Glossary entry

Polish term or phrase:

trawestować

English translation:

to travesty

Added to glossary by Caryl Swift
Sep 26, 2006 15:36
17 yrs ago
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Polish term

trawestować

Polish to English Art/Literary Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
Wystawa trawestuje współczesne medialne otoczenie człowieka

Proposed translations

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to travesty

Oxford PWN

http://tinyurl.com/ehxrl

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Note added at 11 mins (2006-09-26 15:48:14 GMT)
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Or, in your text, you might also like to use:

"to make a travesty of" (cf. the URL above)
Peer comment(s):

agree Agnieszka Zmuda
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agree kereish
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agree Barbara Gadomska
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agree petrolhead
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misrepresent

If a stronger and more common verb would do.

http://www.johndavies.org/sermons/talk-gb-iona-06-1.html
When art misrepresents the common meanings of the ordinary it fails,

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to parody / to ridicule

inna propozycja;
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