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Spanish term or phrase:
las barriadas caraqueñas
English translation:
the Caracas shantytowns/slums
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las barriadas caraqueñas
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Not sure whether this refers to the hillside or to shantytowns. The text is about the show Utopolis:
Las categorías creadas por la curaduría le permitieron incorporar registros aparentemente inconexos, que se asociaban en cuanto expresiones de lo urbano; su ciudad podía ser histórica, moderna, íntima, subterránea, ubicarse en los márgenes o expandirse en redes. Utópolis quería atravesar la ciudad desde la superficie hasta sus entrañas, hacer coexistir la imagen cenital de las barriadas caraqueñas con la agresión a una trabajadora sexual en medio de la noche.
Hillside, right?
Thanks
Las categorías creadas por la curaduría le permitieron incorporar registros aparentemente inconexos, que se asociaban en cuanto expresiones de lo urbano; su ciudad podía ser histórica, moderna, íntima, subterránea, ubicarse en los márgenes o expandirse en redes. Utópolis quería atravesar la ciudad desde la superficie hasta sus entrañas, hacer coexistir la imagen cenital de las barriadas caraqueñas con la agresión a una trabajadora sexual en medio de la noche.
Hillside, right?
Thanks
Proposed translations
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| 4 +2 | the Caracas shantytowns/slums |
AllegroTrans
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| 4 | the Caraqueño slums/slum districts |
Barbara Cochran, MFA
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| 3 | neighbourhoods of Caracas |
Lisa Rosengard
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the Caracas shantytowns/slums
"Caraqueño" as an adjective is not English and would not be understood by many En-speakers
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noun, plural bar·ri·a·das [bahr-ee-ah-duhz, bar-; Spanish bahr-ryah-thahs]. a shantytown section on the outskirts of a large city in Latin America.
Barriada Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Barriada definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
https://www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › barriada
Barriada definition: a shantytown section on the outskirts of a large city in Latin America | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples.
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noun, plural bar·ri·a·das [bahr-ee-ah-duhz, bar-; Spanish bahr-ryah-thahs]. a shantytown section on the outskirts of a large city in Latin America.
Barriada Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Barriada definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
https://www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › barriada
Barriada definition: a shantytown section on the outskirts of a large city in Latin America | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples.
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the Caraqueño slums/slum districts
https://www.linguee.com/spanish-english/translation/barriada...
found in the city of Caracas, Venezuela
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/slum area
found in the city of Caracas, Venezuela
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/slum area
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AllegroTrans
: Whilst this is correct, "Caraqueño" is not English and would not be understood by monolingual En-speakers
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Any erudite person, such as a college professor who researches in this area, even if she/he is not well-versed in, or has never even been a student of Spanish, would take it upon her/himself to determine the meaning of what is better left untranslated.
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neighbourhoods of Caracas
The author wished to cross the outskirts of the city to its inner parts of urban strangeness while incorporating the central image of the inner city district with aggression targeted at a prostitute during the night.
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In the case the author is really the central character.
Note that a neighbourhood is an immediate environment, surroundings or a district where people live.
Although neighbourhoods are not necessarily slums, the general term is usually acceptable in English even though it deludes and evades the use of the derogatory description of a slum-like lower life existence in an undesirable part of a town where ones mother is unlikely to be invited etc.
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SP:
Un carácter quería atravesar las afueras de una ciudad hasta las partes céntricas para dentro de una estrañez urbana mientras incorpora la imágen de un distrito central donde en un rincón una prostituta soltera se enfrenta con un problema de agresiones durnate la noche.
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Me parece que se comparan vecindades de una parte buena de una ciudad con otras vecindades que pueden ser algo desagradables. Son entornos inmediatos o distritos donde vive una gente
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Note added at 1 day 2 hrs (2022-07-14 22:11:05 GMT)
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In the case the author is really the central character.
Note that a neighbourhood is an immediate environment, surroundings or a district where people live.
Although neighbourhoods are not necessarily slums, the general term is usually acceptable in English even though it deludes and evades the use of the derogatory description of a slum-like lower life existence in an undesirable part of a town where ones mother is unlikely to be invited etc.
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Note added at 2 days 16 hrs (2022-07-16 11:48:11 GMT)
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SP:
Un carácter quería atravesar las afueras de una ciudad hasta las partes céntricas para dentro de una estrañez urbana mientras incorpora la imágen de un distrito central donde en un rincón una prostituta soltera se enfrenta con un problema de agresiones durnate la noche.
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Note added at 19 days (2022-08-01 20:20:58 GMT) Post-grading
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Me parece que se comparan vecindades de una parte buena de una ciudad con otras vecindades que pueden ser algo desagradables. Son entornos inmediatos o distritos donde vive una gente
Peer comment(s):
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AllegroTrans
: They are not mere "neighbourhoods" and what is the point of your (dodgily translated) "explanation"?
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