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English translation: representative/symbolic/iconic/emblematic/landmark/milestone/hallmark/typical/outstanding/significant

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Spanish term or phrase:	emblemático
English translation:	representative/symbolic/iconic/emblematic/landmark/milestone/hallmark/typical/outstanding/significant
Entered by:	Noni Gilbert

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12:17 Mar 13, 2007

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Tourism & Travel / Script for tour guide

Spanish term or phrase: emblemático

..es nuestro monumento más emblemático...
Emblematic just doesn´t seem to fit the bill. Also, googling reveals that almost all the times this word is used in a tourist context, it is in a text written about Spain, which makes me smell a "calco" rat. Any thoughts?

Noni Gilbert KudoZ activity Questions: 138 (none open) (8 closed without grading) Answers: 3714
Local time: 09:59

symbolic/representative/iconic/vivid

Explanation:
start here and work on.....

hallmark
landmark

In fact they probably only mean it is the best-known....

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xxxCMJ_Trans
Local time: 09:59

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Summary of answers provided

4 +6

emblematic

neilmac

4 +3

symbolic/representative/iconic/vivid

xxxCMJ_Trans

3 +3

symbolic , representative

German Gonzalez

significant

Aïda Garcia Pons

representative

Sheilann

milestone (see below)

patricia scott

Discussion entries: 4

Answers

3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

emblematic

Explanation:
Or "our most outstanding" if you prefer... but "emblematic" is perfectly good English.

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Note added at 6 mins (2007-03-13 12:23:16 GMT)
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If you really don't like "emblematic", try "typical" unless you've used that already. The problem with these texts is that they want to wax lyrical about many things yet have a limited lexis with which to do so, and there are only so many times you can say "outstanding" before it becomes devalued.

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Note added at 6 mins (2007-03-13 12:23:58 GMT)
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Not a calc, nor a rat IMO.

neilmac
Spain
Local time: 09:59
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 57

Notes to answerer

Asker: Yes - maybe I´m being oversensitive - always worry about speaking Spanglish!

11 mins confidence:

significant

Explanation:
This is just another option, as I'm sure you'll get plenty more.

I like neilmac's "outstanding" too.

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Note added at 15 mins (2007-03-13 12:33:00 GMT)
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A couple of examples with "most significant":
1) "He builds a house for himself at Ramsgate, one of the best examples of his domestic manner, and work begins on his own church of St Augustine, possibly his most significant building. He takes on his only pupil, J. H. Powell, who subsequently becomes an important designer in his own right." from http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199255863

2) "The impetus and most significant building in the trend, of course, is Frank O. Gehry's Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain, built in 1997. Arguably, never before had a bulding possessed such alchemical powers, transforming a provincial mining town in the Basque region of northern Spain into a major player on the world art and culture circuit. Like Frank Lloyd Wright's New York Guggenheim before it, Bilbao was an extraordinary event in the history of architecture." from http://www.usefulandagreeable.com/architourism.shtml

Aïda Garcia Pons
United States
Local time: 00:59
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Catalan,

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4

38 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

symbolic/representative/iconic/vivid

Explanation:
start here and work on.....

hallmark
landmark

In fact they probably only mean it is the best-known....

xxxCMJ_Trans
Local time: 09:59
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 48

Grading comment

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39 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

symbolic , representative

Explanation:
¿?

German Gonzalez
Argentina
Local time: 04:59
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish

39 mins confidence:

representative

Explanation:
Personally, I like the work emblematic, but it doesn't seem to be used at home. Landmark woulld also be an option. But emblematic seems nearer the meaning they want to convey: something that characterises the identity of a place.

Sheilann
Spain
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 52

Notes to answerer

Asker: I like landmark (it appeared when I did the search on Kudoz, but since the structure is in itself a landmark, I´d have difficulty using it as an adjective as well.

Asker: Sorry, it was hallmark I saw - but it made me think of landmark!

4 hrs confidence:

milestone (see below)

Explanation:
I don't know if this fits in your context - or your phrasing, but if it is el más emblemático, maybe you could resort to this

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Note added at 23 hrs (2007-03-14 11:21:54 GMT) Post-grading
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Hi Aceavila - Firstly, I fully agree with your choice. Regarding the use of milestone, it IS used in architechture as an alternative to landmark. A few examples:
A milestone that might have been
Thomas Tefft proposed this Project for Merchants’ Exchange in 1856. Had it been built, said curator Dietrich Neumann, it would today be considered a milestone of American architecture. (Ink and watercolor on paper, 26 x 30 inches. Lent by the Brown University Archive, John Hay Library.)
The city's cultural prestige increased with Gianfrancesco Gonzaga (1407-1444) and with Ludovico III (1444-1478), who called Brunelleschi, Luca Fancelli, Luciano Laurana to Mantua and commissioned Leon Battista Alberti to design the project for two churches, S. Sebastiano and S. Andrea, considered milestones in the history of Renaissance architecture. http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/328/
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Recently reached construction milestones include complex ...
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presenting a windowless wall along its most public facade, the milestone building was the first modernist. structure at Yale, representing a radical break ...
artgallery.yale.edu/pdf/0706_kahn_openingdate.pdf

patricia scott
Spain
Local time: 09:59
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 48

Notes to answerer

Asker: I just wonder whether milestone isn´t more for events, or chronological rather than physical. If you disagree with that proviso, edit the glossary, feel free!

Asker: I´ve put it in the gloss!!

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