Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
carte obligée
English translation:
One map that's essential
French term
Tunisia
carte obligée
"D’ici, ça ne paraît pas si loin est l’histoire d’une carte. Une carte obligée, celle, administrative, de la Nouvelle-Aquitaine"
I don't understand what "obligée means here, here is more context:
https://www.becair.com/produit/dici-ca-ne-parait-pas-si-loin...
Thank you.
Louisa.
PRO (3): Sandra & Kenneth Grossman, Daryo, B D Finch
Non-PRO (1): Yvonne Gallagher
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Proposed translations
One map that's essential
| Thank you BD Finch :) |
one map that you have to have / one map that you surely need / a must-have map
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Note added at 10 hrs (2020-02-19 16:58:16 GMT)
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one map you have to take a look at
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B D Finch
: I think you are losing sight of the context "D’ici, ça ne paraît pas si loin est l’histoire d’une carte. Une carte obligée, celle, administrative, de la Nouvelle-Aquitaine ..." and that this is an artwork for which they used that map.
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as far as I can see, it's a most literal map - that you need ("must-have") so that you can connect the photos to geographical locations. Is there something else I'm missing?
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José Patrício
: necessitated, required
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Thanks!
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South Africa
a story that must be told [rework the metaphor]
From the ST it's clear that here carte is a metaphor, perhaps one chosen in the wake of the 2015 reorganization of France's regions and the fact that the area in question only really exists on the map, being an administrative construct rather than a traditional or historic region (although the lines between the two are often blurred in France).
Of course you have to continue with the story metaphor and pretty much rework the entire first paragraph, but I'm happy to do that if the meaning and feeling of the ST is preserved and the effect achieved is the same.
[...] is a story, one that must be told and heard, about the new administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, now France's largest and as big as Austria.
An open-ended story with many overlaps about identity, unity and belonging.
Mexico
Confianza, certeza, creatividad.
Native in: Spanish (Variant: Mexican)
Works in: English to Spanish, Italian to Spanish, French to Spanish, and 6 more.
marginalia map
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Daryo
: very tenuous links to this ST + the ref. is about "marginalia" found on maps NOT about maps of "marginalia"
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Discussion
Courant (en épithète) : qui est commandé par l'usage, par les faits… (Le Grand Robert de la langue française) You can't escape it, you cannot not mention it or not think of it that way. You have to see it that way because it is after all an administrative region/boundary: "Une carte obligée, celle, administrative, de la Nouvelle-Aquitaine". To be contrasted, however, with what follows: Une carte aux contours flous..., i.e. yet, it is not that clearly defined in other fields: fait-elle territoire ? Fédère-t-elle ses habitants ? Est-elle porteuse d’un récit ? (https://www.becair.com/produit/dici-ca-ne-parait-pas-si-loin...