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Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

gallo grande

English translation:

goose laying golden eggs of prosperity

Added to glossary by bigedsenior
Jul 10, 2016 17:41
7 yrs ago
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Spanish term

gallo grande

Spanish to English Social Sciences Government / Politics presidential speech of Alvaro Uribe
Miren, aquí todavía no hay unos gallos grandes de prosperidad, ni todavía hay unos pollitos pequeños de prosperidad. Sí hay unos huevitos de prosperidad. Y hay que cuidar la gallina que está sacando esos huevitos. Ahí hay tres huevitos de prosperidad: ese huevito de la seguridad, ese huevito de la confianza de inversión y ese huevito de la política social (…) mientras mis compatriotas deciden cómo van a votar en conciencia, yo voy a cuidar esta gallinita de la confianza
Proposed translations (English)
4 +2 goose laying golden eggs of prosperity
4 +2 big rooster
4 the green shoots of prosperity
3 big dream of prosperity
3 fully-fledged bird
References
Refs.
On translating metaphors
Change log

Jul 13, 2016 14:37: bigedsenior Created KOG entry

Discussion

bigedsenior Jul 11, 2016:
In Asian cultures, the Rooster is a sign of prosperity, so maybe the text is conflating this with Aesop's fable with the 'gallina' (goose) laying the golden eggs.
http://buy-fengshui.com/brass-prosperity-rooster-with-gold-i...
neilmac Jul 11, 2016:
A google search for "golden goose of prosperity" shows some interesting results....

Proposed translations

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goose laying golden eggs of prosperity

Aeops fable - in SP the Goose becomes Gallo
Peer comment(s):
agree neilmac : No great Golden Goose yet, just little eggs... (at least geese lay eggs, unlike roosters)...
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TY, neilmac
agree Marcelo González
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TY, Marcelo
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big dream of prosperity

hope it helps
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the green shoots of prosperity

Green shoots of prosperity for Norwich City - Norwich City - Eastern ...
www.edp24.co.uk/sport/.../green_shoots_of_prosperity_for_no...
Green shoots of prosperity for Norwich City. 08:00 09 February 2015. Paddy Davitt. Lewis Grabban is sent tumbling by Blackpool. Lewis Grabban is sent ...
Fabian Society » Green prosperity
www.fabians.org.uk › Fabian Review › Comment
10 Jul 2013 - That's why the current chancellor can point to meagre GDP growth and talk in terms amounting to 'the green shoots of recovery'. Balls and ...
Surviving the Bond Bear Market: Bondland's Nuclear Winter
https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=111806402X
Marilyn Cohen, ‎Christopher R. Malburg - 2011 - ‎Business & Economics
Remember that the green-shoots phase refers to the prosperity of your bond portfolio and a weaker economy. As the economy declines, bonds become more ...
Green shoots are piercing through the gloom - FT.com
www.ft.com › Comment › Opinion
7 Nov 2010 - All told, the “green shoots” that Ben Bernanke, chairman of the US Federal ... competitors – like its productivity, a sine qua non for prosperity.
Green shoots? Strictly for the colour-blind - Telegraph
www.telegraph.co.uk › Finance › Financial Crisis
17 Jun 2009 - ... talk of "green shoots", even of the recession having come to an end. ..... Britain can look forward to a level of prosperity in future probably on ..
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big rooster

If this were just a phrase on its own, you could maybe find an English equivalent like "green shoots". But it's not: it's a really nice, colourful extended metaphor that goes on for an entire paragraph, and you must translate it literally to do it justice.
Peer comment(s):
agree Charles Davis : It's going to sound very quaint in English, but I agree that there's no alternative, apart from completely rewriting the paragraph with a different metaphor, and I don't think that's feasible or indeed legitimate.
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agree neilmac : Ditto what Charles says. The Foghorn Leghorn of prosperity... ah say boy, ah say... :)
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fully-fledged bird

I agree with Phil's idea, to an extent, I just think perhaps you might do a little better than "big rooster". After that you could use "chicks", "eggs" and "hen" in any case.

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Reference comments

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Refs.

http://www.cipamericas.org/wp-content/uploads/wp-post-to-pdf...
Meanwhile, in spite of the fact that diverse areas demanded that President Uribe must not intervene during electoral campaigns, he made the most of his public appearances to influence the public’s vote in favor of Santos. ****The most controversial of speeches took place in Emisora Todelar de Nariño, where he asked his audience not to leave the “chicken” without their three nest eggs – security, investment and social policy. This is the fable created by the President that seems to have captivated a large share of the population.*****
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Reference:

On translating metaphors

In two widely-cited articles, Dagut describes metaphor as being “by definition ‘original’” and “at the frontier of linguistic change” (1976: 22-23); “an individual creative flash of imagination fusing disparate categories of experience in a powerfully meaningful semantic anomaly” that “presents a particularly searching test of the translator’s ability” (1987: 77). In this vein, Hanne states: “Translating metaphor is one of the most fascinating challenges for translators of journalistic and literary texts, since it requires us to draw on a great range of our imaginative, cultural and linguistic resources” (208).
Reference:

http://arrow.monash.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/monash:151154

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