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Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Philosophy | | Spanish term or phrase: continencia | section:
"Memoria e Historia son idénticas. Son la imposibilidad misma del Control.
El mundo es un archipiélago en el tiempo. Cada universo es una macroisla que ya dentro de su propia continencia, parpadea. Pero el espacio-tiempo muta, y su información se extravía para siempre y donde anteriormente estaba su cuerpo ahora hay otro diferente, obediente a leyes otras, y entre universo y universo, la ilusión de la fijeza."
This is from a very literary text, with lots of word place.
Would you translate continencia here as "moderation"? Perhaps something like: The world is an archepelago in time. Each universe is a macro-island that in its own moderation, pulses.
Other approaches/suggestions?
Country of origin: Mexico. |
| Brian WhitenerKudoZ activityQuestions: 38 ( 2 open) ( 1 without valid answers) ( 1 closed without grading) Answers: 0
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| | containment / self-containment | Explanation:
I don't understand "continencia" in the sense of "moderation", but in the sense of DRAE definition nº 3:
"Acción de contener"
http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/
the clue to this is that each universe is a "micro-island", in other words "self-contained". |
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| Grading comment Thanks. Good suggestion.
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5 hrs confidence: | dentro de su propia continencia contained within its own completeness
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irresistible este pequeño rompecabezas...! ahí va mi humilde ensayo de solución, que agarra un poquito por otro camino. no sé si la pegué, pero la aliteración me cae bien. me gustan los otros intentos; DLyons, creo que acertaste en identificar esa acepción en Moliner...
Example sentence(s):- Every Universe is a vast twinkling Island, wholly contained within its own completeness.
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11 hrs confidence: typo: contingencia
Explanation:
This is how I immediately read it, as 'de su propia contingencia', which is a common phrase in philosophy.
This is backed up by a Google search, which gives us 10,200 results for this exact phrase, and exactly three results - including a link to this question - for 'de su propia continencia'.
So "Each universe is a macro-island which, in its own contingency, blinks", or something to that effect. The author appears to be making some contingency-necessity ('fijeza'?) distinction. Not that this helps make the text much more comprehensible, unfortunately - as you say it is more literary than philosophical!
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Note added at 11 hrs (2011-08-01 11:19:01 GMT)
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'flickers' or 'pulses' is much better than 'blinks', as others have suggested.
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