Oct 4, 2004 08:22
19 yrs ago
Catalan term
Que és com vesteix. (sentence)
Catalan to English
Art/Literary
Linguistics
I find this sentence a little ambiguous given context and would appreciate some other opinions as to what you all think this might mean:
Julie té un punt d’aristòcrata, o potser de persona que s’ha educat en el bon gust. Que és com vesteix. Com parla, sense estridències.
I can't tell if he means here, "She is the way she dresses", which would then sound strange given the next sentence (and this is literary, so it must have the author's style), or "It's in the way she dresses".
Thanks...
Julie té un punt d’aristòcrata, o potser de persona que s’ha educat en el bon gust. Que és com vesteix. Com parla, sense estridències.
I can't tell if he means here, "She is the way she dresses", which would then sound strange given the next sentence (and this is literary, so it must have the author's style), or "It's in the way she dresses".
Thanks...
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Maria Rosich Andreu
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Catalan term (edited):
Que �s com vesteix. (sentence)
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que = bon gust
La traducció te la deixo a tu o a algú altre que vulgui respondre, però aquets 'que' és relatiu i es refereix a "amb bon gust". La Júlia, l'han educada en el bon gust, que és com vesteix [=la Júlia vesteis amb bon gust].
Salutacions,
Maria
Salutacions,
Maria
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Comment: "Thanks everybody, and sorry for the long grading wait! Maria answered my question the most quickly, and in this case a clarification was all I was looking for, so moltes gràcies Maria!"
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Bernadette Mora
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Catalan term (edited):
Que �s com vesteix. (sentence)
It's in the way she dresses, she speaks
Good luck!
Bernadette Mora
Bernadette Mora
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Berni Armstrong
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Spain
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Catalan term (edited):
Que �s com vesteix. (sentence)
which is how she dresses
Literally - but I'd go for something like:
"Julie had something of the aristocrat about her, or perhaps an air of someone accustomed to good taste. You could tell it in the way she dressed, or in the gentle way she spoke."
The somewhat formal language used here is a deliberate echo of the content.
"Julie had something of the aristocrat about her, or perhaps an air of someone accustomed to good taste. You could tell it in the way she dressed, or in the gentle way she spoke."
The somewhat formal language used here is a deliberate echo of the content.
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Veronica Lambert Hall
: oops, I'd just read your "sentence" and discarded it!! I should have read your full reply before posting mine.
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Thanks Veronica - I've shot my bolt early a few times too :-)
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Veronica Lambert Hall
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Catalan term (edited):
Que �s com vesteix. (sentence)
You can see it in the way she dresses...
I'd go for something like "You can see it in the way she dresses, in the way she speaks..."
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