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17:34 Apr 13, 2016 |
Spanish to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Linguistics | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Charles Davis Spain Local time: 21:21 | ||||||
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4 +3 | turned / stood on their heads |
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4 +1 | traduced |
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4 | at the other end of the scale |
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4 | inverted |
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4 | turned upside-down |
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at the other end of the scale Explanation: cambiadas de signo refers to the shift from political left to the right |
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traduced Explanation: = their meanings betrayed/traduced/inverted/misappropriated/turned around... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 31 mins (2016-04-13 18:06:01 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "...it is to have one's own sacred lore appropriated and traduced"... https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/the-fake-with-the... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 32 mins (2016-04-13 18:07:01 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "there's little if any music of this kind around today, the dynamics and scope of hard rock having long since been appropriated and traduced by all manner of gurning, hair-metal stadium chumps…" -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 33 mins (2016-04-13 18:07:26 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- http://blogcritics.org/rocket-from-the-tombs/ -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 40 mins (2016-04-13 18:14:49 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- In fact, instead of "appropriated and traduced" I might consider the more emotive "hijacked and traduced", as in this excerpt: "...the ethos of the Jarrow March has been hijacked and traduced by ..." http://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/nov/12/oil.comment -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 41 mins (2016-04-13 18:15:50 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Or here: "it is saddening to see long held precepts hijacked and traduced,..." http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2001-12-27/news... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 42 mins (2016-04-13 18:17:03 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Trending topic: "ISIS have nothing to do with their kind of 'moderate' Islam which has been hijacked and traduced by this uniquely savage and malicious misrepresentation..." http://themuslimfaculty.org/radicalisation-ideological-chime... Reference: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/traduce Reference: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/traduce |
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +3
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