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ejerce una terrible fascinación y confirmación

English translation: it exerts a terrible fascination and reinforces their behaviour


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Spanish term or phrase:ejerce una terrible fascinación y confirmación
English translation:it exerts a terrible fascination and reinforces their behaviour
Entered by: Charles Davis
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11:03 Jan 6, 2012
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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Death Penalty
Spanish term or phrase: ejerce una terrible fascinación y confirmación
Se puso de manifiesto que ante el crecimiento de la violencia difusa en América Latina y en muchos países, en África y también en las periferias de las grandes ciudades europeas o americanas o asiáticas, la pena de muerte es simplemente inadecuada. No es una medida disuasoria para las bandas criminales y para los reclutadores de los nuevos grupos juveniles, sino que ejerce una terrible fascinación y confirmación.

The death penalty becomes something fascinating and ... confirmacion??
Lorna O'Donoghue
Local time: 06:22
it exerts a terrible fascination and reinforces their behaviour
Explanation:
I think "confirmación" is saying that it makes them more likely to carry on killing: the general idea in this passage is that killing feeds on killing.
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Charles Davis
Local time: 07:22
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Many thanks
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Summary of answers provided
4 +9it exerts a terrible fascination and reinforces their behaviourCharles Davis
3it holds a terrible fascination over them and confirms them in their behaviour
Deborah Lockett


  

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18 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +9
it exerts a terrible fascination and reinforces their behaviour


Explanation:
I think "confirmación" is saying that it makes them more likely to carry on killing: the general idea in this passage is that killing feeds on killing.

Charles Davis
Local time: 07:22
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 80
Grading comment
Many thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Carol Gullidge: this is the sense of confirmación here: - behaviour reinforcement. In fact, I wonder if they really didn't mean "afirmación"...
45 mins
  -> Perhaps, though I think "confirmar" makes sense ("asegurar, dar a alguien o algo mayor firmeza o seguridad"). Many thanks, Carol :)

agree  Gilla Evans
1 hr
  -> Thanks, Gilla!

agree  Alistair Ian Spearing Ortiz
2 hrs
  -> Thanks, Alistair!

agree  Eileen Banks
5 hrs
  -> Thanks, Eileen!

agree  rich.
6 hrs
  -> Thanks, Rich :)

agree  James A. Walsh
7 hrs
  -> Many thanks, James. Hope the Reyes Magos brought you something nice. ;)

agree  gallagy2: Likewise! All the best for 2012. Hope your Xmas and Reyes were good!
11 hrs
  -> Thanks very much, gallagy, and Happy New Year! :) // Yeah, fine, thanks!

agree  Lucy Breen
1 day21 hrs
  -> Many thanks, Lucy :)

agree  Alice Ashley
2 days12 hrs
  -> Many thanks, Alice :)
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
it holds a terrible fascination over them and confirms them in their behaviour


Explanation:
confirmación means that the death penalty confirms the young wrongdoers in their behaviour (perhaps because it makes doing evil tempting for them)

Deborah Lockett
Local time: 06:22
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 139
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