Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
Il n'en veut d'ailleurs plus de ce qu'il lui a affirmé.
English translation:
Judging by what he told him, he no longer wants anything to do wth them anyway.
French term
United Kingdom
Il n'en veut d'ailleurs plus de ce qu'il lui a affirmé.
D'après le Dr X, il n'est aujourd'hui pas nécessaire qu'il soit aidé pour qu'il se tienne à l'écart d'armes ou autres objets dangereux.
Thank you!
Oct 16, 2017 11:45: mchd changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Oct 19, 2017 02:49: Yolanda Broad changed "Term asked" from "Il n\\\'en veut d\\\'ailleurs plus de ce qu\\\'il lui a affirmé." to "Il n\'en veut d\'ailleurs plus de ce qu\'il lui a affirmé. "
Oct 19, 2017 02:49: Yolanda Broad changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/88189">Rebecca Elliott's</a> old entry - "Il n\\\'en veut d\\\'ailleurs plus de ce qu\\\'il lui a affirmé."" to ""Judging by what he told him, he no longer wants anything to do wth them anyway.""
Non-PRO (3): writeaway, Rachel Fell, mchd
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Proposed translations
Psychologist, Court-certified legal
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English
Judging by what he told him, he no longer wants anything to do wth them anyway.
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Note added at 1 hr (2017-10-16 10:34:22 GMT)
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him = Dr X
them = arms, etc.
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Or "Going on what he told him", rather than "judging" which can be a dodgy word sometimes!
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writeaway
: or even according to what he told him. Swinging things around often results in an English translation that is much more idiomatic. Literal rarely works imo
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Or, "according to what he was told by Dr X.,..."
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Rachel Fell
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Philippa Smith
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MatthewLaSon
: Absolutely!
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AllegroTrans
: I cannot see anything that equates to "judging by"
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brnadette
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ph-b (X)
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Daryo
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GILLES MEUNIER
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Australia
French & German to English Translator
Native in: English 
, French
Works in: French to English, German to English
He wants nothing more to do with that, which is what he has stated.
The "de" would be redundant in that case and possibly a mistake in writing the report.
| Thank you Catherine. That's a possibility. There are a few errors throughout the text, and this might well be one of them. |
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Philippa Smith
: This sounds more likely to me, although I think the "en" is the weapons, so "nothing more to do with them" (continuing from previous sentence).
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Tony M
: I think it's dangerous to start assuming an error, especially when this is a perfectly common construction in FR.
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MatthewLaSon
: Yes, we're talking about the "weapons" here, imho. He doesn't want anything to do with "them" anyways ("d'ailleurs" = anyways). "de ce qu"il lui a affirmé" = of what has told to him = the situation withwanting weapons
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Daryo
: "de" is not redundant, and you shifted the meaning, gave it a different twist // there is a missing comma, which doesn't help.
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Okay. I'm starting to think that "judging from what he said" is better. But the French turn of phrase is a bit unusual, not to say colloquial, or is it Swiss? (I'm not that familiar with Swiss French turns of phrase).
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Moreover, he wants no more to do with what he had told him
If we know eaxctly WHAT he had 'affirmé', it might be possible to find a better translation; 'told' is a bit weak for 'affirmé', but we don't know which way to turn it... stated, asserted, admitted, declared, etc...
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Again with such lack of context, as Philippa points out, we can only assume that 'what he had told him about' is referring to his past history of handling dangerous objects.
Perhaps if we can extrapolate into assumptions about that context, we could go as far as "...nothing more to to with all that [stuff] he had been telling him about"
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Note that in this sort of construction, where the 'en' refers forwards to something expressed later in the sentence, the 'de' is usually repeated, even if it is implicit in the preceding 'en':
« Je n'en veux plus de ses caprices »
This contrast with the alternative constructions: « Ces vieilles bagnoles, je n'en veux plus ! »
In the first example, one might consider the 'en' superfluous, but it is commonly used; cf. that familiar warning sign « Un train peut en cacher un autre », where as in our example here, the 'en' is anticipatory.
| Thank you Tony, that's a great help. I think "told" is fine here as I think it refers back to what the patient has been discussing in CBT sessions etc. |
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Victoria Britten
: This is my reading too, though it's a bit of a pronominal nightmare with such sparse context
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Thanks, Victoria!
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AllegroTrans
: or "with what he has been told"
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Thanks, C!
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Philippa Smith
: Tony, I think (context-wise) he wants nothing more to do with dangerous objects, despite the strange construction. / Sorry, I didn't get that!! But I think it's more likely that it's the patient telling the doctor (as in Catherine's answer).
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Thx, Philippa! Yes, I'm assuming "what he (the patient) had told him (the doctor)" does indeed refer to (his [the patient's] use of) dangerous weapons etc. / But that's exactly what I took pains to explain!
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Daryo
: Il n'en veut d'ailleurs plus + VIRGULE + de ce qu'il lui a affirmé. => suddenly makes perfect sense
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It makes perfect sense anyway, without needing to take the liberty of assuming a source text error!
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He wants nothing further to do with them, from what he said himself.
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Tony M
: I can see what you're getting at, but I think the FR would be an odd way of expressing this? Surely « D'après ce qu'il a dit, il n'en veut plus... » ??
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he's out of it anyway [/ he's lost interest in them], from what he said to him
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Tony M
: I think the former expression is far too slangy, and 'lost interest' is overinterpretation: "n'en veut plus" could easily mean "actively eschews them"
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GILLES MEUNIER
: Je trouve votre traduction lourde
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He doesn't want any anymore anyway, based on what he told him.
I chose to use "any" instead of "them" because I find it more closely follows the original nuance- that is, that the patient is no longer interested in ANY weapons or dangerous objects, not only some particular ones.
Discussion
The key word there for me is "d'ailleurs", which means "anyways."
I think if you stick in a comma, then it makes it clearer.
He no longer wants anything to do with them (arms, etc).
Then, "de ce qu'il lui a affirmé" = judging by what he told him (Dr X).