Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
"univers sensibles"
English translation:
realms of the senses
Added to glossary by
Sandra C.
Mar 16, 2005 10:31
19 yrs ago
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French term
France
Copywriting, Business Translation, Voice
Native in: English (Variant: US South)
Works in: French to English, English
"univers sensibles"
French to English
Bus/Financial
Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
Performance Art
This is a playbill with very short descriptions of artistic performances. So I have no extra information.
Very poetic, so I'm not sure I understood all the nuances.
sensible- can be translated many ways, but I have a feeling this is a play on words that may be untranslatable.
Sensible:sensitive, keen, sore, appreciable, noticable,perceptible
(un monde sensible:physical or tangible) but I think it's more than that.
Thanks for any help you can give.
... en détournant les objets du quotidien dans des mondes étranges et fascinants, des ‘univers sensibles’
Very poetic, so I'm not sure I understood all the nuances.
sensible- can be translated many ways, but I have a feeling this is a play on words that may be untranslatable.
Sensible:sensitive, keen, sore, appreciable, noticable,perceptible
(un monde sensible:physical or tangible) but I think it's more than that.
Thanks for any help you can give.
... en détournant les objets du quotidien dans des mondes étranges et fascinants, des ‘univers sensibles’
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 | realms of the senses |
Sandra C.
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| 5 +1 | sensitive sensory worlds OR... |
David Vaughn
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| 5 | Sense Worlds |
Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
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| 3 +1 | sensory universes |
Beth Varley
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| 3 | universes of the senses |
CMJ_Trans (X)
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| 2 | realm of sensibility |
Jonathan MacKerron
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Proposed translations
4 hrs
French term (edited):
univers sensibles
Selected
realms of the senses
pour moi, ça sonne plus juste:)
bonne chance!
bonne chance!
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you all. I chose a variation of this answer, though all of you were right, this one had the note of poetry I was looking for.
Vaugn had a good explanation for this problem, so I will quote what he said for future translators who run into the same problem. Thanks again!
Vaugn said: "I run into these terms constantly. It's not really a play on words, it's just that the French is 100% ambigous about 2 ideas. If you ask the author what they mean, pointing out the 2 concepts, 70% of the time they'll say "both". So I translate both. The phrasing is still a problem - this is one suggestion, but with many others synonyms." "
3 mins
universes of the senses
this seems to be the implication
sensorial worlds
sensorial worlds
1 min
Jonathan MacKerron
Native in English
Retired as of Jan 2019!
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, French to English
Related KudoZ points
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17
realm of sensibility
at first view
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Note added at 2 mins (2005-03-16 10:34:21 GMT)
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the world of senses
sensual world/universe
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Note added at 5 mins (2005-03-16 10:36:55 GMT)
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on second thought \"sensibility\" doesn\'t fit here at all, rather \"senses/sensual\"
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Note added at 14 mins (2005-03-16 10:46:06 GMT)
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\"sensorial sphere\"
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Note added at 2 mins (2005-03-16 10:34:21 GMT)
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the world of senses
sensual world/universe
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Note added at 5 mins (2005-03-16 10:36:55 GMT)
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on second thought \"sensibility\" doesn\'t fit here at all, rather \"senses/sensual\"
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Note added at 14 mins (2005-03-16 10:46:06 GMT)
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\"sensorial sphere\"
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28 mins
French term (edited):
univers sensibles
sensitive sensory worlds OR...
I run into these terms constantly. It's not really a play on words, it's just that the French is 100% ambigous about 2 ideas. If you ask the author what they mean, pointing out the 2 concepts, 70% of the time they'll say "both". So I translate both. The phrasing is still a problem - this is one suggestion, but there are many others with others synonyms, w or w/out "and"
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Note added at 30 mins (2005-03-16 11:01:31 GMT)
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\"other synonyms\", sorry
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Note added at 30 mins (2005-03-16 11:01:31 GMT)
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\"other synonyms\", sorry
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Beth Varley
: despite my choice of "sensory", I tend to agree with you that the French is ambiguous about both ideas
5 mins
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+1
31 mins
Beth Varley
Native in French
&
English
MCIL SFT, English to French, Environment
Native in: French 
, English
Works in: English to French, French to English
French term (edited):
univers sensibles
sensory universes
universes perceived by the senses / sensory universes
Objects of every day life are subverted by the artist so that we perceive them in different and surprising ways, our senses are stimulated in a different way. The objects become sensory universes for us??
Objects of every day life are subverted by the artist so that we perceive them in different and surprising ways, our senses are stimulated in a different way. The objects become sensory universes for us??
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
: yes why not..you use subvert also...I had used that too
8 hrs
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3 hrs
Sense Worlds
in French, funnily enough, univers is often world.
L'univers du livre....the world of books..but since the performance deal with the meanings in the encounters between performance and objects, I propose: Sense Worlds.....that way you get the senses and the worlds of meaning.
:)
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Note added at 9 hrs 10 mins (2005-03-16 19:41:55 GMT)
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double meaning intended.
L'univers du livre....the world of books..but since the performance deal with the meanings in the encounters between performance and objects, I propose: Sense Worlds.....that way you get the senses and the worlds of meaning.
:)
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Note added at 9 hrs 10 mins (2005-03-16 19:41:55 GMT)
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double meaning intended.
Discussion
Originally I wanted to put something like 'universes of the senses', but it doesn't sound natural. Also, I get the feeling it has the "perceptible" connotation as well.