Feb 16, 2004 12:30
20 yrs ago
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French term
Entre le passéisme de l'excellence et la modernité d'une certaine électro-pop...
French to English
Art/Literary
Music
music journalism
Entre le passéisme de l’excellence et la modernité d’une certaine électro-pop, la scène actuelle semble soumise à des mouvements violents et contradictoires.
Hankering after bygone excellence ?
Hankering after bygone excellence ?
Proposed translations
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Dr Andrew Read
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caught between a nostalgia for refinement and the avant-garde tendencies of today's techno movement
I think the original French writer was concentrating on getting a neat-sounding intro phrase and wasn't thinking too much thought about the actual content - "excellence" doesn't really make sense here.
In view of this, I think you have the licence to rephrase this a bit - you need to get the contrast is, but also phrase it snappily in English.
Hence my suggestion! Hope it helps anyway.
In view of this, I think you have the licence to rephrase this a bit - you need to get the contrast is, but also phrase it snappily in English.
Hence my suggestion! Hope it helps anyway.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "oh yes, this particular writer likes to listen to himself, even my French colleagues aren't sure what he's on about... many thanks for your help after 1500 words of the same I am toast : ) "
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stuck between classics revivals and electropop R&D
may be a little far fetched but that's the ID, innit?
Peer comment(s):
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Vicky Papaprodromou
24 mins
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| agree |
cjohnstone
: would remove stuck jus start with between or replace by half-way between
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French term (edited):
Entre le pass�isme de l'excellence et la modernit� d'une certaine �lectro-pop...
hovering between outdated excellence and the modernism of some electronic music,
hovering between outdated excellence and the modernism of some electronic music, the current scene seems to have been taken over by violent and contradictory movements
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