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grinding detail

Spanish translation: detalle minucioso


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English term or phrase:grinding detail
Spanish translation:detalle minucioso
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21:35 Mar 27, 2008
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Art/Literary - Archaeology / ensayo
English term or phrase: grinding detail
These texts are full of the ‘grinding detail’ that characterises the bureaucratic state. In the case of Vindolanda, this ‘grinding detail’, the precise and detailed communication which writing facilitated, ‘goes a long way to explain how the Roman army exerted such effective control over such large areas with so few troops’ (Bowman 1994)
neskatxoa
Local time: 11:04
detalle minucioso
Explanation:
:)

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Note added at 9 mins (2008-03-27 21:44:28 GMT)
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quizá también *detalle obsesivo*
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Jesús Cordero-Salvado
Local time: 10:04
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gracias
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5prolijos detalles
Sandra Rodriguez
4 +1detalle minucioso
Jesús Cordero-Salvado


  

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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
detalle minucioso


Explanation:
:)

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Note added at 9 mins (2008-03-27 21:44:28 GMT)
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quizá también *detalle obsesivo*

Jesús Cordero-Salvado
Local time: 10:04
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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gracias

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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
prolijos detalles


Explanation:
prolijo, ja.

(Del lat. prolīxus).

1. adj. Largo, dilatado con exceso.

2. adj. Cuidadoso o esmerado.

3. adj. Impertinente, pesado, molesto.

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Sandra Rodriguez
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Local time: 05:04
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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