Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Italian term or phrase:
Nella metrica
English translation:
metrics do not record one's perception of a place
Added to glossary by
Lisa Jane
Apr 27, 2021 11:14
3 yrs ago
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Italian term
Nella metrica
Italian to English
Art/Literary
Architecture
Description of terrain on the west coast of Sicily
This is the context. I wonder if metrica refers to poetry, i.e. 'non poetic' ... ?
Ciascuna arcata, una convessità d’acqua. Anche il ‘quarto lato’ del triangolo disponeva di una sua convessità costellata da piccole e grandi isole nel tramonto, sulla Laguna dello Stagnone. La percezione dei luoghi non accade nella metrica. Queste antiche cartografie raccontano l’impressione che la Terra sedimenta nell’Anima.
Ciascuna arcata, una convessità d’acqua. Anche il ‘quarto lato’ del triangolo disponeva di una sua convessità costellata da piccole e grandi isole nel tramonto, sulla Laguna dello Stagnone. La percezione dei luoghi non accade nella metrica. Queste antiche cartografie raccontano l’impressione che la Terra sedimenta nell’Anima.
Proposed translations
(English)
4 | metrics do not record one's perception of a place | Lisa Jane |
4 | does not arise in metrics | Go2translate |
2 | The location defies being viewed as a regular/uniform landscape | Thomas Miles |
Change log
Apr 28, 2021 12:03: Lisa Jane Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
5 hrs
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metrics do not record one's perception of a place
closely linked to the sentence that follows it and that mentions the 'impression on the soul'
or the other way round:
Our perception of a place is not recorded/described by metrics
or the other way round:
Our perception of a place is not recorded/described by metrics
Peer comment(s):
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Thomas Miles
: Surely referring to these specific places?
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it is written as a generic quasi philosophical statement in my opinion-but it could be specific too
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Comment: "Thanks. Charles"
3 hrs
does not arise in metrics
I agree that 'metrica' here refers to cartography, meaning that the contemplation of this landscape evokes feelings that cannot be adequately described by numbers. Cartography describes the landscape but it's the contemplation of the land itself that leaves a trace in the soul.
5 hrs
The location defies being viewed as a regular/uniform landscape
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Note added at 5 hrs (2021-04-27 16:36:17 GMT)
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Maybe incorporating Go2translate's answer:
'The poetry of the location defies ...'
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Note added at 5 hrs (2021-04-27 16:36:17 GMT)
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Maybe incorporating Go2translate's answer:
'The poetry of the location defies ...'
Discussion
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre_(poetry)
And also used by Shakespeare, in the form of iambic pentameter. Anyone who knows their English Literature history would know that.
You know more than we do, of course, but the Italian term might just as well be referring to metric space.
'The most familiar metric space is 3-dimensional Euclidean space. In fact, a "metric" is the generalization of the Euclidean metric arising from the four long-known properties of the Euclidean distance. The Euclidean metric defines the distance between two points as the length of the straight line segment connecting them.'
(from Wikipedia's metric space def.)
Metric mapping might be another lead.
HTH