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59 months ago

Rosa (a guest user) asked this question:

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59 months ago

   wrote:

Being always in its traditionnal way

59 months ago

   wrote:

The highly centralized (and NOT decentralized) regime (dating back to the USSR and the soviet suprême period ) has left its imprint in people's minds despite...

My comment:

The begenning of the sentence seems to be wrong: it should be centralisation and not décentralisation

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59 months ago

martynback   wrote:

Excellent! Yes, "has left its imprint in people's minds" or "is still part of the mindset" I'd worked it out that the sentence was wrong but hadn't identified the problem.

59 months ago

Ffion Marianne Moyle   wrote:

has not quit its traditional manners

My comment:

or has not left behind or parted company with its traditional manners

59 months ago

Ffion Marianne Moyle   wrote:

hasn't broke camp with local traditions

59 months ago

CMD   wrote:

[decentralization] still taints / remains fixed in the mores

My comment:

cf Webster's New Encycl. Dict
mores : fixed morally binding customs and habitual behavior
taint : contaminate morally

59 months ago

Charles Ferguson   wrote:

hasn't changed local traditions

My comment:

"or ways of doing things"

59 months ago

martynback   wrote:

hasn't broken away from existing customs

My comment:

Presumably...but it's a very odd phrase in French, and could actually be a misprint.

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59 months ago

martynback   wrote:

SORRY! Ignore the above. It more likely means that the decentralisation of the regime is still part of people's mindsets - though I don't understand why this should be "despite efforts at decentralisation and empowerment of local forces".

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