English term
31 years experience with thanks.
Native in: Japanese (Variant: Standard-Japan) 
Works in: Japanese to English, English to Japanese
Sole
Please tell me about the word "sole."
There is no context.
I do not understand this word.
Thank you.
| 3 +7 | Soul/sole |
Jennifer Caisley
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Non-PRO (2): Yvonne Gallagher, Christopher Schröder
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Responses
United Kingdom
Flawless translations of corporate texts
Native in: English (Variant: UK)
Works in: German to English, English
Soul/sole
At first glance, I'd assume this is a pun on the word "sole" as in the "bottom of a shoe" and "soul" as in "spirit" - if I had to guess, I'd wager this was an ad for a footwear company?
If that's right, they're hinting at "show us you have soul", as in, show us you've got passion/spirit etc., but doing a play on words with "sole" to refer to their shoes
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Yvonne Gallagher
: of course. Funny how there is never any context
1 min
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Charles R.
1 hr
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| agree |
Kourosh Fallah
1 hr
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| agree |
Mark Robertson
: Fishy
2 hrs
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writeaway
: And with Mark
2 hrs
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| agree |
Andrew Paul Kennett
6 hrs
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| agree |
Charlie Sørensen
19 hrs
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Daryo
: very plausible, but there are other equally plausible alternative explanations that do not include any pun.
19 hrs
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Discussion
Could be an intended pun, could be an autocorrect misbehaving, could be ....
What is the whole story about? Who is talking to whom? Is that part of a video, or of a static picture? ...
I very much doubt this sentence was discovered all alone on a piece of paper that just popped out of thin air ... or in a paperless version: as just a transient glitch on the computer screen.
https://showyoursole.org/