La estética de la época

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by irmamar

I used to write eighteenth century in English...

Originally Posted by irmamar

Thanks, Tomisimo. Your help has been very useful

You're welcome.

[brute]

Originally Posted by 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

concepto clave also works well as key concept in English.

(A)esthetics is used in the plural as a noun. The adjective is aesthetic(al)

[irmamar]

Originally Posted by brute

concepto clave also works well as key concept in English.

(A)esthetics is used in the plural as a noun. The adjective is aesthetic(al)

Yes, this is a noun. I'm talking about aesthetics. Thanks.

Are you sure this 'a' (a)esthetics is optative? Is it able to write esthetics? You're British, I'm very interested in your opinion. Thanks.

[brute]

Originally Posted by irmamar

Yes, this is a noun. I'm talking about aesthetics. Thanks.

Are you sure this 'a' (a)esthetics is optative? Is it able to write esthetics? You're British, I'm very interested in your opinion. Thanks.

I believe that either spelling can be used in the USA, but it is always written with A in the UK

[irmamar]

Originally Posted by brute

I believe that either spelling can be used in the USA, but it is always written with A in the UK

Thanks, Brute

[brute]

This is not a criticism, because you have chosen exactly the correct word.
However, I would prefer to use optional rather than optative (which is a very rare specialed "grammar" word. Many people will not understand it..

[irmamar]

Originally Posted by brute

This is not a criticism, because you have chosen exactly the correct word.
However, I would prefer to use optional rather than optative (which is a very rare specialed "grammar" word. Many people will not understand it..

Thanks for your advise: optional . It's the same in Spanish (optativa-opcional). I'd rather use 'opcional' than 'optativa' in Spanish, but the word optative came to my mind.

[brute]

Originally Posted by 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

On reflection, I think that a literal translation works just as well as any other option.
"good taste" is one of the key concepts or the aesthetics of the epoch/ age/era.
This does not add any complications by asking the question "Which epoch?" I think this must mean any era, because Aesthetics is always
concerned with good taste. Why was "good taste" written in English, and not "buen gusto"?

[irmamar]

Originally Posted by brute

On reflection, I think that a literal translation works just as well as any other option.
"good taste" is one of the key concepts or the aesthetics of the epoch/ age/era.
This does not add any complications by asking the question "Which epoch?" I think this must mean any era, because Aesthetics is always
concerned with good taste. Why was "good taste" written in English, and not "buen gusto"?

I have to study a book in English, but the guide is in Spanish. This is one of the points that I have to study in English but the sentence is written in Spanish. I have to summarize both book and guide. As 'good taste' was written in English in the guide, I didn't translate it.

[brute]

Pienso que tu frasa es y una traducción de una frasa inglesa. ¿Hay pequeñas diferencias entre "good taste" y "buen gusto"?