English translation of "segno mobile" - "freely moving/free-flowing"

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183 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	Italian > English
Subject:	Sciences / Non-fiction books
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	segno mobile
Context:	L'istinto è una conoscenza innata delle cose e del fine. L'intelligenza invece è segno...
Keywords:	...mobile, manipolazione, costruzione di forme e di strumenti....I can decide whether the writer means "free-flowing" or "tranformational." Or something else?

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183 months ago

LucaS wrote:

Dynamic

My comment:

I think the best word is dynamic because here the contrast is between a innate, and thus static, kind of knowledge and a dynamic one. Terms that convey a sense of spatial movement aren't really about what the italian word you're trying to translate conveys. Dynamic, on the other end, has more the sense of the manipulation of something, without involving the spatial movement.

183 months ago

LucaS wrote:

a shifting sign

183 months ago

LucaS wrote:

freely moving/free-flowing

My comment:

I think free-flowing is better than transformational, as Intelligence is a more spiritual subject.
Good luck with your translation!

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