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rêverie technique

English translation: dream-state technique


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21:38 Jun 14, 2011
French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / sculpture
French term or phrase: rêverie technique
The oxymoron text again:
"C’est bien à une rêverie technique à laquelle je me livre en ce moment, pour paradoxal que cela soit!"
Maybe this "rêverie technique" is a true oxymoron? Fatigue is setting in, so I'll see what you think at breakfast time. TIA
kashew
France
Local time: 07:41
English translation:dream-state technique
Explanation:
He wanders off into a stream of subconscious oxymorons.
This is probably when his concentration is at its highest ("paradoxal").
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Mike Birch
Local time: 06:41
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3 +1dream-state techniqueMike Birch
3reverie techniquegallagy2
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technique reverie
spielenschach1

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14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
dream-state technique


Explanation:
He wanders off into a stream of subconscious oxymorons.
This is probably when his concentration is at its highest ("paradoxal").

Mike Birch
Local time: 06:41
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4

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agree  piazza d
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  -> thanks
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reverie technique


Explanation:
Text does use the word paradoxical so probably is an oxymoron

anything to do with Dianetics I wonder? (Now there's an oxymoron with apologies to any "Scientologists" out there


L. Ron Hubbard - 2007 - Antiques & Collectibles - 677 pages
For by return with standard reverie technique, the source is approached; and if the source is contacted at all, the power of the engram to aberrate has ...
books.google.ie/books?isbn=140314446X...


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Also you can say that you've used the reverie technique to 'hypnotize' someone but you could also tell me that 'Porky got a pilot's license' ...
www.scnforum.org/index.php?t=post&reply_to=1538...S... - Cached


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Note added at 15 hrs (2011-06-15 13:09:24 GMT)
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yes, "power of engram to aberrate" is typical Hubbardspeak!

gallagy2
Ireland
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Asker: "power of the engram to aberrate" - that's brilliant!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Didier Fourcot: My understanding (for what it is worth of this "charabia") is "a technique of reverie" with "technique" a noun when in the French source it is an adjective (technical reverie)?
10 hrs
  -> yeah, think it's "technique" (n) rather than reverie but in any case it's a bit mumbo-jumbo
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Reference: technique reverie

Reference information:
http://www.google.pt/search?source=ig&hl=pt-PT&rlz=&q=oxímor...

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Portugal
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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