The new Seamaster Aqua Terra "Ultra Light" vs...the Grammar Police

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M'Bob

·Aug 30, 2019

THE SEAMASTER AQUA TERRA "ULTRA LIGHT"
"Designed for sporting comfort, OMEGA’s new Seamaster Aqua Terra “Ultra Light” is the ultimate athlete’s watch. Lightweight, unobtrusive and eye-catching, this ergonomic timepiece will complement your look – without cramping your style."

Unobtrusive: not conspicuous or attracting attention

Eye-catching: immediately apparent or noticeable; striking.

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Foo2rama

·Aug 30, 2019·Nowhere near as grumpy as he used to be...

I thought ultralight referred to your wallet after buying one of them.

 

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vbrad26

·Aug 30, 2019

Hah perhaps they meant "unobstructive"

But if you look at just the word "obtrusive",synonyms for that word include: busy, interfering, intruding...

So UNobtrusive, would mean it is not any of those things, but still eye-catching.

But still seems like an odd word choice.

Edited: Aug 30, 2019

 

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Nobel Prize

·Aug 30, 2019

Well, they are not saying inconspicuous but unobtrusive which could be targeted at the lightness and low profile helping the watch not “ be Obtrusive” during sport activities.

 

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SpeedyPhill

·Aug 31, 2019

staggeringly daring... ... putting that price on it 😁

 

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eugeneandresson

·Aug 31, 2019

I’ll say it again : genius’s to convert 55g of titanium into 1kg of gold...

 

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Braindrain

·Sep 3, 2019

Aren't these usually originally in French and then translated? I always assumed so.

eg. "Novelty" in French isn't the same in English.

 

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Longbow

·Sep 3, 2019

Braindrain

Aren't these usually originally in French and then miss-translated? I always assumed so.

eg. "Novelty" in French isn't the same in English.

The French site says: Léger, discret et séduisant, which I take to mean: Lightweight, discreet and seductive.

The German site says: Leicht, dezent, aber unübersehbar, which means: Light, discreet but conspicuous, which is nonsense. I think the German should have been: Leicht, dezent und verführerisch.

So the English version looks like a miss-translation from French into German into English.


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