rappelait tantôt la dérive - What is the English translation? English translators help technical English translators with the translation of rappelait tantôt la dérive

Conges terminology question

150 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Technical / Engineering
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	rappelait tantôt la dérive
Context:	La question migratoire est alors dénoncée clairement comme une menace, ...
Keywords:	La question migratoire est alors dénoncée clairement comme une menace, dont XXX rappelait tantôt la dérive, dérangeant le mythe de l’authenticité de la langue.

The answer of was rated best

was quick to recall or [remind his "audience" ] was veering off course

My comment:

parse is off for translation....
The issue of migration was then clearly labelled [or denounced as, but one must see the text to know] a threat - which XXX was quick to recall was veering off course - disturbing the myth of the authenticity of the language.

Rappeler can be RECALL, as in I recall, or it can mean: I remind [you]. And in French, often it doesn't explicitly have a pronoun along with it. Only you can tell what that pronoun might be.

I have to say given the nature of rappeler, one can't do this well without considerably more context... . Given the paucity of text due to lack of space, it seems to me that XXX saw the whole first clause as being something that was headed for a dangerous place