Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
leitura de afogadilho
English translation:
superficial reading
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Bett
May 2, 2016 19:05
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leitura de afogadilho
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academic abstract
Hi everyone! I'm translating the following academic abstract and I'm struggling with this term 'leitura de afogadilho'. Is this a term used outside this piece? Thanks for your help!
8. O racismo em Monteiro Lobato segundo leituras de afogadilho
Resumo:
O artigo enfoca o recente debate sobre a obra de Monteiro Lobato analisando os argumentos de que se valem três textos de diferentes publicações veiculadas na década de 2010: um em revista acadêmica (Dados) e dois em semanários vendidos em banca de jornal (Carta Capital e Bravo). Os argumentos sustentados desconstroem a produção literária de Monteiro Lobato, retirando-o do panteão dos grandes nomes nacionais e reduzindo-o a eugenista/racista. O artigo ressalta a diferenças qualitativas que existem entre tomar a obra, a contribuição e o pensamento de um autor como objeto sistemático de estudo e o abordar tais questões às pressas por motivações conjunturais, realizando o que é definido como ***leitura de afogadilho***. Metodologicamente a análise se baseia em instrumental de pesquisa de natureza histórico-sociológica.
Palavras-chaves: Racismo; Monteiro Lobato; censura; ideias sociais e políticas.
8. O racismo em Monteiro Lobato segundo leituras de afogadilho
Resumo:
O artigo enfoca o recente debate sobre a obra de Monteiro Lobato analisando os argumentos de que se valem três textos de diferentes publicações veiculadas na década de 2010: um em revista acadêmica (Dados) e dois em semanários vendidos em banca de jornal (Carta Capital e Bravo). Os argumentos sustentados desconstroem a produção literária de Monteiro Lobato, retirando-o do panteão dos grandes nomes nacionais e reduzindo-o a eugenista/racista. O artigo ressalta a diferenças qualitativas que existem entre tomar a obra, a contribuição e o pensamento de um autor como objeto sistemático de estudo e o abordar tais questões às pressas por motivações conjunturais, realizando o que é definido como ***leitura de afogadilho***. Metodologicamente a análise se baseia em instrumental de pesquisa de natureza histórico-sociológica.
Palavras-chaves: Racismo; Monteiro Lobato; censura; ideias sociais e políticas.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 +1 | superficial reading |
Bett
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| 4 +2 | skimming / scanning |
Lara Barnett
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| 4 +1 | brief reading |
reisjames
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| 4 | hurried reading |
Matheus Chaud
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| 3 | haphazard reading |
T o b i a s
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Change log
May 9, 2016 09:55: Bett Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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32 mins
Selected
superficial reading
leitura superficial, não cuidadosa, que leva a conclusões errôneas
suggestion
suggestion
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "thanks!"
+1
13 mins
brief reading
The closest match would be a “brief reading”, similar to what we do with newspapers headlines.
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Note added at 17 minutos (2016-05-02 19:23:45 GMT)
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In fact, the author even mentions that such misconception comes from a careless reading of published essays/articles.
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Note added at 17 minutos (2016-05-02 19:23:45 GMT)
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In fact, the author even mentions that such misconception comes from a careless reading of published essays/articles.
8 mins
Matheus Chaud
Brazil
Brazil
Native in Portuguese
Works in field
Brazil
IT Specialist • M.A. in Linguistics
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: Brazilian) 
Works in: English to Portuguese, Spanish to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, and 1 more.
Related KudoZ points
:
12
hurried reading
a seguir.
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Note added at 9 mins (2016-05-02 19:15:22 GMT)
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http://www.dicionarioinformal.com.br/afogadilho/
Afogadilho é pressa, precipitação, afobação. A expressão "de afogadilho" significa apressadamente.
https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome-psyapi2&ion=1&...
AFOGADILHO, s. (little used) haste, speed, hurry, precipitation
"hurried reading":
https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome-psyapi2&ion=1&...
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Note added at 11 mins (2016-05-02 19:17:21 GMT)
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Ex.:
http://thecatholicspirit.com/news/nation-and-world/church-le...
"...but cautioned against a hurried reading of the document"
The History and Pedagogy of Reading
https://books.google.com/books?id=3q1JAAAAIAAJ
"...come quickly on attempting to read, and are especially aggravated by doing hurried reading"
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Note added at 6 hrs (2016-05-03 01:36:27 GMT)
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Maybe you can say
a slapdash reading
"slapdash" apparently puts together the ideas of hastiness and carelessness (which are conveyed by "afogadilho"):
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/slapdash?s=t
slapdash = hasty and careless; offhand
MacMillan:
slapdash = doing something quickly and not carefully
Ex.:
The Southern Manifesto: Massive Resistance and the Fight ...
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1626741867
In summary, a combination of omission, mistaken authorship, as well as both a conscience distortion and slapdash reading of the historical record...
http://www.dailytargum.com/article/2014/10/professors-explai...
While no academic would confess to shoddy methodology or slapdash reading, many are blasé about their incompetence at writing...
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Note added at 9 mins (2016-05-02 19:15:22 GMT)
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http://www.dicionarioinformal.com.br/afogadilho/
Afogadilho é pressa, precipitação, afobação. A expressão "de afogadilho" significa apressadamente.
https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome-psyapi2&ion=1&...
AFOGADILHO, s. (little used) haste, speed, hurry, precipitation
"hurried reading":
https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome-psyapi2&ion=1&...
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Note added at 11 mins (2016-05-02 19:17:21 GMT)
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Ex.:
http://thecatholicspirit.com/news/nation-and-world/church-le...
"...but cautioned against a hurried reading of the document"
The History and Pedagogy of Reading
https://books.google.com/books?id=3q1JAAAAIAAJ
"...come quickly on attempting to read, and are especially aggravated by doing hurried reading"
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Note added at 6 hrs (2016-05-03 01:36:27 GMT)
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Maybe you can say
a slapdash reading
"slapdash" apparently puts together the ideas of hastiness and carelessness (which are conveyed by "afogadilho"):
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/slapdash?s=t
slapdash = hasty and careless; offhand
MacMillan:
slapdash = doing something quickly and not carefully
Ex.:
The Southern Manifesto: Massive Resistance and the Fight ...
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1626741867
In summary, a combination of omission, mistaken authorship, as well as both a conscience distortion and slapdash reading of the historical record...
http://www.dailytargum.com/article/2014/10/professors-explai...
While no academic would confess to shoddy methodology or slapdash reading, many are blasé about their incompetence at writing...
+2
1 hr
Lara Barnett
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
Works in field
United Kingdom
www.lingocraft.co.uk
Native in: English (Variants: UK, South African, British, Scottish, Irish, Singaporean)
Works in: French to English, Italian to English, Romanian to English, and 2 more.
Related KudoZ points
:
26
skimming / scanning
This is another option in the variety here.
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Note added at 20 hrs (2016-05-03 15:54:56 GMT)
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Following comments in the discussion box regarding the "negative connotations" of the term "Afogadilho", I would change my suggestion to:
"A quick skim over", which, in the context, may add some negativity to my term.
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Note added at 20 hrs (2016-05-03 15:54:56 GMT)
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Following comments in the discussion box regarding the "negative connotations" of the term "Afogadilho", I would change my suggestion to:
"A quick skim over", which, in the context, may add some negativity to my term.
Example sentence:
"Skimming is useful when you want to survey a text to get a general idea of what it is about. In skimming you ignore the details and look for the main ideas. "
"Skimming and scanning are two very different strategies for speed reading.
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Richard Purdom
: exactly, that's what we called it when teaching students to find information in a text
43 mins
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| neutral |
Matheus Chaud
: Afogadilho usually has a negative connotation (like in this text, as it is opposed to "a systematic study") and it is related to hastiness, but also to precipitation, carelessness, not thinking enough. It is used to show disapproval.
3 hrs
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| agree |
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
15 hrs
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1 day 6 hrs
haphazard reading
e.g.
Like many others, I must admit to the arbitrary nature of keeping up with web-comics resulting in a haphazard reading of those I am interested in, but over the last 12 months in particular, Boulet's work has shown more innovation, imagination, range and technique than some do in an entire career (and I offer that statement minus hyperbole), that a daily vigilance has been imperative.
http://www.comicsandcola.com/2014/01/in-praise-of-boulet.htm...
Blackmur's new volume of essays, The Lion and the Honeycomb, provides a welcome opportunity to check on an impression derived from a somewhat haphazard reading of the literary magazines.
http://www.bu.edu/partisanreview/books/PR1956V23N2/HTML/file...
But much criticism pretending to depth and finality stems from a haphazard reading of only part of his work, including an excellent and entertaining but sometimes very misleading selection of his letters, which is then interpreted by way of assumptions based on the theatrical public image.
http://tinyurl.com/zclf9a8
Like many others, I must admit to the arbitrary nature of keeping up with web-comics resulting in a haphazard reading of those I am interested in, but over the last 12 months in particular, Boulet's work has shown more innovation, imagination, range and technique than some do in an entire career (and I offer that statement minus hyperbole), that a daily vigilance has been imperative.
http://www.comicsandcola.com/2014/01/in-praise-of-boulet.htm...
Blackmur's new volume of essays, The Lion and the Honeycomb, provides a welcome opportunity to check on an impression derived from a somewhat haphazard reading of the literary magazines.
http://www.bu.edu/partisanreview/books/PR1956V23N2/HTML/file...
But much criticism pretending to depth and finality stems from a haphazard reading of only part of his work, including an excellent and entertaining but sometimes very misleading selection of his letters, which is then interpreted by way of assumptions based on the theatrical public image.
http://tinyurl.com/zclf9a8
Discussion
https://www.google.com/search?num=100&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=64...