Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

La prensa diaria que agotaba ya públicos antiguos

English translation:

Traditional readers of the daily press were quickly superseded

Added to glossary by James A. Walsh
Jun 10, 2011 16:47
12 yrs ago
Spanish term

que agotaba ya públicos antiguos

Spanish to English Tech/Engineering Media / Multimedia
La prensa masiva y popular solo fue posible en el Perú luego de la histórica migración andina que cambió el rostro de Lima. La prensa diaria *que agotaba ya públicos antiguos* encontró en las nuevas masas un gran mercado de lectores que preferían nuevas formas de expresión y modelos de identificación.
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Jun 18, 2011 13:23: James A. Walsh Created KOG entry

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Traditional readers [...] were quickly superseded


I find any sort of literal rendering too awkward and clumsy in English, so would suggest paraphrasing it along these lines...

Example sentence:

La prensa diaria <u>que agotaba ya públicos antiguos</u> encontró en las nuevas masas un gran mercado de lectores que preferían nuevas formas de expresión y modelos de identificación.

<u>Traditional readers</u> of the daily press <u>were quickly superseded</u> by a large market of readers in the new masses that preferred new forms of expression and role models.

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which had exhausted the potential of its traditional readership

possibly
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agree franglish
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which was already meeting the needs of its readers

I think that this works better than using "exhausted." I also think that "traditional" can be dispensed with.

Suerte.
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was reaching a saturation point with its traditional readership base

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