con letras minúsculas (figurative)
English translation: ... of people whose story is written small, but which upholds that other Story written large ...
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peer agreement (net): +1| personas cuya historia se escribe con letras minúsculas (figurative) personas cuya historia se escribe con letras...= those ordinary people (about whom little is known) Explanation: ie, those who don't get written about |
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17 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1whose stories will never be told /never be told in the history books Explanation: just a more figurative/colloquial way of saying it -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 18 mins (2007-10-11 09:33:58 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- sorry: never be told / never appear |
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8 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +3
peer agreement (net): +3without a capital H Explanation: history without a capital H, that sustain the other History Although there are links for "history with a small h", I think "without a capital" is more common. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 13 mins (2007-10-11 09:28:47 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- ... history without a capital H, which sustain the other, capital-H History ... Great blend of history, humor and of course weirdness. ... It's history, but perhaps without the Capital H, which makes it a little more vibrant, ... boards.historychannel.com/thread.jspa?threadID=600008172&messageID=600142268 ... from thoughts on the biblical prohibition of images to notions of history without a capital H, by way of the Holocaust, the fall of the Berlin Wall, ... findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_n5_v34/ai_18017277 What constitutes the facts of history (with or without its capital h) is the other subject of Schoemperlen's. strangely comforting novel. ... www.literaryatlasofcanada.ca/articles/Schoemperlen_VirginMa... What frontiers now stand between the peoples with and without history? ... we need to return to Claude Levi-Strauss's critique of capital-H History and ... links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2656(199512)34%3A4%3C275%3AISONMP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J was funny to imagine how they could just be there forever without being noticed, .... GL: I guess there has to be room for history with a small “h. ... glq.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/12/3/465.pdf -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs (2007-10-11 11:16:26 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I'm not sure that I made it clear that the MEANING of "history with a small H" or "without a capital H" is exactly what the other responders have indicated, i.e., the stories of the ordinary people, who never get written about in History books, the every-day lives about which nothing is known as to specific individuals, etc. |
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