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A Composer

Spanish translation: compositor

07:55 May 14, 2012
English to Spanish translations [Non-PRO]
Religion
English term or phrase: A Composer
I would like what will be the best way to translate this term from American English into European Spanish. It's a translation about the gypsies.
Dear colleagues, What will be the right translation "Un Compositor o una compositora?
Please let me know.

Here is the full phrase:

A composer, Ye Dao, arrived here and devoted three years to telling us slowly, by means of the music, all the things, beyond description and exclamation, which were hidden in this land…
yugoslavia
United States
Local time: 13:48
Spanish translation:compositor
Explanation:
El texto inglés no permite determinar el género de la persona a la que se refiere el término, pero en estos casos en español debe preferirse siempre el masculino (por que es, por así decir, el género inclusivo y "genérico").
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Jose M Lozano Gotor
Spain
Local time: 19:48
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Jose M Lozano Gotor


  

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a composer
compositor


Explanation:
El texto inglés no permite determinar el género de la persona a la que se refiere el término, pero en estos casos en español debe preferirse siempre el masculino (por que es, por así decir, el género inclusivo y "genérico").

Jose M Lozano Gotor
Spain
Local time: 19:48
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PRO pts in category: 36
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