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characteristic generalizations

Arabic translation: ما يُميّز تلك الفترة من تَعميمات


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English term or phrase:characteristic generalizations
Arabic translation:ما يُميّز تلك الفترة من تَعميمات
Entered by: Hazar Mohy Eddin
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16:14 Feb 28, 2006
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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
English term or phrase: characteristic generalizations
falls in altogether too unresistingly with the characteristic generalizations, national personifications and self desingnations of the period.
Hazar Mohy Eddin
Local time: 15:50
ما يُميّز تلك الفترة من تَعميمات
Explanation:
Since the modifer "characteristic" applies to the three noun items that follow, the best approach is to rephrase the sentence in this manner to avoid any confusion.
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Fuad Yahya
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5 +1ما يُميّز تلك الفترة من تَعميماتFuad Yahya
5التعميمات الوصفية
Ala Rabie


  

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التعميمات الوصفية


Explanation:
Or, interstingly,
"التعميمات، الشخصنة الوطنية، و الدلالات الذاتية المميزة للحقبة."

"the charatceristic generalizations, [the characteristic] national personifications, and [the characteristic] self designations of the period."


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Note added at 16 mins (2006-02-28 16:30:54 GMT)
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...the three of them are of the characteristics of the period.

If I may, I would strongly recommend "التعميمات، الشخصنة الوطنية، و الدلالات الذاتية المميزة للحقبة."

Ala Rabie
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
ما يُميّز تلك الفترة من تَعميمات


Explanation:
Since the modifer "characteristic" applies to the three noun items that follow, the best approach is to rephrase the sentence in this manner to avoid any confusion.

Fuad Yahya
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 90
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