Glossary entry

Polish term or phrase:

we wzajemnie przenikających się

English translation:

mutually pervasive

Added to glossary by Caryl Swift
Jun 22, 2006 14:33
17 yrs ago
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Polish term

we wzajemnie przenikających się

Polish to English Art/Literary Cinema, Film, TV, Drama Press release for a play
Description of a theatre production:

The action is played out in a double space – in the spheres of the sacred and the profane.

? "Mutually pervasive/pervading/invasive"? Will one of these do?

Thank you in advance! :-)
Change log

Jun 22, 2006 15:10: Aleksandra Kwasnik changed "Language pair" from "English to Polish" to "Polish to English"

Proposed translations

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mutually pervasive

Your version is perfect.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you all very much! I was spoiled for choice! I weny for this in the end because it's probably the least poetic - and that fits the 'voice' of the text. :-)"
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merging (or interpenetrating)

in my opinion that's the English equivalent of "wzajemnie się przenikające"
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intertwined

inna mozliwosc.
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interfusing

propo;
or perhaps: 'mutually overlapping';
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interacting

ewentualnie
dialectic
The action is played out in a double space – in the dialectic spheres of the sacred and the profane
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interweaving, permeating

It depends on the context and I'm not sure what it is...
Peer comment(s):

agree Malina9
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in mutually interfering

I am not completely sure if this translation fits to the context of your text, however in many technical publications the phrase I suggested very often means polish "we wzajemnie przenikających się" (signals, electromagnetic waves, etc.).
Example sentence:

Mutually interfering radio signals very often cause bad reception.

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intermingling

yet another option

... With a focus on the intermingling spheres of popular art, graffiti, and photography, everyone from the Andy Warhol ...
www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0509,zappia7,61619,15.html

... pretend that logic is sufficient to access the wondrous, intermingling spheres of reality should be read with suspicion ...
www.eschatonbooks.com/eschaton/books/114/114-p3.html

Pierre Bourdieu
... as a separate subspace) by differentiating itself from the long-intermingled spheres of theology and of philosophy ...
www.compilerpress.atfreeweb.com/Anno Bourdieu The Peculiar History of S...
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