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English translation: so lacking is his knowledge and understanding due to...

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French term or phrase:	tant sa part d'insu
English translation:	so lacking is his knowledge and understanding due to...

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20:13 Aug 28, 2011

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Social Sciences - Psychology / industrial psychology

French term or phrase: tant sa part d'insu

L'acces au travail reel n'est jamais donne, offert, y compris pour son auteur lui-meme, tant sa part d'insu, de meconnu est grande, du fait des differents filtres et freins au devoilement et a l'eboration de l'activite.

This is a long article and this sentence is pretty indicative of the general style, IMO, wordy and redundant. I'm slogging my way through fairly successfully, but I just can get anywhere with this phrase "tant sa part d'insu"

my guesses are "unless he is unaware" or "to the extent that he is unaware"

Jeanne Leone KudoZ activity Questions: 5 (none open) Answers: 2
Local time: 14:56

so lacking is his knowledge and understanding due to...

Explanation:
My understanding here is that the subject is never given access to "real work" because there are "filtres et freins" obstructing his global view of what the purpose of the work is, and as a result, he lacks knowledge and understanding of the overall process. I tried to go for an odd but legitimate literary connecting clause (so x is...) that seems as florid as the source text.

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Andrew Levine
United States
Local time: 14:56

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This translation was most appropriate to the tone and style of the source text.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +1

since there is so much he doesn't know or doesn't know properly

melanya

4 +1

so lacking is his knowledge and understanding due to...

Andrew Levine

as there is much he fails to know and understand

mimi 254

Discussion entries: 6

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31 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

since there is so much he doesn't know or doesn't know properly

Explanation:
sa part and grande go together
tant = so much as the previous comment pointed out

I've used "since" because I wante dto keep "given" for the next word of the sentence

melanya
Local time: 19:56
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English

10 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

tant sa part d'insu, de meconnu est grande du fait...

so lacking is his knowledge and understanding due to...

Andrew Levine
United States
Local time: 14:56
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

This translation was most appropriate to the tone and style of the source text.

Notes to answerer

Asker: All the answers I got were very helpful, but I have the most confidence in this one mainly because you seemed to also take into account the style and tone of the author.

14 hrs confidence:

as there is much he fails to know and understand

Explanation:
since the extent of his lack of knowledge and understanding is great

mimi 254
Local time: 19:56
Native speaker of:

English,

French

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