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23:43 Dec 28, 2004 |
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| Selected response from: Martin Perazzo Spain Local time: 08:33 | ||||||
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la plena efectivitat .....s’ha de produir a partir de l’l’assumpció per la the full force set forth in Article 41 shall take effect upon assumption by the.... Explanation: x |
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la plena efectivitat .....s’ha de produir a partir de l’l’assumpció per la Change it around Explanation: The sentence is needlessly repetitive - smells of civil servants trying to justify their wages by filling pages with gobbledygook! I think you have to slice through the bureaucratese: The transfer of the State's functions and services relating to scholarships pursuant to Article 41 will only become effective once such functions and services are taken over by the Generalitat (or Autonomous Government of Catalonia, which is the official translation). -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr 33 mins (2004-12-29 01:17:15 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- scholarships or, as you put it, loans and grants -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr 34 mins (2004-12-29 01:17:54 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- scholarships or, as you put it, loans and grants -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr 35 mins (2004-12-29 01:19:32 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- sorry, after re-reading my \"first draft\", I\'d change \"become effective\" to \"take/come into full force\" and add \"effectively\" before \"taken over\". In other words: The transfer of the State\'s functions and services relating to scholarships pursuant to Article 41 will only take full force once such functions and services are effectively taken over by the Generalitat (or Autonomous Government of Catalonia, which is the official translation). -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 18 hrs 18 mins (2004-12-29 18:02:01 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Ailish, now that you mention it, it may well be that there\'s something missing or implied in the sentence - perhaps mention of some newly created autonomous government agency to handle the loan and grant processes (which would surprise me, because the Institut Català de les Finances already exists and would most likely be in charge of this). Still, reading the sentence over as well as other questions you\'ve put up in ProZ these days on the same subject, it seems to me there\'s a lot of bureucratese flotsam & jetsam you have to cut through. And the sentence, as it stands, makes little sense, so you might be safer going Marian\'s route, i.e. providing a more literal rendering. I\'ve worked with the GenCat and Ajuntament de Barcelona too long to have much patience for this kind of junk, and I usually cut away all the chaff - don\'t forget, these guys are paid to have coffee all day and put off any actual work, and they\'re anything but born writers. Usually after consultation with the authors of such texts, my version more closely reflects what they \"meant to say\"... |
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la plena efectivitat .....s’ha de produir a partir de l’l’assumpció per la the full effectiveness as directed by Section 41shall be triggered upon adoption by... Explanation: The transfer of functions operates as from adoption by the Gen. Govt. of Cat. of the transfer - rather than of the functions. |
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