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Irritants

English translation: irritants

10:06 Oct 9, 2017
French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Bus/Financial - Management
French term or phrase: Irritants
This is from a document on improvement of knowledge management and business performance, it concerns a company specialised in naval construction.

Améliorer les performances des produits, éviter les irritants clients.
L’insatisfaction du client, qui entretient le plus souvent des listes d’« irritants » ou de « cactus ».
Irritants Client: évènements, dispositions, faits techniques éventuellement mineurs mais récurrents et dont se plaignent les opérateurs.
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jessjess
Local time: 20:37
English translation:irritants
Explanation:
It's the same in English, and I think it would be wrong to translate it in any other way.
I would have thought "cactus" is the more difficult word - how you deal with it may depend on whether it comes up again.
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irritants
irritants


Explanation:
It's the same in English, and I think it would be wrong to translate it in any other way.
I would have thought "cactus" is the more difficult word - how you deal with it may depend on whether it comes up again.

philgoddard
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 24
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agree  B D Finch
39 mins
agree  Nikki Scott-Despaigne: I agree that "cactus" is not clear. It might be reinforcing "irritants" as a synonym. Cacti are prickly and can hurt others. "Prickly" is s/times used in English to describe s/one who is hypersensitive, so probably the wrong EN term here.
1 hr
agree  AllegroTrans
1 hr
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