La estética de la época

[irmamar]

Please, how could I translate?:

'good taste' es uno de los conceptos clave de la estética de la época

My attempt:

'good taste' is a key factor in those year's aesthetics

I'm not interested in a literal translation, just to get the same meaning.

Thanks

[Tomisimo]

How about: "Good taste was an important concept in the aesthetics from that time period."

Question-- are you referring to a time period in the past or does "estética de la época" refer to now?

[irmamar]

Originally Posted by Tomisimo

How about: "Good taste was an important concept in the aesthetics from that time period."

Question-- are you referring to a time period in the past or does "estética de la época" refer to now?

I'm referring to the XVIII century (should I say XVIIIth century?)

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by irmamar

I'm referring to the XVIII century (should I say XVIIIth century?)

Ok, then I would go with my original suggestion of "Good taste was [an important concept | a key factor] in the aesthetics from that time period".

In English we don't usually use Roman numerals to refer to the centuries, as is normal in Spanish. We'd say "the 18th century" or "the eighteenth century".

[poli]

Your can say: the asthetics of the day.
According to the asthetics of the day, men wore wigs and women wore
massive hoop shirts.
You the say the XV111 century or 18th century or eighteenth century.

[irmamar]

Thanks a lot

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by poli

You the say the XV111 century or 18th century or eighteenth century.

Yes, this is true, but is somewhat different from Spanish, since in Spanish you would almost always use Roman numerals. When you do use Roman numerals in English, you would not add the ordinal ending.

[irmamar]

I use to write eighteenth century in English, but now, as I was writing fast, I did as I'm used to do in Spanish, so the doubt has come.

Is it formal to say 18th? I Spanish you shouldn't write numbers in formal writings: Instead of writing '10 niños', for instance, you have to write 'diez niños'. It doesn't work with cyphers, for example, 10 € is correct.

[Tomisimo]

Yes, you can use Arabic numerals in formal writing (10, 3, 49); it is not necessary to write them out as words (ten, three, forty-nine). There are no hard-and-fast rules, and style guides are not in agreement either. My personal opinion is that small numbers (less than ten), should be written as words, and larger numbers (greater than ten) should be written as numbers. Consistency throughout the entire formal, written work is probably more important the the convention you decide to use.

[irmamar]

Thanks, Tomisimo. Your help has been very useful