May 8, 2018 17:52
6 yrs ago
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Spanish term
Argentina
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Native in: English (Variants: UK, US, Canadian) 
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deferencia practicada
Spanish to English
Social Sciences
Philosophy
This appears to be a term from Adorno, specificically from Minima Moralia (this is a text about an Argentine painter):
La calidez se apodera de todo lo que ella hace, de su palabra amistosa, de su palabra no dicha, de su “deferencia practicada”.
The footnote clarified the source of the phrase between quotation marks.
Thanks
La calidez se apodera de todo lo que ella hace, de su palabra amistosa, de su palabra no dicha, de su “deferencia practicada”.
The footnote clarified the source of the phrase between quotation marks.
Thanks
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +3 | (carefully) practiced deference |
Muriel Vasconcellos
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Proposed translations
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Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
United States
Native in English
United States
Each translation a gem!
Native in: English (Variant: US)
Works in: Spanish to English, Portuguese to English
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(carefully) practiced deference
The literal translation is fine. See example:
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-iowa-review/20170504/282...
May 4, 2017 - But the technician didn't say those words, and **I had no practiced deference** to act out a response. Instead she said, “I don't see a heartbeat.” Perhaps someone can say a phrase so often it is impossible to feign gravitas in their speech, words worn down like tread on a tire, and I'm pavement underneath ...
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Note added at 20 mins (2018-05-08 18:13:19 GMT)
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It's common to say that one 'practices deference' and therefore no big leap to turn the verb into an adjective.
More examples:
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1498293972
Jim Tallmon - 2017 - Fiction
Then, turning back to the Stable master, with a stern, practiced eye, he warned, “so, if it is botched while i am away, to the degree it is botched, to that same degree i shall demand an accounting! impress that upon africanus for me, won't you?” The Stable master, as he retreats, bows, and **replies with practiced deference,** ...
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=162157167X
Bernard Nathanson - 2013 - Social Science
The mother and the daughter usually fell silent during these dis- agreements, partly from ignorance and **partly from a practiced deference**. Furious to prove our points, we would rush to the library to pull the appropriate reference book (encyclopedia, usually) to resolve the argument. Invariably, of course, he was correct and I ...
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1481705407
John R. Hamilton - 2013 - Travel
I am Dispongse Moung—ngam.” The young man clasped his hands together before his face and made a respectful waz'. “I am a close friend of your eldest son, ]it. We are schoolfellows at the university. He told me much about you.” The young man **spoke with the practiced deference** appropriate for a woman of her age and ...
The Emerald Isle - Google Books Result
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0307553450
Angela Elwell Hunt - 2010 - Fiction
Mrs. O'Neil **treated me with the practiced deference** I suppose she extended to all her B'B guests, but she did invite me to eat my meals in the kitchen with Maddie and Taylor. A few B'B guests came and went, leaving a pile of laundry and dirty dishes in their wake. I moved my laptop, library books, and note cards into the little ...
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-iowa-review/20170504/282...
May 4, 2017 - But the technician didn't say those words, and **I had no practiced deference** to act out a response. Instead she said, “I don't see a heartbeat.” Perhaps someone can say a phrase so often it is impossible to feign gravitas in their speech, words worn down like tread on a tire, and I'm pavement underneath ...
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Note added at 20 mins (2018-05-08 18:13:19 GMT)
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It's common to say that one 'practices deference' and therefore no big leap to turn the verb into an adjective.
More examples:
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1498293972
Jim Tallmon - 2017 - Fiction
Then, turning back to the Stable master, with a stern, practiced eye, he warned, “so, if it is botched while i am away, to the degree it is botched, to that same degree i shall demand an accounting! impress that upon africanus for me, won't you?” The Stable master, as he retreats, bows, and **replies with practiced deference,** ...
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=162157167X
Bernard Nathanson - 2013 - Social Science
The mother and the daughter usually fell silent during these dis- agreements, partly from ignorance and **partly from a practiced deference**. Furious to prove our points, we would rush to the library to pull the appropriate reference book (encyclopedia, usually) to resolve the argument. Invariably, of course, he was correct and I ...
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1481705407
John R. Hamilton - 2013 - Travel
I am Dispongse Moung—ngam.” The young man clasped his hands together before his face and made a respectful waz'. “I am a close friend of your eldest son, ]it. We are schoolfellows at the university. He told me much about you.” The young man **spoke with the practiced deference** appropriate for a woman of her age and ...
The Emerald Isle - Google Books Result
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0307553450
Angela Elwell Hunt - 2010 - Fiction
Mrs. O'Neil **treated me with the practiced deference** I suppose she extended to all her B'B guests, but she did invite me to eat my meals in the kitchen with Maddie and Taylor. A few B'B guests came and went, leaving a pile of laundry and dirty dishes in their wake. I moved my laptop, library books, and note cards into the little ...
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