robert Allwood
Apr 5, 2005 23:07
19 yrs ago
Dutch term
"I was surprised by the speed & quality"
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, German to English, Dutch to English, and 3 more.
Het deel van de tientallen
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Printing & Publishing
Introduces a section of a book consisting of different lists of telkens 10 things. This is now the 2nd Table of Contents where I have come across it
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 +3 | The part of tens |
Ken Cox
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| 3 | The tens chapter |
edith1
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Proposed translations
+3
9 hrs
Selected
The part of tens
As dumb as it may sound...
This seems to be a commonly used 'feature' in self-help books and the like, judging from the google hits for the phrase, including the following interesting hit:
Eigen Kracht - Website over fitness, afvallen en doping
... Deel VI is een standaard onderdeel bij Dummies: ‘Het deel van de tientallen’, met allerlei interessante tips en websites. ...
www.lijfsportenmiddelen.nl/?nieuwsId=184
a related hit comes from the 'HTTL for Dummies' contents page:
Part IX: The Part of Tens
Chapter 26: The Top Ten Web Page Do's and Don'ts
Chapter 27: Ten Design Desiderata
Chapter 28: Decimating Web Bugs
Chapter 29: Ten Ways to Decide to Build or Buy Your Web Services
http://www.lanwrights.com/books/html4dum/h4d1e/contents.htm
HTH
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Note added at 9 hrs 8 mins (2005-04-06 08:16:08 GMT)
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that should of course be \'HTML\'
This seems to be a commonly used 'feature' in self-help books and the like, judging from the google hits for the phrase, including the following interesting hit:
Eigen Kracht - Website over fitness, afvallen en doping
... Deel VI is een standaard onderdeel bij Dummies: ‘Het deel van de tientallen’, met allerlei interessante tips en websites. ...
www.lijfsportenmiddelen.nl/?nieuwsId=184
a related hit comes from the 'HTTL for Dummies' contents page:
Part IX: The Part of Tens
Chapter 26: The Top Ten Web Page Do's and Don'ts
Chapter 27: Ten Design Desiderata
Chapter 28: Decimating Web Bugs
Chapter 29: Ten Ways to Decide to Build or Buy Your Web Services
http://www.lanwrights.com/books/html4dum/h4d1e/contents.htm
HTH
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Note added at 9 hrs 8 mins (2005-04-06 08:16:08 GMT)
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that should of course be \'HTML\'
Peer comment(s):
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Deborah do Carmo
: whoever created it should be shot on sight but it is the correct phrase......:-)
1 hr
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| agree |
Siobhan Schoonhoff-Reilly
1 hr
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| agree |
Jack den Haan
: You seem to have hit the nail right on the head. Having done that, you could use the hammer to clobber the culprit and spare Deborah some ammunition ;-)
5 hrs
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If I could only find the culprit -- that's ghastly English!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
9 hrs
The tens chapter
Or: the lists chapter/section
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