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Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Erweiterungsmodul

English translation:

expansion module

Added to glossary by Alan Johnson
Feb 3, 2009 09:17
15 yrs ago
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German term

Erweiterungsmodul

German to English Tech/Engineering Computers: Hardware
Funktionen wie safe-stop und geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung werden durch ein Erweiterungsmodul bereitgestellt.

Is there any context where one could translate this as "option module"?
Proposed translations (English)
3 +4 expansion module
4 +2 add-on module
4 +1 extension module, optional extension
Change log

Feb 10, 2009 07:08: Alan Johnson Created KOG entry

Discussion

Alan Johnson Feb 3, 2009:
Strike I would go on strike. Hey, everybody's doing it. :-)
Roy Williams (asker) Feb 3, 2009:
It's frustrating It not the only time this has happened. It's just such a rotten feeling when I look at the finished product and see how it's been mangled or terms I was required to use knowing that they weren't correct. Thanks for your input.
Roy Williams (asker) Feb 3, 2009:
Hi Alan. No I wasn't give an explanation; I don't normally, even when I ask. It's one of the disadvantages of being an in-houser I guess. So from now on I have to translat Erweiterungsmodul as Option module whether I like it or not.
David Moore (X) Feb 3, 2009:
"Option module" This is evidently one of those clever dicks who can speak (and write) better English than the ENS to whom they entrust translations - I know, we've all had 'em. Even at the cost of appearing to contradict myself, I would not use the above expression in this context - it sounds less natural than "optional"... (whatever). It might well be used as a list heading in a catalogue, or elsewhere if space is at a premium, but I don't think that applies here.
Alan Johnson Feb 3, 2009:
Where you told why?
Roy Williams (asker) Feb 3, 2009:
I actually translated the term as "expansion module" but I was told I had to use option module and expansion module "darf nicht mehr vorkommen". I thought if I had to use an inaccurate translation (IMO), I needed to find some justification for it so I could sleep better.
BrigitteHilgner Feb 3, 2009:
Why do you want to use "option module" instead of "extension module"?

Proposed translations

+4
4 mins
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expansion module

Would be my bet. Optional module may also be an, er, option.

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Note added at 16 mins (2009-02-03 09:33:44 GMT)
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In a computer context "Erweiterung" is almost always 'expansion' and almost never 'extenstion'. Check it out: Google is your fiend.

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Note added at 16 mins (2009-02-03 09:34:13 GMT)
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Google is your friend :-)
Peer comment(s):
agree regardless (X) : Another option would be "add-on"
17 mins
agree Ken Cox
32 mins
agree Cookie Monst (X) : That's how I've always translated it.
52 mins
agree Inge Meinzer
4 hrs
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+1
5 mins

extension module, optional extension

Here are two options; the answer to your question is in broad terms "yes", but the "module" isn't absolutely necessary, IMO.
Peer comment(s):
agree Ken Cox : IMO 'optional module' is preferable to 'option module' (better English) if the asker wants to go that route
30 mins
Well, Ken, I see an "extension" as an added facility, but an "expansion" merely as e.g. an increased memory. But is the "optional module" an expansion, or an extension? That's the question.
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+2
24 mins

add-on module

It's what I've been saying - and had confirmed - for years.
Peer comment(s):
agree Armorel Young
21 mins
agree Harald Moelzer (medical-translator)
4 days
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