Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Mar 1, 2011 08:43
13 yrs ago
Danish term
Skønånd
Danish to English
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Linguistics
Kontekst:
'Militæret vil sikkert ønske nye våben, videnskabsmanden ny erkendelse og skønånden vil håbe på udødelighed.'
'Militæret vil sikkert ønske nye våben, videnskabsmanden ny erkendelse og skønånden vil håbe på udødelighed.'
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 +1 | aesthete |
Gitte Hovedskov Hansen (X)
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| 3 | (more) artistic souls |
Christine Andersen
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| 3 | bel-esprit |
Susanne Friesen
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Proposed translations
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aesthete
Someone who loves and understands beautiful things, such as art and music. (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English).
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1 hr
Christine Andersen
Denmark
Denmark
Native in English
Denmark
the message, not just the words
Native in: English (Variant: UK) 
Works in: Danish to English, English
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(more) artistic souls
Just to be different...
artistic souls
or perhaps:
those with creative ambitions
the cultural élite
-- to balance and contrast with the military forces and scientist(s).
It depends on your register, and how you translate the rest of the sentence. My assumptions here are not the only possibilities of course.
Aesthete is perfectly correct, and it is hard to find a single word or short expression that covers ´skønånd´ without sounding esoteric or dated. (I might even feel the term was slightly dated in Danish too, and then ´aesthete´ really fits well.)
artistic souls
or perhaps:
those with creative ambitions
the cultural élite
-- to balance and contrast with the military forces and scientist(s).
It depends on your register, and how you translate the rest of the sentence. My assumptions here are not the only possibilities of course.
Aesthete is perfectly correct, and it is hard to find a single word or short expression that covers ´skønånd´ without sounding esoteric or dated. (I might even feel the term was slightly dated in Danish too, and then ´aesthete´ really fits well.)
12 hrs
bel-esprit
Just another suggestion, albeit one going back to the original French expression.
A peek here: http://www.brita.net/yesterdays_snow_is_all_gone.html (in the paragraph Icy reality) - will show its actual use. I cannot help but wonder, if Mr. Bentley might be a relative of our own Frøken Smilla! ;)
~Susanne
A peek here: http://www.brita.net/yesterdays_snow_is_all_gone.html (in the paragraph Icy reality) - will show its actual use. I cannot help but wonder, if Mr. Bentley might be a relative of our own Frøken Smilla! ;)
~Susanne
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