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Sur notre plateau

English translation: At our place of work

13:34 May 21, 2013
French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Feminism
French term or phrase: Sur notre plateau
Here's another Haiku.

Can anyone help me work out how to translate "plateau" here please? What could it possibly mean? I just can't make any sense of it.

Sur notre plateau
La parité est
Conviviale et solidaire.


Thank you!
Sonya Mountford-Jones
Local time: 23:38
English translation:At our place of work
Explanation:
Where we all work
Gender equality
Is a given on all sides
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polyglot45
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Summary of answers provided
3 +2At our place of work
polyglot45
4set
jmleger
4the people on our stage/ our film crew (depending on the context)
piazza d
4On our tray
Carla Buchman
3on our plateau
Jane F
3On our floor
B D Finch
3at our level
Verginia Ophof


Discussion entries: 7





  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
set


Explanation:
as in TV program set

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Note added at 6 mins (2013-05-21 13:40:51 GMT)
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That's one interpretation. Context would be nice.

jmleger
Local time: 17:38
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4
Notes to answerer
Asker: Sorry, jmleger, but this is the only poem by this author, and the ones that come before and after it in my list don't seem to be related to it at all.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  philgoddard: Why this rather than any other meaning? And poems don't have context.
6 mins
  -> I meant peripheral context. You just don't spew words like that at random, and call it poetry.
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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
the people on our stage/ our film crew (depending on the context)


Explanation:
a suggestion

piazza d
France
Local time: 00:38
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 8
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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
At our place of work


Explanation:
Where we all work
Gender equality
Is a given on all sides

polyglot45
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 52
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  philgoddard: This looks convincing given that a lot of these haikus seem to be about work. But do you have any references? I haven't come across this meaning before.
2 hrs
  -> only the fact of having lived it for real -
agree  Wolf Draeger
5 hrs
agree  David Goward: Good suggestion for the whole thing
20 hrs
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45 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
On our tray


Explanation:
I choose to imagine a tray, like a breakfast tray, and the word "conviviale" makes me think of sharing something, like food.

Carla Buchman
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
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55 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
on our plateau


Explanation:
It could be a plateau in the geographical sense, an elevated flat piece of land

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Note added at 1 hr (2013-05-21 14:42:59 GMT)
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On our plateau
We are all equal
Friendly and united

Jane F
France
Local time: 00:38
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 16
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
On our floor


Explanation:
In an open-plan office one does tend to relate to people working on the same floor who see and hear each other every day, share tea-making facilities, queue for the same lift etc.

Plateau, in construction/architecture is a floor slab.

B D Finch
France
Local time: 00:38
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 43
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3 days 8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
at our level


Explanation:
suggestion

Verginia Ophof
Belize
Local time: 16:38
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 16
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