May 21, 2013 13:34
10 yrs ago
French term
Translation, proofreading and editing
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English
Sur notre plateau
French to English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
Feminism
Here's another Haiku.
Can anyone help me work out how to translate "plateau" here please? What could it possibly mean? I just can't make any sense of it.
Sur notre plateau
La parité est
Conviviale et solidaire.
Thank you!
Can anyone help me work out how to translate "plateau" here please? What could it possibly mean? I just can't make any sense of it.
Sur notre plateau
La parité est
Conviviale et solidaire.
Thank you!
Proposed translations
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Proposed translations
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16 mins
polyglot45
Native in French
&
English
Native in: English 
, French
Works in: English to French, French to English, German to French, and 4 more.
Related KudoZ points
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52
Selected
At our place of work
Where we all work
Gender equality
Is a given on all sides
Gender equality
Is a given on all sides
Peer comment(s):
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philgoddard
: This looks convincing given that a lot of these haikus seem to be about work. But do you have any references? I haven't come across this meaning before.
2 hrs
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only the fact of having lived it for real -
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Wolf Draeger
5 hrs
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David Goward
: Good suggestion for the whole thing
20 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
5 mins
set
as in TV program set
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Note added at 6 mins (2013-05-21 13:40:51 GMT)
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That's one interpretation. Context would be nice.
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Note added at 6 mins (2013-05-21 13:40:51 GMT)
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That's one interpretation. Context would be nice.
Note from asker:
| Sorry, jmleger, but this is the only poem by this author, and the ones that come before and after it in my list don't seem to be related to it at all. |
Peer comment(s):
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philgoddard
: Why this rather than any other meaning? And poems don't have context.
6 mins
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I meant peripheral context. You just don't spew words like that at random, and call it poetry.
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16 mins
the people on our stage/ our film crew (depending on the context)
a suggestion
45 mins
Carla Buchman
Native in French
&
English
English, French, Italian, top quality
Native in: English (Variant: UK) , French (Variant: Standard-France)
Works in: French to English, Italian to English, English to French, and 1 more.
On our tray
I choose to imagine a tray, like a breakfast tray, and the word "conviviale" makes me think of sharing something, like food.
55 mins
on our plateau
It could be a plateau in the geographical sense, an elevated flat piece of land
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Note added at 1 hr (2013-05-21 14:42:59 GMT)
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On our plateau
We are all equal
Friendly and united
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Note added at 1 hr (2013-05-21 14:42:59 GMT)
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On our plateau
We are all equal
Friendly and united
2 hrs
On our floor
In an open-plan office one does tend to relate to people working on the same floor who see and hear each other every day, share tea-making facilities, queue for the same lift etc.
Plateau, in construction/architecture is a floor slab.
Plateau, in construction/architecture is a floor slab.
3 days 8 hrs
Verginia Ophof
Belize
Belize
Native in English
Specializes in field
Belize
Near Native Proficiency in Source langua
Native in: English
Works in: Portuguese to English, Dutch to English, French to English
Related KudoZ points
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16
at our level
suggestion
Discussion
So this means the sky's the limit with regards to a translation