Monday, February 21, 2011

spełniacz

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Looks like a standard Krąpcian term ...
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Thursday, February 10, 2011

bytowość

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" ... cała filozofia grecka nie wiedziała nic o roli aktu istnienie jako decydującego o bytowości, ograniczała się wyłącznie do analiz ...
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czynność - działalność

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action - operation Have you found a consistent distinction between these two? I am appealing to your extensive experience!
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Saturday, January 22, 2011

racja

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e.g. "racja bytu". by analogy with "zasada racji dostatecznej" I suppose it would be "reason", but ... it'...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Pytajnosc

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“Pytajność&rdquo is a word that appears in Lublin Thomism. As far as I know it is not part of ordinary Polish. There is also the adjecti...
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

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Thursday, October 21, 2010

"uniesprzecznienie" II

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Dusza pojawia się jako uniesprzecznienie, czyli, jak to się mowi: „uwolnienie od sprzeczności to, że coś raczej działa niż nie działa” from ...
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Monday, October 11, 2010

"treść|

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:) Today I have "utreściowiony"!
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Wyodrebnienie

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For a while, I have been translating wyodrębnianie as discerning or discernment. Sometimes perhaps "distinction" works out, or ...
Monday, August 30, 2010

ISTOCZENIE ?

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I have a title: "Hierarchia procesu istoczenia" -- which for now I translate as "Hierarchy of the process of essentialization...
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

NAOCZNOŚĆ

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The sentence … prowadził badania nad formami naoczności czasu i przestrzeni …. The term “naoczność” could perhaps be rendered by “evidence”,...
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Monday, June 7, 2010

"trafność"

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Stawianie problemów. Ten etap charakteryzują [...] ; trafność , wyrażająca się w tym, że problem nie implikuje fałszywych założeń, ani nie p...
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Thursday, June 3, 2010

Given

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The adjective “dany” is, of course, “given”. In English we might say “on any given day”. Polish writers, maybe especially in philosophy, use...
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Reduce, or Can be reduced

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The verb “sprowadzić” is primarily rendered as “to reduce”. When it comes to ideas, English authors as I read them use the terms “reducible”...

MAYBE TROUBLE WITH ADJECTIVES

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Some adjectives can be confusing if translated literally. For example “logiczne” and “prawne” — logical, legal. For example, “logiczne dzieł...
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Monday, May 31, 2010

hyphenated adjectives

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I often see hyphenated adjectives in Polish, and the result is ambiguous. For example, “był dziekan Wydziału Filozoficzno-Historycznego”. Of...
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K.

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What exactly is the abbreviation "k." in an expression such as “ur. 14 IX 1859 w Skrzypczyńcach k. Humania (Ukraina)”. In this cas...
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Ukrainian Place Names

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I always get worried about Ukrainian place names. Some of those places were in Polish territory and had Polish spellings. I never know wheth...
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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Z zwiazku z tym

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How many different ways can we render “Z związku z tym …”?
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-ing and -ac

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Whenever a sentence contains a phrase like “uzyskując stopień doktora filozofii”, the simplest recourse is to use a gerund or participle in ...
Monday, May 24, 2010

UJECIE

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“Ujęcie” seems pretty straight-forward, colloquially “grasp”, in philosophy “apprehend”. It seems to me that this noun would often mean “an ...

BYTES and KILOBYTES

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The book of Proverbs says it is no shame to count very closely when it comes to work and business. Now, when we are paid for each character ...

Aegidius vs. Giles

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More a comment that a question. Aegidius of Rome, or Egydiusz in Polish, is Giles of Rome in English. Why would English have a totally diffe...
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"budowanie metafizyki"

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Construction? Tak po prostu?
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"uogólnienie rozumiejące"

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Uświadomienie to następuje nie w drodze rozumowania, separacja jako całość, podobnie jak abstrakcja, nie jest rozumowaniem, lecz jest aktem...
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"ostateczny"

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... żadna nie daje ... całościowego, koniecznego i ostatecznego wyjaśnienia rzeczywistości... Metafizyka ... nie ma już za zadania ... osta...
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Friday, May 21, 2010

UNDER THE INFLUENCE

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“Under the influence …” in colloquial English has the connotation of being drunk or intoxicated, and the phrase appears often in law. "...
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NOUNS INTO VERBS

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Polish writing often has phrases with subjects, objects, and actions all expressed by nouns. Here is such a phrase “na pytanie o możliwość l...

SOURCE-BASED

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The word “żródło” is straightforward: “source”. The adjective and adverb are troublesome: “żródłowy” and “żródłowo”. Sometimes I translate t...

OD --- from, or since, or something else

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“OD” with a date is simply translated as “Since”. “Od 1989 jest nagroda jego imienia.” — “Since 1989 there has been an award in his name”. H...
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AMONG OTHER THINGS

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The phrase “między innymi” (m.in.), or in English “among other things”, appears often enough in Polish and in English, more often in Polish....
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

EXPERIENCE

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In Polish philosophy, there are several words that can be translated as experience. The two most important are “doświadczenie” and “przeżyci...

PERSONAL PRONOUNS AND INFORMATION LOSS

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It is necessary to be careful when translating personal pronouns. English conveys much less information in a personal pronoun. For example, ...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

POLISH SPECIAL CHARACTERS IN HTML

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For writing Polish letters in search engines (Google) and in html files, one uses the standard UTF codes. For those of us who usually don...
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Restrictiveness

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In English and some other language, it is very clear whether a phrase or a word is restrictive or not. For example "The dog that has ra...

Nonnullae annotationes de verbis inusitatis

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(H. wrote) Uniesprzecznienie ---- If a phrase is allowed, I use various expressions. The real and true meaning, not a literal translation, i...
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Saint Jerome, who did labour in the field of translation, pray for us!

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

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This blog is for the exchange of ideas among translators who translate Polish philosophical and theological texts, esp. Christian and Thomis...