Procesiones vs pasos

Procesiones vs pasos
 

HOw can we say procesiones y pasos en inglés?
En las procesiones se llevan pasos. Son las procesiones de Semana Santa.

Procession. Para "paso" mi diccionario dice "float", pero no estoy convencido. ¿Un paso es esto?

http://www.museodelprado.es/uploads/pics/Sorolla10.jpg

what about religiuous parade. I heard it on TV the other day.

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.

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...

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... :thinking:

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).

Yes. Un paso in a Spanish Easter procession is exactly what your picture reflects.

No conozco una palabra inglesa. "At Easter they parade statues of saints through the city". "There are processions of people carrying statues of saints".

I see people "passing" and a "float"

Which represents "paso"?

People passing, the float or the whole picture?

I have always thought that a paso is just the float... but I don't like Easter parades that much, so I'm no expert. Ever since I was a little girl I've found the capuchinos creepy (they remind me of the KKK) :sad:

I know....

So I'm not alone...:D
When reading the quote you included in your answer I noticed I had made a mistake.:o I've corrected it in the original message:
Ever since I was a little girl I've found...

For me a float is for a carnival like this
http://i.thisis.co.uk/274156/gallery...66/1243253.jpg
as is parade.

A "Paso" is smth far more serious as posted on the first page of this thread, so I wouldn't use the word float.

A float, as far as I know, is like Pjt said, motorised, usually on a lorry. A paso isn't, it's carried. But it's the only translation for the word that I've seen so far.

Paso is the image and not the cart/float.

http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltCons...US=3&LEMA=paso (#22)

I agree with you, Ambarina.I think there isn't a better translation because we are talking about different realities...but sometimes we have to make do with approximations or near synonyms... That's why I hate translating....:banghead: