una suerte de pliegue
English translation: some kind of folding point
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peer agreement (net): +1some kind of folding point Explanation: How very philosophical! Are they talking about how artisan crafts, unlike digital ones, have to look to the past, revive or hold onto past techniques etc? I think 'folding point', which evokes 'turning point' works quite well. |
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a sort of joint Explanation: i.e. the point at which past and present meet and move, and I hope a suitably craftsmanlike metaphor |
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watershed Explanation: Often used as a divide between two periods, eg. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 5 mins (2012-08-23 16:35:18 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- In North America, the word watershed often means not the dividing line, but the river catchment areas on either side of the ridge, the whole land area that drains into a particular river. How the sense shifted isn’t clear. It came into use only around the 1870s, and may have been a misunderstanding. The difference in sense explains why Americans don’t use the figurative sense of the word as much as the rest of us do. That refers to an important point of division or transition, as in this sentence from the Daily Telegraph in June 1999: “The Balkans conflict is at a watershed between a diplomatic settlement and the prospect of a ground war”. This figurative usage only makes sense if you use watershed in its original meaning of a dividing line. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2012-08-23 17:33:54 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage - Página 948 - Resultado de Google Books books.google.com.ar/books?isbn=0877791325 Merriam-Webster, Inc - 1994 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 989 páginas Our earliest evidence for the figurative use of watershed is from the 1 920s: . . . follows a narrow path, a kind of "watershed" between biography and bibliography ... What is a watershed moment wiki.answers.com › ... › Name Origins - Traducir esta página The figurative meaning comes from the literal meaning of a point, or division in a ... Where does the expression watershed moment come from? ... Sign in using: .. |
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peer agreement (net): +1(a kind of) bridge between Explanation: Another possibility, with the idea of connecting the past with the future. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 5 hrs (2012-08-23 21:30:10 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Looking again, I'm not sure (without more context) if this means connecting the present with or distinguishing it from other periods: in the case of the latter, "hiatus" might be the answer. |
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a sort of sedimentary fold Explanation: A pliegue or fold, as it's called, is when sediment is "pushed" by pressure and temperatures of the Earth and literally folds up, trapping the mass in a sort of upwards structure. So in this case, it seems very poetic - comparing the present as struggling to freeze itself (timewise) as soft sedimentary rock that is trapped within this fold, by the mass of the past that has surrounded it and by the future who also threatens to overtake it by it's centuries of doing just that...moving along. A "bubble" of the here and the now, so-to-speak. |
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