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O comentário não procede

English translation: Unfounded


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17:17 Nov 12, 2009
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Linguistics
Portuguese term or phrase: O comentário não procede
Contexto:
Gostaríamos que reavaliassem este comentário, pois do nosso ponto de vista ele não procede.

Uma tradução mais formal para não procede.

Grato.
anandsing
English translation:Unfounded
Explanation:
sem fundamento
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Nadja B Batdorf
United States
Local time: 04:09
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Summary of answers provided
3 +11Unfounded
Nadja B Batdorf
4 +1the comment doesn't hold waterFausto Machado Tiemann
5the comment is not fair (or consistent or just)
Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
4 +1the comment / remark cannot be inferredLeonor Machado
4lacks valid grounds
Paul Dixon
3it is ungrounded
Clauwolf


  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +11
o comentário não procede
Unfounded


Explanation:
sem fundamento

Nadja B Batdorf
United States
Local time: 04:09
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Teresa Borges
13 mins
agree  Isabel Maria Almeida
22 mins
agree  Verginia Ophof
22 mins
agree  Andréa Mostaço
30 mins
agree  João Araújo
1 hr
agree  Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
1 hr
agree  Marlene Curtis
1 hr
agree  Adriana Maciel
7 hrs
agree  David Drysdale
11 hrs
agree  Marcelo Gonçalves
20 hrs
agree  · george ·
12 days
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
o comentário não procede
the comment / remark cannot be inferred


Explanation:


Leonor Machado
Local time: 12:09
Native speaker of: Portuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Muriel Vasconcellos: In this context, I think it's the best anwser.
11 hrs
  -> Obg
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
o comentário não procede
the comment is not fair (or consistent or just)


Explanation:
proceder
8 mostrar-se verdadeiro; justificar-se
Ex.: a sua acusação não procede

#
A sourcebook of Canadian media law - Resultado da Pesquisa de livros do Google
de Robert Martin, Gordon Stuart Adam - 1994 - Law - 869 páginas
If the answer to this question is no, the comment is not fair. If the answer is yes, a further, subjective question ...
books.google.no/books?isbn=088629231X... -
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The third man: reform of the Australasian defamation defences - Resultado da Pesquisa de livros do Google
de Michael Gillooly - 2004 - Law - 247 páginas
... then the comment is not fair and it is immaterial that someone else who was unaffected by malice could have made exactly the same comment.57 Where the ...
books.google.no/books?isbn=1862874891... -

Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
Norway
Local time: 13:09
Native speaker of: Native in NorwegianNorwegian, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 8
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37 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
the comment doesn't hold water


Explanation:
Just another option.

http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/hold water.html

http://www.google.com.br/#hl=pt-BR&q="comment doesn't hold w...

Fausto Machado Tiemann
Brazil
Local time: 08:09
Works in field
Native speaker of: Portuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Andréa Mostaço
0 min
  -> Grato, Andréa!
agree  Charlesp
57 mins
  -> Thanks!
disagree  David Drysdale: Too informal . .
11 hrs
  -> You're probably right, David. "Procede" is rather formal. Thanks!
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
it is ungrounded


Explanation:
:)

Clauwolf
Local time: 08:09
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 24
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
lacks valid grounds


Explanation:
Suggestion.

Paul Dixon
Local time: 08:09
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 32
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Language pairEnglish to Portuguese => Portuguese to English


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