Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Swedish term or phrase:
sluten (poesi)
English translation:
introvert
Swedish term
Peru
Accurate, careful translations
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sluten (poesi)
| 3 +2 | introvert, introspective |
George Hopkins
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| 3 +1 | reserved/sealed |
Hugh Curtis
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| 4 | closed |
Tara Chace
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| 4 | taciturn |
Anna Herbst
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| 3 | exclusive (and inaccessible) |
Sven Petersson
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Proposed translations
introvert, introspective
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Note added at 11 hrs (2009-01-28 10:14:56 GMT)
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tight-lipped, also a possibility.
reserved/sealed
| neutral |
Anna Herbst
: Reserved would work well, but not sealed. Perhaps safer to go for only one word at a time?
3 hrs
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| agree |
George Hopkins
: Reserved is a possibility. Two words are not dangerous.
7 hrs
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Thanks George
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Sweden
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exclusive (and inaccessible)
United States
Reliable quality, attention to detail
Native in: English
Works in: Swedish to English, Danish to English, Norwegian to English
closed
Answering to hidden rules of fashioning and sometimes venturing into risky terrain (Mallarmé's lexeme ‘naïve enfant’ placed in ‘perfectly structural’ correspondence with Villon's ‘neiges d'antan’, p. 209), a vision emerges of eminently close
Australia
When quality matters more
Native in: Swedish , English
Works in: English to Swedish, Swedish to English, Swedish, and 1 more.
taciturn
There is a taciturn poetry and a poetry of loquacity, although the work of most poets can be located somewhere in between.
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