English translation of "l’éclatement" - "to break up or split up or partition"

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149 months ago

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

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Arts / Entertainment
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	l’éclatement
Context:	Europe des régions ou Europe des nations? La Belgique…choisira peut-être l’éclatement
Keywords:	Europe des régions ou Europe des nations? La Belgique…choisira peut-être l’éclatement, et semble d’envisager de préférer l’identité régionale à l’identité nationale [Identity issues for contemporary Flemish artists]

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149 months ago

wrote:

might Belgium choose to break away (from)

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149 months ago

wrote:

Sorry-"Belgium might choose..."

149 months ago

wrote:

Belgium is not breaking away from anything. It is not attached to anything.

149 months ago

wrote:

Belgium is not attached to anything, therefore it cannot break away **from** anything. This is referring to its linguistic and ethnic issues which might cause it to break up into separate countries.

149 months ago

wrote:

Break away in the philosophical sense.

149 months ago

Geoff Bing wrote:

disintegration

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149 months ago

wrote:

That implies something very different than what this is. The English-speaking press talks about the split up or break up or splitting up or breaking up of Belgium. Disintegration is too strong in my opinion.

149 months ago

Geoff Bing wrote:

to break up or split up or partition

My comment:

into parts, as per its linguistic regions.

Depends on how you want to say it:

Belgium: Euroland or Switzerland? | Fair Observer°
www.fairobserver.com/article/belgium-euroland-or-switzerland‎
Jan 22, 2013 - Will it become a sustainable political union, a quasi-country that could be called “euroland” - or will it break up? Interestingly, Belgium might ...

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