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it does overlap with ethics
Flat Wrap
May 2, 2010 07:16
14 yrs ago
English term

post-servant

English to French Art/Literary History excerpt from a novel by Kate Atkinson
context :
'an estate of modern comfortable housing for the post-war, post-servant world of small families'.
Any help to translate into French 'post servant' ?
Merci !
Proposed translations (French)
3 +1 sans domestiques
3 "post-ancillaire"

Discussion

polyglot45 May 2, 2010:
faut savoir quelle sera la structure de la phrase dans son intégralité - pour les familles d'après-guerre, moins nombreuses et sans domestiques, par exemple

Proposed translations

+1
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sans domestiques

* un monde sans dom.
Peer comment(s):
neutral Tony M : Y-e-s — but doesn't that rather miss out the idea of 'post-'? I.e. that there used to be, but aren't any more? I think it's a shame to lose the author's nice turn of phrase.
3 mins
Yes, I realised that: so maybe "l'après domestiques"?
agree leroym
4 hrs
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3 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "merci "
4 days

"post-ancillaire"

Si vous souhaitez conserver le terme de post ("d'après"), mais il s'agit d'une création!
ancillaire: adJ; qui se rapporte aux servants, domestiques
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