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Spanish to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Cosmetics, Beauty / Jewelry | |||||||
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4 +1 | misshapen pearl / irregular pearl |
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4 | crooked/imperfect pearl |
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3 | lopsided pearl |
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A photo of a perla chueca |
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lopsided pearl Explanation: There is lots of discussion on the web about the connection between "baroque" and "imperfect pearls," but I don't think "imperfect" is a great translation of "chueca." |
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crooked/imperfect pearl Explanation: I think "lopsided" is a bit colloquial for this context. Here is the correct etymology: 1765, from French baroque (15c.) "irregular," from Portuguese barroco "imperfect pearl," which is of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Spanish berruca "a wart." Reference: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=baroque Reference: http://dictionary.reverso.net/spanish-english/chueco |
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misshapen pearl / irregular pearl Explanation: More choices, which I personally prefer. No single English source should be regarded as absolutely authoritative; we need to consider what berrueco actually means rather than how it has been translated. The DRAE defines barrueco (variant berrueco) as "perla irregular", and I think irregularity is the key concept which was the keynote of the Baroque as an artistic style and indeed ethos. "Imperfect" is used in a number of places, but there are various kinds of imperfection (the word suggests a blemish of some kind, to me at least), whereas berrueco is very much a matter of shape. So I think Collin has a good point with lopsided, though I don't think that's a happy choice of word. Nor is "crooked", to my mind; I don't think a pearl can be exactly crooked. I would suggest "irregular" as the basic word to use. Irregularity is a key concept of the Baroque in artistic terms, after Renaissance regularity. There is plenty of scholarly support for this; here is the Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance: "BAROQUE An art-historical term of uncertain origin (possibly from Portuguese barocco or Spanish barrueco, an irregular pearl)" http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198601753.... But my personal favourite is "misshapen", which is suggested by Baretti in his 1809 dictionary: https://books.google.es/books?id=2-AFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PT96&lpg=PT... The point is that barrueco is very much a matter of shape. And that's actually the basic concept of chueco too. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 8 hrs (2015-06-26 06:40:53 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "Misshapen" seems to me to strike just the right note. "Chueca" itself implies some sort of deformity (mal hecho, defectuoso, torcido; it can me bow-legged). And part of the essence of the Baroque was a fascination with monstrous deformity. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 9 hrs (2015-06-26 06:57:49 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- And I've only just noticed that if you use misshapen instead of irregular you avoid the repetition with "irregularidad" in your text. |
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Reference: A photo of a perla chueca Reference information: http://ar-s.com.mx/tienda/collares/re386/ And the definition of 'chueca' http://buscon.rae.es/drae/srv/search?val=chueca |
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