myndighedsfejl

English translation: administrative error

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Danish term or phrase:myndighedsfejl
English translation:administrative error
Entered by: Charlesp

07:27 Sep 17, 2009
Danish to English translations [PRO]
Law/Patents - Law: Taxation & Customs
Danish term or phrase: myndighedsfejl
there must be a specific term?
phil curry
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:05
administrative error
Explanation:
If you are looking for a legal term of art, use "administrative error"

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Note added at 5 days (2009-09-22 11:55:59 GMT)
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Here is an example of usage: "The only timely filed substantive argument made by the employee is that the government had committed administrative error."
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Charlesp
Sweden
Local time: 19:05
Grading comment
Thanks.... came to the same conclusion myself, just wanted to hear if there was another take on it.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2error on the part of the authorities
Christine Andersen
5administrative error
Charlesp
4an error committed by the customs authorities
Diarmuid Kennan


  

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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
an error committed by the customs authorities


Explanation:
This has been translated in EU documents as:an error committed by the customs authorities


http://eur-lex.europa.eu/Notice.do?mode=dbl&lang=en&ihmlang=...

Diarmuid Kennan
Ireland
Local time: 18:05
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 51
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
error on the part of the authorities


Explanation:
error on the part of the authorities

-- is what I would use just out of the blue, without any context.

English does not always have expressions that correspond exactly to what I call 'telescope words' in Danish...


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Note added at 19 mins (2009-09-17 07:47:05 GMT)
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Administrative error
is another possibility

You may need to rephrase it to suit your context and register...

When the authorities make a mistake

Misunderstanding ;-)

Application of regulations that do not apply in this specific case

OK, that sounds way out... But sometimes it does in fact convey the meaning better if you get a more distant perspective and talk about the specific error (as defined in the context) rather than clinging desperately to the Danish words and syntax, which just do not work in English.
That, after all, is the difference between a translator and a machine!

With more context, I could be more specific!


Christine Andersen
Denmark
Local time: 19:05
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 26

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agree  Helen Johnson
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agree  Adrian MM. (X)
2 days 13 hrs
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5 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
administrative error


Explanation:
If you are looking for a legal term of art, use "administrative error"

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Note added at 5 days (2009-09-22 11:55:59 GMT)
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Here is an example of usage: "The only timely filed substantive argument made by the employee is that the government had committed administrative error."

Charlesp
Sweden
Local time: 19:05
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 11
Grading comment
Thanks.... came to the same conclusion myself, just wanted to hear if there was another take on it.
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