Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
Plan Loire Grandeur Nature
English translation:
Plan Loire Grandeur Nature (Loire development and environmental management plan)
Added to glossary by
Miranda Joubioux (X)
Mar 16, 2006 16:50
18 yrs ago
French term
Miranda Joubioux (X)
Plan Loire Grandeur Nature
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Environment & Ecology
The context is a document dealing with flood prevention.
It is the name of a development plan as far as I can tell.
http://www.rivernet.org/loire/plgn_f.htm
Normally I don't translate stuff like this, I put a general explanation in brackets, but in this instance the explanation is likely to be quite long.
My question is how would you deal with this?
It is the name of a development plan as far as I can tell.
http://www.rivernet.org/loire/plgn_f.htm
Normally I don't translate stuff like this, I put a general explanation in brackets, but in this instance the explanation is likely to be quite long.
My question is how would you deal with this?
Proposed translations
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Proposed translations
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Loire development programme/Loire flood defence management plan
I'd be inclined to stick with a long description, mind, but here are some ideas:
Living Loire Management Plan
Development strategy for the Loire and surrounding areas
Loire management plan
Maybe something about flooding -
Loire flood defence management plan
A few suggestions. I think you have to get away from "grandeur" here. This is what it is - a managment plan for the Loire and the surrounding area.
Suspect translation in places, but this is the EN equivalent of the page you quoted.
http://www.rivernet.org/loire/plgn.htm
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Loire Nature Plan
seems to exist on a couple of sites but I suspect they might be poor translations.
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Loire flood defence strategy
Also - Loire Nature Programme - the danger is that in providing a translation like that you might be referring to a different programme and not this one.
Good luck!
Living Loire Management Plan
Development strategy for the Loire and surrounding areas
Loire management plan
Maybe something about flooding -
Loire flood defence management plan
A few suggestions. I think you have to get away from "grandeur" here. This is what it is - a managment plan for the Loire and the surrounding area.
Suspect translation in places, but this is the EN equivalent of the page you quoted.
http://www.rivernet.org/loire/plgn.htm
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Note added at 47 mins (2006-03-16 17:37:24 GMT)
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Loire Nature Plan
seems to exist on a couple of sites but I suspect they might be poor translations.
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Note added at 50 mins (2006-03-16 17:40:48 GMT)
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Loire flood defence strategy
Also - Loire Nature Programme - the danger is that in providing a translation like that you might be referring to a different programme and not this one.
Good luck!
Note from asker:
| Thanks for that link Amy, now why didn't I see that? I agree with getting away from "grandeur"! |
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "I have chosen this answer as the being the closest and most useful to my final translation (Loire development and environmental management plan). However, thank you everyone for your suggestions and reference material. It was all very helpful!"
11 mins
River Loire Plan Life-Size
Or Life-Size Plan of the Loire River
Peer comment(s):
| neutral |
awilliams
: making a life-size plan of the Loire is a bit ambitious, no?
17 mins
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YES, thank you for pointing it out! I had a good laugh at my expense! But you know some us French speakers have delusions of grandeur.
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14 mins
Life-Size Plan of the River Loire
Plan or Project
10 mins
Sorcha Diskin
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, English
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Natural Grandeur of the Loire (Development) Plan
I would probably go for something like that with or without the word "development"....
Hope this helps
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I think grandeur here refers to nature rather than the plan/map... and I think the plan is more projec than map....
Hope this helps
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I think grandeur here refers to nature rather than the plan/map... and I think the plan is more projec than map....
+1
49 mins
Loire River Plan - Nature Preservation
grandeur nature is a very common pun used by environmentalists.
+2
54 mins
(Loire Conservation Plan)
Just a suggestion - don't translate the name but provide the explanation - from what it says on the website, this should work
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Kevin LOVELADY
: but see my entry for an alternate take!!
6 hrs
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| agree |
Julie Barber
19 hrs
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6 hrs
Kevin LOVELADY
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Live Action
I agree with MDI-IDM but I thought the couple of web references below may add a bit of alternate take on it (and humour in the case of the imdb "Also Known As" reference!!)
http://www.fedegn.org/GN/presentation.php
http://www.fedegn.org/English/what.php
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070131/
http://www.fedegn.org/GN/presentation.php
http://www.fedegn.org/English/what.php
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070131/
19 hrs
Karen Stokes
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Related KudoZ points
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8
environmental management plan
"Plan Loire Grandeur Nature (an environmental management plan for the river)" - from the Val de Loire World Heritage site website
Note from asker:
| Interesting reference Karen, thanks :-) |
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