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Correttezza e proprietà linguistiche

English translation: Linguistic correctness and appropriateness

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Italian term or phrase:Correttezza e proprietà linguistiche
English translation:Linguistic correctness and appropriateness
Entered by: Roberta Recchia

15:27 Sep 25, 2013
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Education / Pedagogy
Italian term or phrase: Correttezza e proprietà linguistiche
I'm writing a marking scheme for the assessment of a written production and I need the translation of the indicator "Correttezza e proprietà linguistiche".
Roberta Recchia
Italy
Local time: 16:52
Linguistic correctness and appropriateness
Explanation:
why not?
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:52
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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +5Linguistic correctness and appropriateness
Tom in London
4Correctness and command of ..... language
Michael Korovkin


  

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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
Linguistic correctness and appropriateness


Explanation:
why not?

Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:52
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 78

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Cedric Randolph
1 hr
agree  Wendy Streitparth: Or accuracy and.... Just to avoid the two nesses
1 hr
  -> I was tempted to suggest "propriety" but it wasn't quite the "mot juste", I thought. Anyway I think the two "nesses" are OK here.
agree  James (Jim) Davis: "Correctness and appropriateness of the language" would sound much more natural. The language in "one plus one is tow" is accurate but incorrect?
2 hrs
agree  EirTranslations: And I'd go for Jim's suggestion...
5 hrs
  -> I wouldn't. If the writer had intended it, they would have written "correttezza e proprietà del linguaggio" (and whether or not the translator likes the writer's choice of words, that's what has to be translated).
neutral  Michael Korovkin: IMCaHO, "proprietà" here has nothingto do with "correctness": Proprietà linguistica means "command of (the) language"
13 hrs
agree  philgoddard: No it doesn't: http://dictionary.reverso.net/italian-english/proprietà
1 day 5 hrs
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14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Correctness and command of ..... language


Explanation:
I'm pretty convinced that "proprietà", here, = "command", not "appropriatness"

Michael Korovkin
Italy
Local time: 16:52
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 40
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