English translation of "il taglio dell'argomento" - "but the subject matter was obviously tailor-made for disputing about..."

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91 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	Italian > English
Subject:	General
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	il taglio dell'argomento
Context:	È soltanto nell’epitome dello storico Giustino, vissuto forse nel II secolo d.C., che sopravvive l’opera dello storico Pompeo Trogo, uno scrittore di origine gallica, isolato rappresentante di un filone intellettuale eccentrico, antiromano e antiimperialista. La sua opera, le Historiae Philippicae, richiama il genere ellenistico della storia universale, ma il taglio dell’argomento era concepito in chiara polemica con il romanocentrismo della tradizione storiografica romana: è già la scelta del titolo a mettere in evidenza l’anticonformismo polemico dell’autore.

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91 months ago

Carlos Pablo MIGUES-LABANCA, BSc. wrote:

the style/tone/point of view of the topic

My comment:

The word "taglio" has all but twenty different meanings, each of them counting on many usages.

One of the meanings, when concerning a text, is: style, tone, point of view.

This is it, I guess !!

My references:

http://dizionari.repubblica.it/Italiano/T/taglio.php

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91 months ago

Josephine Cassar wrote:

the flow of the argument

My comment:

you can see many instances where this is used:https://www.google.com.mt/search?q=flow+of+the+argument&rlz=1C1CHMO_en-GBMT563MT563&oq=flow+of+the+argument&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l4.20997j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

91 months ago

Josephine Cassar wrote:

but the subject matter was obviously tailor-made for disputing about...

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