Sep 9, 2021 05:38
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German term
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Einebnung der Welt
German to English
Social Sciences
Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
Die Kritik von Lesern warum der Autor den kulturellen Teil seiner Argumentation von Globalisierung verstehen nicht weiterverfolgt und untersucht welche Auswirkungen nun zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts auf die Kulturen der Welt hatte, wurde nun aufgegriffen, weil die Einebnung der Welt unterschiedliche kulturelle Effekte aufweist.
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Proposed translations
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| 4 +6 | the "flattening" of the world |
Lancashireman
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| 4 +2 | levelling the playing field |
Cillie Swart
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Proposed translations
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5 hrs
German term (edited):
die Einebnung der Welt
Selected
the "flattening" of the world
Your third question today "flache Welt" has to be translated as Friedmann intended in his book The World is Flat. For the sake of consistency in the text you are translating, Einebnung = flattening.
Because the concept runs counter to our knowledge of the world as a globe, flattening has to be placed in "scary quotes".
As Tony K observes in the Discussion Box, "levelling of the playing field" makes even less sense to the reader here. Also, the other proposal omits the key element of Welt.
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Note added at 5 hrs (2021-09-09 11:01:52 GMT)
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In the current bestseller The World Is Flat, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman proposes the notion that the world is flattening...
https://www.nctm.org/News-and-Calendar/Messages-from-the-Pre...
Twentieth-century social thinking of almost every hue is shaped by anxiety about the flattening out of the world, the increasing atomization, specialization, bureaucratization, and general shrinking of the spirit or soul or life-world that is the accompanying price of modernity’s material success and domination over nature.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt2tv4zc
Levelling the playing field = organising society and commerce to operate more fairly ... which may not be the meaning here.
Because the concept runs counter to our knowledge of the world as a globe, flattening has to be placed in "scary quotes".
As Tony K observes in the Discussion Box, "levelling of the playing field" makes even less sense to the reader here. Also, the other proposal omits the key element of Welt.
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Note added at 5 hrs (2021-09-09 11:01:52 GMT)
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In the current bestseller The World Is Flat, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman proposes the notion that the world is flattening...
https://www.nctm.org/News-and-Calendar/Messages-from-the-Pre...
Twentieth-century social thinking of almost every hue is shaped by anxiety about the flattening out of the world, the increasing atomization, specialization, bureaucratization, and general shrinking of the spirit or soul or life-world that is the accompanying price of modernity’s material success and domination over nature.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt2tv4zc
Levelling the playing field = organising society and commerce to operate more fairly ... which may not be the meaning here.
Peer comment(s):
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philgoddard
: Good point.
31 mins
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| agree |
Cillie Swart
: nice solution
40 mins
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| agree |
Gordon Matthews
: I'm persuaded by your argument, even though I studied in Yorkshire.
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| agree |
Michele Fauble
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| agree |
uyuni
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| agree |
Ramey Rieger (X)
: homoginz(s)ing would be my choice, just to give flat another flavour.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
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1 hr
Cillie Swart
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levelling the playing field
Source includes Welt but context makes it clear that this is in terms of globalisation. Well known expression that can be used here.
Peer comment(s):
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Gordon Matthews
: Better still: "levelling of the global playing field"
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Beautiful !! Thank You !!
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Andrew Bramhall
: Agree with Phil and Gordon;
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Awesome.
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