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Old April 16, 2010, 09:19 AM
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HOw can we say procesiones y pasos en inglés?
En las procesiones se llevan pasos. Son las procesiones de Semana Santa.
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Old April 16, 2010, 11:25 AM
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Procession. Para "paso" mi diccionario dice "float", pero no estoy convencido. ¿Un paso es esto?

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Old April 16, 2010, 07:51 PM
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what about religiuous parade. I heard it on TV the other day.
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A procession is a group of people moving along in an orderly, formal way. A religious procession more clearly defines the reason for the procession.

'Religious parade' is used, but I've not personally heard it.
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HOw can we say procesiones y pasos en inglés?
En las procesiones se llevan pasos. Son las procesiones de Semana Santa.
Procesiones = processions

Paso = passage

Although I have never heard of anything like this. Not even anything of that sort been done in Philadelphia, N.Y or Boston...
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Procession. Para "paso" mi diccionario dice "float", pero no estoy convencido. ¿Un paso es esto?
A paso is a float at least in American English: don't you remember the Sandra Bullock film Hope Floats? The title, if you know the plot, can be read in two different ways (it's about a woman in a small provincial town who back in her teen years was prom queen and at one point took part in a parade, hers being the most ornate float).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119313/plotsummary
Unless, of course, in Spanish paso is only used in the context of religious parades...
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A paso is a float at least in American English: don't you remember the Sandra Bullock film Hope Floats?
Never heard of it.

A "float" as a vehicle (usually a flat-bed lorry) decorated for a procession is common in en-gb too, but from context I didn't think this is what Robin meant by "paso". Hence my question (which no-one has answered yet).
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Yes. Un paso in a Spanish Easter procession is exactly what your picture reflects.
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No conozco una palabra inglesa. "At Easter they parade statues of saints through the city". "There are processions of people carrying statues of saints".
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Yes. Un paso in a Spanish Easter procession is exactly what your picture reflects.

I see people "passing" and a "float"

Which represents "paso"?

People passing, the float or the whole picture?
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