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le déplacement

English translation: displacement / dislocation

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French term or phrase:le déplacement
English translation:displacement / dislocation
Entered by: DLyons

10:50 May 25, 2012
French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Materials (Plastics, Ceramics, etc.) / glass sculpture
French term or phrase: le déplacement
My sculptor at it again!
"Travailler sur ***le déplacement***, la faille, la fêlure ; plonger dans un chaos de cristal ; casser, chauffer, ressouder très lentement les blocs, pousser, repousser les pierres de verre à l’aide d’un bâton qui s’enflamme et se brise…"
kashew
France
Local time: 19:44
dislocation / displacement
Explanation:
Maybe "dislocation" is suitable given "faille, fêlure"?

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Note added at 1 hr (2012-05-25 12:42:45 GMT)
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I agree about not repeating "dislocate". For "fleuve du temps disloque ..." something like "unsettled, shook free" might be an alternative?

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Note added at 3 hrs (2012-05-25 13:56:50 GMT)
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To me "wash away" would be a smoother and more permanent process. I think a "mini-shock" needs to be conveyed.
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DLyons
Ireland
Local time: 18:44
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Summary of answers provided
3 +2dislocation / displacement
DLyons
4dislodgment
Lara Barnett
3distortion
katsy


Discussion entries: 1





  

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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
dislodgment


Explanation:
Maybe this word suits you?



Lara Barnett
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:44
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
dislocation / displacement


Explanation:
Maybe "dislocation" is suitable given "faille, fêlure"?

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Note added at 1 hr (2012-05-25 12:42:45 GMT)
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I agree about not repeating "dislocate". For "fleuve du temps disloque ..." something like "unsettled, shook free" might be an alternative?

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Note added at 3 hrs (2012-05-25 13:56:50 GMT)
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To me "wash away" would be a smoother and more permanent process. I think a "mini-shock" needs to be conveyed.

DLyons
Ireland
Local time: 18:44
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
Notes to answerer
Asker: Maybe, could then refer back to, "Une fois encore le fleuve du temps disloque mes certitudes et me remet à nu…… " See my questions yesterday, DL. But I'd hesitate using dislocating twice.

Asker: Maybe rivers "wash away" one's certainties?


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jocelyne Cuenin: pourquoi pas displacement puisque c'est un terme de psy (Freud) et a aussi à voir avec le travail du rêve (kashew avait une question sur le "mental plane" avant, je crois. A major 'achievement of the dream-work is displacement.... (Wiki dépl/displacement)
2 hrs
  -> Merci Petitavoine.
agree  katsy: I do think that displacement is good - Petitavoine's remarks are convincing!
2 hrs
  -> Thanks katsy.
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
distortion


Explanation:
if one accepts that dislocation is 'out of bounds'!!
I have been considering déplacement = idea of change from one place to another, and then, because of what follows - the shaping of the glass - the idea of change from one form to another. As faille and fêlure are relatively negative , I chose distortion.

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Note added at 3 hrs (2012-05-25 14:02:28 GMT)
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Yes, I like shift.... shunting is perhaps too Thomas the Tank Engine. But then one is up against "working on shifts" - shift(y) working :-) So that would imply another verb for travailler - which you've probably thought of - dealing with? looking at/for?

katsy
Local time: 19:44
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Notes to answerer
Asker: A bit like Meccano or Lego, eh? Shifting, shunting (?).

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