Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Dutch term or phrase:
Wij werken volledig digitaal
English translation:
We have a fully paperless office
Dutch term
Belgium
Carpe diem!
Native in: Dutch 
, Flemish
Works in: English to Dutch, French to Dutch, Spanish to Dutch, and 3 more.
Wij werken volledig digitaal
De vertaler heeft "wij werken volledig digitaal" vertaald door "we work completely digitally", wat me tegen de borst stuit. Maar ik vind geen beter alternatief?
Apr 4, 2013 14:29: writeaway changed "Field" from "Marketing" to "Bus/Financial" , "Field (specific)" from "Advertising / Public Relations" to "Business/Commerce (general)"
Apr 5, 2013 20:08: sindy cremer changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
PRO (3): Barend van Zadelhoff, freekfluweel, Johan Venter
Non-PRO (3): CJG (X), Buck, sindy cremer
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Proposed translations
Spain
Word class
Native in: English 
Works in: Spanish to English, Dutch to English, French to English, and 1 more.
We have a fully paperless office
I agree that 'completely digitally' sounds wrong. It makes me think of digits as in fingers, or a digital watch, whereas in Dutch 'digitaal' has a wider meaning.
In Dutch it doesn't sound wrong for instance to say 'een digitaal marketing plan', whereas in English, you wouldn't say 'a digital marketing plan', you'd say 'an e-marketing strategy'.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperless_office
A paperless office is a work environment in which the use of paper is eliminated or greatly reduced. This is done by converting documents and other papers into digital form.
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Michael Beijer
: not so sure the stress should be only on the fact that it is paperless / upon second thought I think I agree with you, although I do think that 'fully electronically' sounds fine in English
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I'm not so sure it should be on anything else to be fair Michael. I don't think that having automated systems is the same as working 'digitaal'. It's one thing to send an e-mail rather than a letter and quite another to automate your e-mail sending.
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Barend van Zadelhoff
: I also think that they mean 'electronically' by 'digitaal'. If so, then I would opt for 'fully electronically'. However, should they mean by 'digitaal' working with documents in digital form (your added reference) then paperless office is a nice solution
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Terry Costin
: do not think anyone will use this in Britain, America, Australia or Canada, etc
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googling it would provide plenty of evidence to the contrary
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all our working processes have been digitalized
United Kingdom
Experienced technical/patent translator
Native in: English (Variants: British, US)
Works in: Dutch to English, Flemish to English, English to Dutch, and 2 more.
all our internal processes have been fully automated
or: all our working processes have been fully automated
Most of the steps have been fully automated, ensuring the highest industry standards.
Today we are very dependent on IT; all of our internal processes have been fully automated specially for the core business like case management, family attestation and notary services.
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Johan Venter
: You're assuming a lot here. Digitaal does not necessarily mean that it is automated, and I did not see any reference to internal processes
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I agree and withdraw this answer.
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writeaway
: agree with Johan. This is picking up the ball and running too far with it. Over-translation.
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See above.
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Terry Costin
: I would say as politely as possible, no way. This is copywriting
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automation of processes MIGHT actually be what they mean (especially since it is a debt collection agency), but without being sure I would keep it more general and just stick with 'electronically'
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From Dutch to clear and perfect English
Native in: English
Works in: Dutch to English, Flemish to English
We operate completely digitally
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Terry Costin
: but fully would be my choice as it IS the word most used, and all of these long sentences and terms are not: fully digital... and BASTA
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United States
Experienced, reliable, detail-oriented
Native in: Dutch
Works in: English to Dutch, Dutch to English
We work fully digitized
Zoek op google naar "fully digitized" voor voorbeelden.
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Verginia Ophof
: agree : we are fully digitized/automated
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Bedankt.
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writeaway
: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/digitized
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Good reference!
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Terry Costin
: we are fully digital
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Andrew Howitt
: You cannot operate 'digitized'. It is gramatically incorrect. You need to have an adverb to qualify the verb and not an adjective or a past participle.
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Okay: all our work is fully digitized.
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United Kingdom
Experienced technical/patent translator
Native in: English (Variants: British, US)
Works in: Dutch to English, Flemish to English, English to Dutch, and 2 more.
we operate completely electronically
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see also: https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&biw=1476&bih=...
Medpeds Associates of Sarasota was one of the first medical offices in Sarasota to operate completely electronically.
As the first joint Standards committee to operate completely electronically, I commended how EL-002 committee members use technology to streamline their processes and said you now have just two 2-day meetings each year.
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writeaway
: as you said in a peer comment to someone who already suggested this, it doesn't really work in English . changing fully to completely does not a new answer make imo /google "we operate completely electronically" and count the ghits
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I beg to differ; I think it does work in English. Just Google "operate completely electronically"
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Barend van Zadelhoff
: I think they mean they have automated their processes. If so, 'electronically' would be the right word in English. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronics // http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital
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Thanks, Barend!
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Terry Costin
: If digital originates from Latin, and was first used in English, how come then if it is translated as Digitaal in Dutch when reversed it becomes something far less specific and to the point and not used that way in English when meaning what it does here?
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Terry, all they mean is that they do everything electronically (rather than with paper, pens, and actual physical filing cabinets) in their office. In everyday English you wouldn't really use the word 'digitally' in an office, but rather 'electronically'.
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Reference comments
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Discussion
When a Dutch person says that all the stuff in their company/office is 'digitaal', they are using the term loosely. They mean electronically. They mean things like email, Outlook calendars, cloud storage etc. The 'e' in 'email' comes from 'Electronic', not 'Digital'.
As well as becoming more widespread, as digital has gained greater significance, so senses with a looser meaning have begun to emerge. Terms such as digital art, digital economy, and digital money are now covered in the revised entry, along with a more general sense: ‘involving or relating to digital or computer technology, esp. the Internet’. Similarly, another new sense—‘designating a virtual, computer-mediated counterpart of an object that exists in the real world’—covers such entities as digital negatives, digital shopping carts, and digital ink. Whole organizations or countries can now be described as digital, when they are seen to adopt or embrace computer technology or the Internet. The OED itself has been cited as an example of this:
1984 N. Y. Mag. 15 Oct. 25/2 The Oxford English Dictionary is going digital. A $10-million, two-year project is now under way to convert the authoritative lexicon into bits and bytes.
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Our office is fully digital
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Why use anything BUT the word digital? If it is digitaal in the original Dutch doc it has to be digital in English.
http://www.premierdental.us/html/waiting_room_1.html
Maar waarom wil cliënt dit vermeld hebben, er zijn toch nauwelijks papieren kantoren meer? Of wil cliënt hiermee aangeven dat zijn kantoor gekoppeld is aan bestanden van banken/gemeentes/kredietinstellingen/justitie etc.? Dan zou ik kiezen voor iets als: direct gekoppeld, met toegang tot xxx-bestanden van officiële instanties, etc.
we collect each and every bit