szermierka słowna

English translation: verbal fencing

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Polish term or phrase:szermierka słowna
English translation:verbal fencing
Entered by: Andrzej Ziomek

11:53 Oct 29, 2019
Polish to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
Polish term or phrase: szermierka słowna
popisy szermierki słownej intelektualistów, artystów, którzy spotykali się w kawiarniach, prywatnych mieszkaniach, żeby podyskutować, porozmawiać o literaturze, sztuce
izabela28
Local time: 01:23
verbal fencing
Explanation:
Jest kilka możliwości - proponuję dosłowny odpowiednik.
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Andrzej Ziomek
Poland
Local time: 01:23
Grading comment
dziękuję
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Summary of answers provided
3 +2verbal fencing
Andrzej Ziomek
3 +1verbal jostling
Darius Saczuk
3 +1verbal sparring
geopiet
4Verbal duel
Rafal Piotrowski


  

Answers


5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
verbal jostling


Explanation:
The Meat on the Bone: A Little Book About Finding Our Way
Janice Kelley · 2014 · Fiction
We carried on an easy banter from the beginning—a verbal jostling comprised of dry humor, teasing, and rich punch lines, sometimes ...

Darius Saczuk
United States
Local time: 19:23
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 502

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  mike23
4 hrs
  -> Thanks, Mike.
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
verbal sparring


Explanation:
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Such verbal sparring and intellectual debate could have functioned not only - https://isn.page.link/vZoN

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It's energetic and engaging, a wonderful mix of intellectual argument and erudition and dry humour. The verbal sparring between More and his opponents was just a joy to read. - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1680389

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.. played a musical instrument (especially in the case of women), and engaged in impromptu poetry recitations, debates, and other kinds of verbal sparring - https://isn.page.link/7EmG

geopiet
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 89

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  mike23
3 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
verbal fencing


Explanation:
Jest kilka możliwości - proponuję dosłowny odpowiednik.

Andrzej Ziomek
Poland
Local time: 01:23
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
dziękuję

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.
45 mins

agree  mike23
2 hrs
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Verbal duel


Explanation:
do wyboru, do koloru ;)

Rafal Piotrowski
United Kingdom
Local time: 00:23
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 16
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