de distinta manifestación

English translation: different cultural mixes

23:58 Oct 17, 2009
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Tourism & Travel
Spanish term or phrase: de distinta manifestación
Estos testimonios revelan a Chiapas como tierra de frontera, límite entre las tradiciones autóctonas del altiplano mexicano y de Centroamérica; frontera también durante la Colonia, al crear organizaciones sociales y mixturas culturales de distinta manifestación.
Patricia Rosas
United States
Local time: 13:55
English translation:different cultural mixes
Explanation:
That's my take...
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eesegura
Local time: 15:55
Grading comment
I went with something quite different: a diversity of social organizations and cultural admixtures. But your wording put me on the right track. Thank you!
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Summary of answers provided
4differently expressed (see below)
margaret caulfield
3 +1different cultural mixes
eesegura
3of different descriptions
Christine Walsh
3that take different forms
MarinaM
3distinctive
ormiston
3that manifest in a variety of ways
Bubo Coroman (X)


  

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27 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
of different descriptions


Explanation:
sorts, types (but I was trying to choose a word akin to the Spanish)

Oxford: c] (sort): of every description, of all descriptions de todo tipo, de toda clase; we don’t have anything of that description no
tenemos nada de ese tipo or nada con esas características

Christine Walsh
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43 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
differently expressed (see below)


Explanation:
differently expressed cultural mixtures

margaret caulfield
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that take different forms


Explanation:
my option

MarinaM
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different cultural mixes


Explanation:
That's my take...

eesegura
Local time: 15:55
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 2
Grading comment
I went with something quite different: a diversity of social organizations and cultural admixtures. But your wording put me on the right track. Thank you!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lisa McCarthy: This sounds right and the most natural to me
4 hrs
  -> Thanks, Lisa!
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distinctive


Explanation:
this simple adjective to me conveys the idea that it has resulted in 'distinguishablydifferent' social organisation and cultural mixes

ormiston
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14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
that manifest in a variety of ways


Explanation:
= cultural diversity

Bubo Coroman (X)
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