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12:09 Dec 10, 2009 |
German to English translations [PRO] Social Sciences - Military / Defense / feminism, but general languge use | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Elsje Apostel Belgium Local time: 01:36 | ||||||
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4 | manner |
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3 +1 | Nature |
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3 | set-up |
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3 | social skills |
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manner Explanation: Women, in a structured manner, prevent conflicts to escalate to violence. |
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set-up Explanation: It is part of the set-up that women prevent conflicts from escalating This could be a nicely enigmatic and gender-neutral way of saying what we suspect but don't want to spell out. |
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social skills Explanation: "Women use social skills to prevent ..." This avoids the issue of whether women are by nature less aggressive, while retaining the concept of "Struktur" which can convey the idea of conscious effort when it comes to human behavior. |
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Nature Explanation: By their very nature, women tend to prevent/avoid/avert an escalation of conflicts to violent levels. I know one or two women though, who, by their very nature as hags, have shown extremely violent and even criminal behaviour in dealing with conflicts. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 day3 hrs (2009-12-11 15:48:12 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- @ Phil: or using your "feminist" vocabulary avoiding the word nature: "Women inherently tend to" - and continue as above. |
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