Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Swedish term or phrase:
yes box!
English translation:
Yes indeed! (or something like that)
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Feb 12, 2019 10:51
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Swedish term
yes box!
Swedish to English
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Hello
I have a text where the client sometimes uses a combination of English and Swedish
In FAQs
One question is (translated from Swedish by me): Do you have templates that I can use to design my layout?
and the answer is "***yes box***" (this is what the client actually answers word for word)
It's the box bit that I don't get
Can anyone help please?
I have a text where the client sometimes uses a combination of English and Swedish
In FAQs
One question is (translated from Swedish by me): Do you have templates that I can use to design my layout?
and the answer is "***yes box***" (this is what the client actually answers word for word)
It's the box bit that I don't get
Can anyone help please?
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 | Yes indeed! (or something like that) |
Matt Bibby
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| 5 | yes, sure! |
Per-Erik Nordström
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| 3 -3 | Ja ruta |
George Hopkins
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Proposed translations
12 mins
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Yes indeed! (or something like that)
Swedes say this a lot. See the reference I've posted. Alternatives would be Absolutely! Yeah man!, anything like that. but it basically means yes :)
Reference:
https://www.corren.se/kultur-noje/sprakspalten/yes-box-allright-ett-gammalt-skamt-6401816.aspx
3 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks Matt"
1 hr
Per-Erik Nordström
Sweden
Sweden
Native in Swedish
Works in field
Sweden
Linguist | writer | translator
Native in: Swedish (Variants: Rikssvenska, Finlandssvenska, Stockholm) 
Works in: English to Swedish, Swedish to English
-3
2 hrs
Ja ruta
If referring to a box in which you tick or write Yes.
Peer comment(s):
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Christopher Schröder
: Wrong language
1 hr
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Is the client using the 'wrong' language when he says (quote) yes box?
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Agneta Pallinder
: I disagree altogether. The explanation Per-Erik refers to is good. I remember as a kid in Sweden using "jäs, box, ålrajt" as a way of feeling as tough as Pippi Longstocking, and not really paying much attention to what the words were.
3 hrs
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Do you disagree altogether or not at all?
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Anna Herbst
: I agree with Agneta.
12 hrs
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Perhaps the Asker can sort this out. Apparently the client uses both Swedish and English in his text. Is his English bit, ie, 'yes box', referring to a template in the form of a square or a box?
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Discussion
It was not instructions for the insertion of an icon to answer Tania
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