excentré / névralgique

English translation: away from major cities / focal point

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French term or phrase:excentré / névralgique
English translation:away from major cities / focal point
Entered by: kashew

14:38 Oct 8, 2012
French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Folklore
French term or phrase: excentré / névralgique
La diversité culturelle résultant de l’émergence d’une « contre-culture » d’une alternative à la culture principale est dont le centre névralgique est géographiquement excentré est un phénomène qui a pu être observé dans bien des pays.

Even though I understand the words themselves, I'm having a hard time translating the entire phrase. Could anyone give me some suggestions?

Thanks! :-)
Guillermo Urbina Valdés
United Kingdom
away from major cities / focal point
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kashew
France
Local time: 11:19
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Summary of answers provided
4away from major cities / focal point
kashew
4with a secluded or off-centred hub
Yvonne Gallagher
4geographic centre / out of the limelight, away from the main hubs
Samantha Hind (X)
3eccentric/ hub
Imene Kibboua
3geographically remote/ nerve centre
katsy
3decentralized
Wolf Draeger


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eccentric/ hub


Explanation:
The cultural diversity resulting from the emergence of a "counterculture" as an alternative to the prevailing one -and whose main hub is geographically eccentric- has been observed in many countries.

I hope I could help you.

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Note added at 18 minutes (2012-10-08 14:56:12 GMT)
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I agree with JaneD, '' -et dont le centre névralgique est géographiquement excentré- est un phénomène qui a pu être observé dans bien des pays.'' makes more sense.

Imene Kibboua
Local time: 11:19
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in FrenchFrench
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geographically remote/ nerve centre


Explanation:
yes, I think it should be "... ET dont...."
Cultural diversity born of the emergence of a "counter-culture" , (NB, comma here, I think) an alternative to mainstream culture, whose nerve centre is geographically remote, has been observed in many countries.
That is my suggestion, though there are no doubt improvements on "geographically remote"

katsy
Local time: 11:19
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away from major cities / focal point


Explanation:
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kashew
France
Local time: 11:19
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with a secluded or off-centred hub


Explanation:
another option where sentence been moved around a bit.

Cultural diversity, which offers an alternative to the prevailing one, arose from the emergence of a "counter-culture" with a secluded or off-centred main hub, and has been observed in many countries.

Hard to know whether off-centred or secluded/remote is meant here so including both



Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 10:19
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decentralized


Explanation:
I would translate both névralgique and excentré together by "decentralized", as I think the writer is reaching for the metaphor of the brain and central nervous system to describe how the counter culture and cultural diversity are different from the cultural hegemony imposed by capital cities or acclaimed "cultural centres" (I like kashew's answer in that sense).

The counter culture is thus decentralized, in that it develops spontaneously and in different ways in different areas; there is no control or authority that decides what constitutes "culture".

It's a poorly constructed sentence in the FR; I would opt for a smoother and simpler rendering in EN.

Example sentence(s):
  • Cultural diversity resulting from the emergence of an alternative and decentralized "counter culture" is a phenomenon that has been observed in several countries.
  • The phenomenon of cultural diversity resulting from the emergence of an alternative and decentralized "counter culture" has been observed in several countries.
Wolf Draeger
South Africa
Local time: 12:19
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Native speaker of: English
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geographic centre / out of the limelight, away from the main hubs


Explanation:
Just some more food for thought :) hope it helps!

Example sentence(s):
  • As a result of <i>counter-culture</i> emerging as an alternative to the mainstream, many countries have witnessed the phenomenon of cultural diversity with its geographic centre out of the limelight / away from the main hubs.
  • Many countries have witnessed the rise of <i>counter-culture</i>, flowing against the mainstream; the resulting phenomenon being cultural diversity, where the nerve centre is geographically out of the limelight / is geographically off-centre.
Samantha Hind (X)
United States
Local time: 05:19
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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