Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Ampelsystem
English translation:
traffic lights system / traffic light approach
Added to glossary by
Steffen Walter
Feb 15, 2006 10:59
18 yrs ago
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German term
Ampelsystem
German to English
Bus/Financial
Investment / Securities
Die Aktienkurs- und Zinsaenderungsrisiken werden anhand eines manuell zu steuernden Ampelsystems beurteilt, verbal bewertet, ein entsprechender Handlungsbedarf und Massnahmen definiert.
Refers to the way in which an investment company handles its investments.
MT.
Refers to the way in which an investment company handles its investments.
MT.
Proposed translations
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| 4 +2 | traffic lights system |
Steffen Walter
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| 4 | stoplight system |
MichaelRS (X)
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| 4 | traffic light approach |
RobinB
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| 3 | red light-system / alert system |
Maya Jurt
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Change log
Feb 15, 2006 11:10: Steffen Walter changed "Term asked" from "Ampelsystem (hier)" to "Ampelsystem"
Proposed translations
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traffic lights system
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In my view, "red-light/alert system" would be an incomplete rendition since your source sentence seems to be about assessing and classifying risks according to "green" (no or extremely insignificant), "amber" (medium) and "red" (severe, immediate action needed). In addition, I believe that the term "traffic lights system" would be readily understood.
In my view, "red-light/alert system" would be an incomplete rendition since your source sentence seems to be about assessing and classifying risks according to "green" (no or extremely insignificant), "amber" (medium) and "red" (severe, immediate action needed). In addition, I believe that the term "traffic lights system" would be readily understood.
Peer comment(s):
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Brie Vernier
: Yes, but "light" please, no 's'//Just ran across this (18.04.06): no, it's like 'teethbrush' vs. 'toothbrush' : ) -- or 'documents management' vs. 'document management'
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Natalie Wilcock (X)
: Oxford Dictionary has it as both with and without the s, Steffen. Go figure ;-)
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German term (edited):
Ampelsystem (hier)
red light-system / alert system
If you want to use the "Ampel" idea. Otherwise, "altert system" might do.
Generally, a red-light system has cameras at all four corners of an intersection, to photograph cars going in different directions and get pictures from ...
people.howstuffworks.com/red-light-camera1.htm
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Note added at 9 mins (2006-02-15 11:09:48 GMT)
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Sorry: alert system
Generally, a red-light system has cameras at all four corners of an intersection, to photograph cars going in different directions and get pictures from ...
people.howstuffworks.com/red-light-camera1.htm
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Note added at 9 mins (2006-02-15 11:09:48 GMT)
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Sorry: alert system
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stoplight system
It gets a lot of hits in Google.
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traffic light approach
Abb. TLA.
A standard methodology used in financial risk management, also integrated into Basel II solutions.
www.actuaries.org/AFIR/colloquia/ Maastricht/Kabbaj_Zeilstra.pdf
http://education.riskmetrics.com/wiki/index.php?title=Backte...
www.chicagofed.org/publications/capital_and_market_risk_ins... 2004/validating_default_probabilities.pdf
A standard methodology used in financial risk management, also integrated into Basel II solutions.
www.actuaries.org/AFIR/colloquia/ Maastricht/Kabbaj_Zeilstra.pdf
http://education.riskmetrics.com/wiki/index.php?title=Backte...
www.chicagofed.org/publications/capital_and_market_risk_ins... 2004/validating_default_probabilities.pdf
Peer comment(s):
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Steffen Walter
: Technically correct, and I'd agree if it weren't for the "anhand eines manuell zu steuernden Ampelsystems" in the source sentence, which doesn't fit particularly well with "approach" IMHO. / Yes, fair enough.
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Oh, I think I'd simply say a "manual traffic light approach" for that. Short and simple.
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Discussion
Comment/question to Brie: Is "traffic lights" vs "traffic light" a BrE vs AmE thing?