Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
whose diminution
Spanish translation:
cuya disminución
English term
whose diminution
To put it another way, is independent news reporting a significant public good whose diminution requires urgent attention?
Para decirlo de otro modo: ¿Es la disminución del reportaje independiente de noticias, un bien público de importancia, un asunto que demanda atención urgente?
Es el reportaje independiente de noticias, un bien público, cuya disminución es un asunto que requiere atención urgente.
| 4 +3 | cuya disminución |
MPGS
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| 4 | cuya disminución |
MªAngeles Salazar
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| 4 | cuyo descenso/reducción/regresión/declive/aminoramiento |
Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
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| 4 | (rephrase it) |
Jennifer Levey
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Oct 3, 2010 08:20: MPGS Created KOG entry
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Proposed translations
cuya disminución
:)
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Note added at 13 days (2010-10-03 08:19:58 GMT) Post-grading
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muchas gracias
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teju
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muchas gracias, teju. Muchos saludos :)
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Aitor Aizpuru
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muchas gracias, Aitor. Saludos :)
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Gabriella Bertelmann
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thx, Gabriella. Best :)
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Let the world know what you do
Native in: Catalan 
, Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Italian to Spanish, Spanish to Catalan, and 2 more.
cuya disminución
¿La cobertura de noticias independientes es un bien significativo cuya disminución requiere atención urgente?
Spain
Golf, Literature and Religion Specialist
Native in: Spanish 
Works in: English to Spanish, French to Spanish, Spanish
cuyo descenso/reducción/regresión/declive/aminoramiento
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Note added at 2 hrs (2010-09-19 19:25:04 GMT)
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Me gusta más tu segunda versión, pero omitiría "un asunto".
Por ejemplo: "¿Es la cobertura independiente de noticias, un bien público, cuyo declive requiere atención urgente?"
Chile
Human-scale Globalization
Native in: English (Variant: British)
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English to Spanish, and 2 more.
(rephrase it)
The 'primary' question in the ST is: "... is independent news reporting a significant public good?"
The subsidiary, rhetorical, question is: "OK, so it needs urgent attention, eh?" which, despite the '?' is merely a statement of generally-accepted fact if the answer to the primary question is 'yes'.
Both of Claudia's suggestions incorrectly put the emphasis on the rhetorical question - to the point of stating categorically that independent news reporting is a 'public good'. In effect, the rhetoric of the subsidiary question has encompassed the entire question.
I suggest that the best solution is Spanish would be to make sure the punctuation guides the reader into a correct interpretation; for example by confining the primary question between ¿...? and leaving the secondary question as a statement without '?'; or by rephrasing the sentence as two separate questions, with a link phrase to denote the subsidiarity of the rhetorical question, as here (based loosely on Claudia´s second suggestion)
¿Es el reportaje independiente de noticias un bien público? Y, de ser así, ¿su disminución requiere atención urgente?
Note however that this version in effect posess two primary questions and the rhetoric of the English is lost - but that's maybe a good thing :)
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