Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
Gran Púbico
English translation:
public at large
Added to glossary by
spanruss
Jan 27, 2007 22:10
17 yrs ago
Spanish term
Gran Púbico
Spanish to English
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Media / Multimedia
I heard a broadcast on the radio yesterday, in which they were discussing the amount of media attention spent on the Iraq war versus other mundane subjects, such as celebrity news. The theory was that publishing companies are ignoring public opinion polls in deciding what to print. The people or public were referred to several times as "Gran Público".
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David Hollywood
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worked for int. orgs (IMF, OAS, IDB)
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public at large
one option
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general public = another option
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Politicians and the public at large are now strongly opposed to the large- ... el gran público se oponen ahora con firmeza al sacrificio a gran escala de ...
www.oie.int/eng/publicat/rt/2103/3.8.Pluimers.pdf - Similar pages
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ultimately, the general public. One of the greatest concerns is the ... por último, el gran público. Uno de los temas que más inquietud suscita es el ...
www.oie.int/eng/publicat/rt/2401/24-1 pdfs/29-smetanka335-3... - Similar pages
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In light of your clarification, how about "(broad/general) book-buying public"?
long gone is its reputation as having a marvellously broad and deep range. ... of the industry and the book-buying public then the take-over will be OK. ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/money/2... - 16k - Cached - Similar pages
The Value Of Readers | BooksquareIf you want to introduce a broader audience to Yiddish theater or disaffected ... that says to a large segment of the book-buying public “nothing to see, ...
www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/10/27/2194/ - 34k - Cached - Similar pages
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Despite his resentment toward the book-buying public,. Melville was virtually obsessed ... raised by the Ruth Hall phenomenon in broader terms: why does ...
alh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/7/1/151.pdf - Similar pages
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general public = another option
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Note added at 5 mins (2007-01-27 22:16:28 GMT)
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Politicians and the public at large are now strongly opposed to the large- ... el gran público se oponen ahora con firmeza al sacrificio a gran escala de ...
www.oie.int/eng/publicat/rt/2103/3.8.Pluimers.pdf - Similar pages
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Note added at 10 mins (2007-01-27 22:21:36 GMT)
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ultimately, the general public. One of the greatest concerns is the ... por último, el gran público. Uno de los temas que más inquietud suscita es el ...
www.oie.int/eng/publicat/rt/2401/24-1 pdfs/29-smetanka335-3... - Similar pages
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Note added at 1 hr (2007-01-27 23:20:59 GMT)
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In light of your clarification, how about "(broad/general) book-buying public"?
long gone is its reputation as having a marvellously broad and deep range. ... of the industry and the book-buying public then the take-over will be OK. ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/money/2... - 16k - Cached - Similar pages
The Value Of Readers | BooksquareIf you want to introduce a broader audience to Yiddish theater or disaffected ... that says to a large segment of the book-buying public “nothing to see, ...
www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/10/27/2194/ - 34k - Cached - Similar pages
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Note added at 1 hr (2007-01-27 23:23:24 GMT)
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Despite his resentment toward the book-buying public,. Melville was virtually obsessed ... raised by the Ruth Hall phenomenon in broader terms: why does ...
alh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/7/1/151.pdf - Similar pages
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Comment: "Thanks, David."
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Alfredo Tanús
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Big Audiences
Público for a radio or TV broadcast is also referred as "audience"
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Margaret Schroeder
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Mexico
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Mexico
The right words in the right place.
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public, readership
In English, el gran público is simply "the public," or, in this case, since it is talking about print, you could also say "the reading public" or "readership."
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mainstream audiences/readers
Hi spanruss.
Looks like you're going to be spoilt for choice on this one.
While agreeing with GoodWords and David, I'm under the impression that 'gran público' may have been used, perhaps slightly condescendingly, to refer to what in other times may have been termed 'the masses'.
Although we are talking about books, and thus readership is a more precise term, mainstream audiences is widely used, even in this context (strange, when you don't listen to books, but that's the way it is). More fittingly you could say 'mainstream readers'.
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Re. typo, el gran púbico could always refer to Playboy readers. ;O) ;O)
Looks like you're going to be spoilt for choice on this one.
While agreeing with GoodWords and David, I'm under the impression that 'gran público' may have been used, perhaps slightly condescendingly, to refer to what in other times may have been termed 'the masses'.
Although we are talking about books, and thus readership is a more precise term, mainstream audiences is widely used, even in this context (strange, when you don't listen to books, but that's the way it is). More fittingly you could say 'mainstream readers'.
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Re. typo, el gran púbico could always refer to Playboy readers. ;O) ;O)
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Margaret Schroeder
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Gracias GW - el no ser nativo siempre me deja una sombrita de duda, de excesiva osadía... :O) :O)
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Nina Breebaart
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great public
great/vast public
gran before the noun does not have the same meaning as grande after the noun
gran before the noun does not have the same meaning as grande after the noun
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most readers - readers in general/audiences
I think if you refer to books, el gran público in English is still referred to as most readers - big audiences in the case of best sellers, e.g., are huge number of copies sold or huge number of readers. I do agree with Alvaro, that el gran público somewhat describes "the masses" - a way of saying people who are not specially selective.
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Lydia De Jorge
United States
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general public
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Aïda Garcia Pons
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United States
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Spanish term (edited):
Gran Público
masses
I wonder if you could also use "for the masses". It's understood that in this case "the masses" buy books.
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Noni Gilbert Riley
Spain
Spain
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Spain
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Joe Public
Don't suppose you need any more alternatives, since there are perfectly satisfactory ones already up there - but another for the record on this subject.
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