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English translation: (by scrapping whole parts of the text) no need to clean up the writing style

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French term or phrase:	permet de ne pas censurer l\'écriture
English translation:	(by scrapping whole parts of the text) no need to clean up the writing style
Entered by:	Lilian Magalhães

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18:08 Aug 31, 2009

French to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. / etnografia

French term or phrase: permet de ne pas censurer l'écriture

Le journal de terrain est constitutif du métier d'ethnographe; mais ce n'est qu'un ensemble épars de notes hétérogènes. Sa publication, en respectant un classement chornologique, crée la fiction romanesque d'un narrateur-ethnographe. Censurer la publication permet de ne pas censurer l'écriture. Les matériaux censurés ne sont pas de l'ordre de l'intime mais
de l'ordre du non (encore) intelligible.

Lilian Magalhães KudoZ activity Questions: 2979 (5 open) (2 without valid answers) (53 closed without grading) Answers: 41
Local time: 18:45

(by scrapping whole parts of the text) no need to clean up the writing style

Explanation:
it is not necessary to make value judgements about the writing (style)

The translation is rather loose but I wanted to convey how I understand the whole thing

Selected response from:

polyglot45

Grading comment

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Summary of answers provided

3 +1

actually makes the content more explicit

Eutychus

3 +1

(by scrapping whole parts of the text) no need to clean up the writing style

polyglot45

Will not censor the writing itself

Mariana CHIRILA

means no (self-)censorship is required when writing

Melissa McMahon

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19 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

actually makes the content more explicit

Explanation:
See explanation of the other question. They are trying to justify not including some material ("censurer") and say that this does not actually amount to censorship, on the contrary it actually makes the content more, not less, explicit; it does not amount to censorship of the substatial content.

Eutychus
Local time: 23:45
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 15

40 mins confidence:

Will not censor the writing itself

Explanation:
je propose cela

Mariana CHIRILA
France
Local time: 23:45
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Romanian,

French

10 hrs confidence:

means no (self-)censorship is required when writing

Explanation:
The author seems to be talking more about editing than censorship in the conventional sense (and that may be her point): the transformation of a "scattered collection" of notes into a coherent narrative - as she says, what is left out in the published version isn't "forbidden" content, just meaningless/unstructured material.

Suggest something like:
"Being selective when it comes to publication means no (self-)censorship is required when writing."

Melissa McMahon
Australia
Local time: 07:45
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 16

13 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

(by scrapping whole parts of the text) no need to clean up the writing style

Explanation:
it is not necessary to make value judgements about the writing (style)

The translation is rather loose but I wanted to convey how I understand the whole thing

polyglot45
Native speaker of:

English,

French
PRO pts in category: 18

Grading comment

thanks

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