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talks at

French translation: parle sans écouter

19:44 Mar 18, 2009
English to French translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Linguistics
English term or phrase: talks at
"The mom talks at these kids, not to them."
Qu'est-ce que ça veut dire exactement ? Merci !
Axelle531
Local time: 03:30
French translation:parle sans écouter
Explanation:
Elle parle pour parler, Elle leur parle sans dialoguer AVEC eux.
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Local time: 18:30
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4parle sans écouter
Premium✍️
4 +1Conversation à sens unique
Estelle Demontrond-Box
4discours unilatéral
bhatim
4parle mais son esprit est ailleur
stephane bonduelle
4 -1faire des sous-entendus
Bernard Moret
3tient des discours
Euqinimod (X)
Summary of reference entries provided
Ref.
Myriam Dupouy

  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
parle sans écouter


Explanation:
Elle parle pour parler, Elle leur parle sans dialoguer AVEC eux.


    Reference: http://www.wordreference.com/enfr/talk
Premium✍️
United States
Local time: 18:30
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 40
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  emiledgar: Oui, parler sans se soucier de ce l' autre a à dire.
1 min
  -> Merci et bonne fin de semaine :)
agree  Hélène ALEXIS
12 mins
  -> Merci Hélène :)
agree  John ANTHONY: I am afraid I HAVE to agree...! That's what my children have ALWAYS done with me until they were old enough to say: "Sorry, Dad, 'should have listened to you"... And the youngest one (12) is just about to match her (much) older brothers!!! :-)
14 hrs
  -> Thank you, John.
agree  jean-jacques alexandre
14 hrs
  -> Merci JJ :)
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Conversation à sens unique


Explanation:
Elle ne parle pas avec eux = à sens unique - ne les écoute pas

Estelle Demontrond-Box
Australia
Local time: 11:30
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 16

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Soizic CiFuentes: oui c'est tout à fait le sens
12 mins
  -> Merci Soizic!
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
faire des sous-entendus


Explanation:

une suggestion
elle ne parle à ses enfants qu'en faisant des sous-entendus

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Note added at 12 minutes (2009-03-18 19:57:05 GMT)
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opposition entre "to talk at" and "to talk to"

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Note added at 27 minutes (2009-03-18 20:11:53 GMT)
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La référence apportée par Myriam est sans équivoque. Mon "interprétation" est erronée

Bernard Moret
France
Local time: 03:30
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Tony M: That's not the meaning of the EN expression / No, never in all my experience as a native speaker; to talk around something, yes...
1 hr
  -> Ok Tony. My answer was a wrong one but can you confirm that "to talk at s.o." also means "faire des allusions ou des sous-entendus" ?
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
tient des discours


Explanation:
Pourrait convenir.

Euqinimod (X)
Local time: 03:30
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 8
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
discours unilatéral


Explanation:
Elle leur parle sans s'attendre à une réaction ou réponse

bhatim
Local time: 21:30
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
parle mais son esprit est ailleur


Explanation:
no comments

stephane bonduelle
France
Local time: 03:30
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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Reference comments


4 mins
Reference: Ref.

Reference information:
http://www.talkiteasy.org/talkandtell.html

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Note added at 5 mins (2009-03-18 19:50:08 GMT)
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English AS Level 2008: Blk 1 - The use of TALK in Informal language
- [ Traduire cette page ]
talk at (somebody): to speak to somebody without listening to what they say in reply: You can’t have a real conversation with him—he just talks at you all ...
l6eas2008.blogspot.com/2008/07/blk-1-use-of-talk-in-informal-language.html - 73k - En cache - Pages similaires

Voilà qui devrait éclairer la nuance et le jeu de mot.

Myriam Dupouy
France
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 4
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