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Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Aktualitaet

English translation:

currentness

Added to glossary by Peter Barker
Jun 28, 2006 10:40
18 yrs ago
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German term

Aktualitaet

German to English Other Business/Commerce (general)
Anyone got a good one-word rendering for "Aktualitaet" in the sense of "being up to date"?
Proposed translations (English)
3 -3 currentness
3 +5 topicality
5 -1 State-of-the-art
2 +1 ever-increasing necessity to keep pace with
3 up-to-dateness

Discussion

Ian M-H (X) Jun 28, 2006:
Two tips for getting more out of KudoZ: (1) give context when asking a question, rather than 'drip-feeding' it as you reject answers; (2) keep questions open for 24 hours, as recommended. You'd be surprised how often peers here *do* find something better.
Jonathan MacKerron Jun 28, 2006:
with writeaway
writeaway Jun 28, 2006:
Please provide a whole sentence so we can see the context?

Proposed translations

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currentness

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googles more than 1 million times
Peer comment(s):
disagree ciliegina : Sorry but it still sounds awful regardless of how many hits!
24 mins
I disagree, it fits the context and the requirement for a single-word solution and is common english
disagree Ian M-H (X) : Fewer than 1,000 UK Google hits for this and none of them read nicely. It might be a word that technically exists, but it isn't nice and certainly isn't "common" in British English.
1 hr
neutral Jane Luther : For the record, post-points: I'm with Ian and ciliengina on this, as "currentness" certainly doesn't sound nice in British English, even if the UK asker selected it!
6 hrs
disagree Edward Bradburn : I think "currency" is what's needed.
1029 days
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3 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Well, I am going for this suggestion on this occasion as it is an accurate rendering of the meaning, in regular use in English and a single word. Only minus is that is a bit more "staid" than I would have liked. But as I anticipated, it is very difficult to find anything better"
+5
4 mins

topicality

Perhaps, or "relevance" - can't tell if it fits without more context.
Note from asker:
Well, as I said, it is used in the sense of "being up to date/the very latest available". This particular document is about software systems and states "die steigenden Anforderungen an Aktualitaet, Qualitaet, ...". Topicality thus doesn't fit in this context. Currentness is better in terms of meaning but I am really looking for something more "snappy"
Peer comment(s):
agree Jane Luther
0 min
Thanks, Jane
agree Emilie : Yeh, more context would really help.
5 mins
Thanks, Emilie
agree Leonor Maia (X)
8 mins
Thanks, Leonor
agree Ian M-H (X)
1 hr
Thanks Ian
agree writeaway : this is why Kudoz points can be so meaningless. Asker withholds information, goes for a doubtful term and good answers are left behind to mess up the reliability ratio-which is also a joke.
1 hr
Quite!
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-1
32 mins

State-of-the-art

If it's about software systems, I'd use this.

Not snappier perhaps, but often met with in software (75 million hits on these words in Google)

Note also: for US English, remove the hyphens: "state of the art".
Example sentence:

"The rising demand for state-of-the-art, high-quality software systems...etc."

Note from asker:
Sorry, my explanantion was slightly misleading. "Aktualitaet" in this context refers to the information managed by the systems and not the systems themselves. So you can see that state-of-the-art isn't right either.
Peer comment(s):
disagree Stephen Sadie : Not really one word and not accurate enough in iits meaning, CL exaggerated
1 min
Having re-visited this issue after a while and on reading the other entries, I think "currency" would be most appropriate. I do agree with your comment on exaggeration.
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+1
36 mins

ever-increasing necessity to keep pace with

another option

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Note added at 39 mins (2006-06-28 11:19:48 GMT)
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keeping pace with ever-increasing quality requirements
Peer comment(s):
agree Jane Luther : This may not be a one-word, snappy answer, but fits perfectly with the sentence that was finally forthcoming when Asker declined Rachel's suggestions.
5 hrs
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1 hr

up-to-dateness

maybe this one fits. . .
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