Spanish: acaso de fábulaEnglish translation: perhaps fantastic/hard to believe 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | Spanish term or phrase: | acaso de fábula | | English translation: | perhaps fantastic/hard to believe | | Entered by: | Edward Tully |
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Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / Mexico | | Spanish term or phrase: acaso de fábula | | Por alguna razón, acaso de fábula, [la cía.] ha estado cerca del gusto de los pueblos árabes. |
| | Clarification request(s) and responsepatricia scott: 5:53pm Jan 28, 2007: Hola Patricia, could you give more context, pls?
Patricia Rosas: 6:00pm Jan 28, 2007: This is the opening line of a paragraph (following a paragraph listing the company's artists who have died). The sentences after this one are:
En otros tiempos, compradores de Medio Oriente solicitaban enormes candelabros de plata. Y alguna vez, una princesa saudí que acudía a comprar grandes volúmenes cada dos o tres años les hizo otra propuesta: ...
Patricia Rosas: 3:40pm Jan 30, 2007: Thanks to all of you for the suggestions. I think I left out a key piece of information: this company sold fantastic amounts to Saudi Arabians, so I'm still puzzled about what the author is trying to say, but I appreciate the input.
Patricia Rosas: 3:46pm Jan 30, 2007: "de fábula" - I just found this definition at WordReference:
de fábula: absolutely fine, tremendous: las cosas van de fábula, things are going really well
So, perhaps the right way to put this is: For some reason, perhaps a really good one, ...
That would make more sense to me. The company produces fine objects that are worthy of the attention of Mideastern peoples (and everyone else)...
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 Edward Tully
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| Note from asker to answererThanks, Edward. This is the only answer that in context makes sense...
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| perhaps apocryphal...
Explanation:
Definitely not surreal.
The sense seems to be that the story that follows about the Saudi princess may not be true....
Suerte.
| Robert Forstag
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| perhaps fantastic/hard to believe
Explanation:
"fantastic" in the old sense!
| Edward Tully
Spain
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| Note from asker to answerer| Thanks, Edward. This is the only answer that in context makes sense... |
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| perhaps a fable/ a fable, perhaps...(or due to a fable)
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razón de fábula would mean a fantastic reason - that doesn't seem to be the case, so I suppose it refers to something related to the Princess...
| patricia scott
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| for some reason, perhaps from a fable,
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Note added at 1 hr (2007-01-28 19:23:08 GMT)
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perhaps to keep the fable alive
| Lydia De Jorge
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