French term
dépouillé
| 4 +3 | stripped down |
Philippa Smith
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| 3 +3 | sparse |
Rob Grayson
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| 4 | austere |
Gill Zschunke
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| 3 | unpretentious |
aubreydewet
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| 3 | stark |
polyglot45
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Jun 8, 2009 10:39: changed "Kudoz queue" from "In queue" to "Public"
Jun 8, 2009 11:02: Philippa Smith changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Non-PRO (3): Helen Shiner, Ingeborg Gowans (X), Philippa Smith
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Proposed translations
29 years turning out perfect English
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English
stripped down
Meaning a plain style of writing, with no extraneous words....You could also try "pared back".
South Africa
Native in: Afrikaans 
Works in: English to Afrikaans, Afrikaans to English, French to Afrikaans, and 1 more.
unpretentious
sparse
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Helen Shiner
: I like 'spare' here. But are all of these options - yours and everyone else's - not available in a dictionary?
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Thanks Helen... and yes, of course they are! Nothing you couldn't come up with armed with a dico and a thesaurus...
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Anne-Marie Grant (X)
: I like 'unadorned' too
7 mins
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Thanks, Anne-Marie
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Ingeborg Gowans (X)
: sparse would have been my choice, but as you said, could have easily been found in any dico
14 mins
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Thanks, Ingeborg
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Native in: English , French
Works in: English to French, French to English, German to French, and 4 more.
stark
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