jalkamaa
English translation: has no consular representation
| 17:48 Nov 6, 2008 |
| Finnish to English translations [PRO] Poetry & Literature / X suurlähetystö hoitaa maata X jalkamaana. | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Spencer Allman United Kingdom Local time: 19:19 | ||||||
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| 3 | representation through dual accreditation |
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| 3 | has no consular representation |
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| 1 | dependency |
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| 1 | satellite |
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| 1 | linked |
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dependency Explanation: What is the Finnish definition for jalkamaa? |
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satellite Explanation: I don't know but it is an interesting question Is the UK a satellite of the USA? (for example) |
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linked Explanation: Using the examples of Sweden and Finland, this concept could be translated as something like this: "The X embassy treats Finland as a linked/associated/related country and looks after all matters to do with Finland through its embassy in Sweden." If you want to bring in the derogatory nature of "jalkamaa", you could also say e.g. "...treats Finland almost as a part of Sweden and therefore looks after all matters to do with Finland through its embassy in Sweden..." or something like that. |
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representation through dual accreditation Explanation: So this isn't a direct translation, but I can't seem to find a word referring to a country that doesn't have an ambassador in residence, but which has accredited an ambassador who lives in a nearby country. There may be such a word. In any case, when an ambassador is assigned to multiple countries, this is called dual accreditation. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 52 mins (2008-11-06 18:41:22 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Whipping boy! Dogsbody! Footstool! j/k Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_accreditation |
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2 days 17 hrs confidence:
has no consular representation Explanation: this is what we would normally say, I think but, of course, this is not derogatory, as my former suggestion (not an excellent one, I admit) was |
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