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se chevaucher quart-quart
Autorité Organique
May 21, 2012 10:17
12 yrs ago
French term

objets glanés

French to English Art/Literary Materials (Plastics, Ceramics, etc.) glass sculpture
A glass sculptor explains:
I'm also using,
"Cailloux
bois
briques
coquillages
ferrailles… objets glanés…" - I know "objets trouvés" is used in chic arty English. Is is right here?
Proposed translations (English)
4 +3 found objects/objects I've scavenged
3 +3 objects gleaned

Discussion

chris collister May 21, 2012:
I wouldn't necessarily say that "objets trouvés" is any more or less arty or pretentious than "chic", "haute couture", "film noir" or even "entrepreneur". Sometimes folk with a horror of being labelled pretentious (moi??) just say "found objects", which is as banal in English as "objets trouvés" is in French! IMO, "objets trouvés" works fine in English.
polyglot45 May 21, 2012:
you may like to consider bric-à-brac; things picked up here and there....

Proposed translations

+3
59 mins
Selected

found objects/objects I've scavenged

I have seen objets trouvés used in English but I would probably translate into standard language unless you think he's trying to sound particularly chic and arty. I don't see what's wrong with found objects or bits and pieces I've scavenged/ collected
Peer comment(s):
agree Yolanda Broad : "scavenged"
5 hrs
agree Lara Barnett : Scavenged - Feels like it fits the context better.
8 hrs
agree Tony M : I think this is what one would naturally use in EN; I guess the FR didn't use 'objets trouvés' since that normally means "Lost property"!
4 days
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "I played safe with "found objects" - thanks"
+3
56 mins

objects gleaned

Peer comment(s):
agree ANNIE BATTEN : If you use gleaned I think you need to specify gleaned from xxx - it's not usual to see gleaned used alone I don't think.
6 mins
I agree. Perhaps an addition of "here and there" as suggested by Nikki will fit
agree Nikki Scott-Despaigne : "Glean" is of course right for "glaner" and in context might beenfit from the addition of "here and there".//How funny Anne; we have the same feeling that it needs to be added to.
7 mins
Thanks and agreed
agree Salih YILDIRIM
4 hrs
Thanks
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