Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Italian term or phrase:
a misura d'uomo
English translation:
at the human scale
- The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2010-03-20 15:06:00 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)
Mar 16, 2010 16:38
14 yrs ago
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Italian term
a misura d'uomo
Italian to English
Art/Literary
Philosophy
Come si può dire in inglese che gli oggetti che l'uomo produce, e di cui si circond, sono "a prorpia misura"? A misura d'uomo, appunto.
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Proposed translations
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| 4 +8 | at the human scale |
Tom in London
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| 4 -1 | man-sized |
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Change log
Mar 16, 2010 17:56: Russell Jones changed "Term asked" from "\"a misura d\'uomo\"" to "a misura d\'uomo"
Proposed translations
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
United Kingdom
Architecture, design, technical, etc.
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: Italian to English
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Italian term (edited):
"a misura d'uomo"
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at the human scale
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Comment: "Thanks a lot Tom!"
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5 hrs
man-sized
Solo un'alternativa, poiché il contesto mi sembra sia meno umanistico di 'on a human...'.
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Note added at 18 hrs (2010-03-17 10:56:10 GMT)
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Hi Rachel,
Yes, 'man-sized' calls for the strenght of a man or 'qualities befitting a man'. But here my question: a sentece like 'a man-sized piece of cake', is it referring only to the size of a man?
Moreover I found: 'full-sized architecture', 'life-sized objects'.
Perhaps, in order to avoid any misunderstandig, it would be less confusing 'human-sized'.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/human-sized
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/man-sized
http://thesaurus.infoplease.com/man-sized
Un saluto a tutti
Francesca
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Note added at 4 days (2010-03-20 19:40:46 GMT) Post-grading
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Of course my best compliments to Tom, I like very much his solution.
But, because 'human-sized' is is so categorally dismissed, herewith other examples:
human-sized CHIMPS
human-sized Dinosaur
human-sized Nest
Human-sized Costume (http://aggv.bc.ca/Exhibitions Archive.aspx?year=-1&id=2013
adult-human-sized sheep
mapping indoor and outdoor human sized objects
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapping_indoor_and_outdoo...
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Note added at 18 hrs (2010-03-17 10:56:10 GMT)
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Hi Rachel,
Yes, 'man-sized' calls for the strenght of a man or 'qualities befitting a man'. But here my question: a sentece like 'a man-sized piece of cake', is it referring only to the size of a man?
Moreover I found: 'full-sized architecture', 'life-sized objects'.
Perhaps, in order to avoid any misunderstandig, it would be less confusing 'human-sized'.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/human-sized
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/man-sized
http://thesaurus.infoplease.com/man-sized
Un saluto a tutti
Francesca
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Note added at 4 days (2010-03-20 19:40:46 GMT) Post-grading
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Of course my best compliments to Tom, I like very much his solution.
But, because 'human-sized' is is so categorally dismissed, herewith other examples:
human-sized CHIMPS
human-sized Dinosaur
human-sized Nest
Human-sized Costume (http://aggv.bc.ca/Exhibitions Archive.aspx?year=-1&id=2013
adult-human-sized sheep
mapping indoor and outdoor human sized objects
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapping_indoor_and_outdoo...
Peer comment(s):
| neutral |
Rachel Fell
: but this differentiates from women/girls/boys
14 mins
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| disagree |
WendellR
: Really the wrong idea altogether.
3 days 14 hrs
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