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Spanish to English translations [PRO] Social Sciences - Psychology
Spanish term or phrase:el sentido del humor y la comicidad
En especial, saber si el término comicidad se traduciría cómo "comedy", "funniness" or "the comical". Cuál les parece que sería más apropiado, teniendo presente la diferencia que existe en español entre humor y comicidad.
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Explanation: Nota Bene: only in formal contexts....would probably say: sense of humor and sense of what is funny
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Depende del contexto: contexto academico sense of comicality...contexto periodistico: sense of what is funny
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sense of comicality tambien: comic sense..
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... Group ranked a sense of humor important in reaching senior management levels.
... professionals aren\'t the only ones who value ***a strong comic sense. ***... www.creativegroup.com/ Dispatcher?file=/TCG/Feature0700_2 - 13k - Cached - Similar pages
The Sense of Humor
... of having as small ***a sense of humor as did the crusading orders; and, ...
none would be less credited with a comic sense*** than the Teutonic Knights, ...
department.monm.edu/history/ urban/articles/humor_of_Teutonic_Knights.htm - 25k - Cached - Similar pages
Rogue Satire, Black Humor: Comedy and Criticism in Brazilian ...
... Machado\'s great ***comic sense*** is conveyed in the joining of the deep human ...
a voracious appetite for meaty philosophy and a twisted ***sense of humor.**** ... www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v03/Jackson.html - 41k - Cached - Similar pages
Comedy & Tragedy in Indian Life Stories
... Ramirez finds throughout a subtle and empowering sense of humor, ... In this
manner, their comic sense of life empowers Native Americans and ensures ... www.iaiancad.org/nep/courses/ indig1/humor/chapters/comedy.html - 10k - Cached - Similar pages
Explanation: humor can mean many things including a mood, i.e., you can be in a good or bad humor; having a sense of humor means the ability not to take things too seriously. Comicalness is clownish behavior, in other words, acting funny or like a clown or clowning or being a comedian yourself. You can also find something humorous which amuses you and makes you laugh or comical. In this final sense they are almost interchangeable.
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Just to clarify, something can be humorous or comical, it amuses you in both cases--that is when humorous and comical are interchangeable.
Elizabeth Lyons United States Local time: 22:22 Specializes in field Native speaker of: English
Explanation: Nota Bene: only in formal contexts....would probably say: sense of humor and sense of what is funny
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr 50 mins (2005-04-25 22:07:41 GMT) --------------------------------------------------
Depende del contexto: contexto academico sense of comicality...contexto periodistico: sense of what is funny
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr 51 mins (2005-04-25 22:08:08 GMT) --------------------------------------------------
sense of comicality tambien: comic sense..
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs 37 mins (2005-04-25 22:54:27 GMT) --------------------------------------------------
... Group ranked a sense of humor important in reaching senior management levels.
... professionals aren\'t the only ones who value ***a strong comic sense. ***... www.creativegroup.com/ Dispatcher?file=/TCG/Feature0700_2 - 13k - Cached - Similar pages
The Sense of Humor
... of having as small ***a sense of humor as did the crusading orders; and, ...
none would be less credited with a comic sense*** than the Teutonic Knights, ...
department.monm.edu/history/ urban/articles/humor_of_Teutonic_Knights.htm - 25k - Cached - Similar pages
Rogue Satire, Black Humor: Comedy and Criticism in Brazilian ...
... Machado\'s great ***comic sense*** is conveyed in the joining of the deep human ...
a voracious appetite for meaty philosophy and a twisted ***sense of humor.**** ... www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v03/Jackson.html - 41k - Cached - Similar pages
Comedy & Tragedy in Indian Life Stories
... Ramirez finds throughout a subtle and empowering sense of humor, ... In this
manner, their comic sense of life empowers Native Americans and ensures ... www.iaiancad.org/nep/courses/ indig1/humor/chapters/comedy.html - 10k - Cached - Similar pages
FInal: sense of humor and comic sense
Jane Lamb-Ruiz Works in field Native speaker of: English, Portuguese PRO pts in category: 43
Explanation: Humour: Exceptionally keen sense of the comical, the bizarre, absurd.
Motivation: Intense desire to know, do, feel, create, or understand. ...
www2.sd43.bc.ca/gifted/ Documents/What%20is%20Giftedness.doc
sense of what is comical
xxxCMJ_Trans Local time: 07:22 Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 12
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