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139 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

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139 months ago

María P. Álvarez   wrote:

"... his relationship with her family was severly hampered/hindered. So much so that they didn't speak [to each other] until 1982."

My comment:

While I agree with Clara, "entorpecer" just sounds more awkward/unconfortable to me than "affected", as that has the added connotation of also being "sad/unhappy".

139 months ago

María P. Álvarez   wrote:

and the relations with her(?) family had turned stiff cold

My comment:

I read once that, although a lot of people consider that relation and relationship are equivalents, relationship should be reserved for kinship and relation for the other meanings. In this context which also deals with relatives I prefer to avoid the ambiguity.

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139 months ago

   wrote:

I think it was in Fowler's Modern English Usage Dictionary

139 months ago

Charles Ferguson   wrote:

cooled off big time...

My comment:

I am offering a more informal register than Clara, but please accept her submission as being perfectly correct. And, when all's said and done, probably better than mine.

Comments by other colleagues on this answer:

139 months ago

Clara Fernández   wrote:

Thank you Charles, for the vote of confidence, but I actually like your informal rendition better than mine. I think it goes better with the feel of the piece that Barbara is working on :)

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139 months ago

Clara Fernández   wrote:

His relationship with the family was severely affected.

My comment:

They were estranged from then on