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Tambien el proceso inexplicado aùn para convertirse en un deporte de masas

English translation: sport of the masses

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Spanish term or phrase:deporte de masas
English translation:sport of the masses
Entered by: Parrot

11:26 May 17, 2003
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Spanish term or phrase: Tambien el proceso inexplicado aùn para convertirse en un deporte de masas
I have a problem with the structure of the whole sentence.
A su favor cuentan a sencillez de sus reglas, la capacidad inegualable para generar tension y placer en la competencia y situaciones esteticas inegalables. Tambien el proceso inexplicado aùn para convertirse en un deporte de masas, en un "esperanto deportivo" segun la cita de una cientista social norte americana.
Se trata del futbol.
berne
Local time: 13:53
There is also the process, still unaccounted for, by which
Explanation:
it becomes (has become?) a sport of the masses, [an "Esperanto of the sporting world"...]
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Parrot
Spain
Local time: 10:23
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5Also the still unexplained process of becoming a sport for the masses
Michael Powers (PhD)
5no verb; it is a fragment; see solution below
Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
4There is also the process, still unaccounted for, by which
Parrot


  

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Also the still unexplained process of becoming a sport for the masses


Explanation:
Since the emphasis of the entire paragraph is on arguing why soccer should have already taken hold, and then in counterpoint its unexplained failure to do so, it is more emphatic to state "a sport for the masses" instead of "a mass sport"

Michael Powers (PhD)
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There is also the process, still unaccounted for, by which


Explanation:
it becomes (has become?) a sport of the masses, [an "Esperanto of the sporting world"...]

Parrot
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Local time: 10:23
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no verb; it is a fragment; see solution below


Explanation:
What's going on:

There is a list of reasons why football is cool;
"X, Y and Z (arguments) are among the arguments in favor of it. ALSO, THERE IS the still unexplained etc. etc, according to one North American social scientist."

In English, stylistically, you need to get rid of the fragement and make it a real sentence. You can do this by adding what I have in caps.

Now it flows

Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
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