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150 months ago

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

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150 months ago

   wrote:

too reminiscent of

My comment:

it brought to mind that....
too much of the same
smacked of the same, so reminiscent of

150 months ago

Josephine Cassar   wrote:

too reminiscent of

My comment:

it brought to mind that....
too much of the same
smacked of the same, so reminiscent of

150 months ago

Josephine Cassar   wrote:

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

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150 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL   wrote:

Thanks Jane - your analysis is spot-on, and is pretty well what I came up with. This clause does in fact just pop up out of nowhere in the context I gave, which is why I thought I'd throw it open to the rest of the TG world.... > issue of migration was then clearly labelled [or denounced as, but one must see the text to know] a threat Definitely a denunciation, so no problem there. It's the reference to the other commentator that has no context supplied :-( [If it's any help, it's Glissant, but he's not referenced in the bibliog and I'm not about to trawl through the literature as the reference is too non-specific. I'll be asking the author to provide a bit more info here! ]

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