May 2, 2023 21:10
1 yr ago
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Spanish term

palos dinosaurios

Spanish to English Art/Literary Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
A text about a contemporary Argentine artist who mostly works in drawing

Cuando tocamos este material recordamos a esas personas tan antiguas, casi monos, que caminaban arrastrando palos inmensos, palos dinosaurios, haciendo marcas chicas cortas y marcas largas, caminos. ¿Para qué arrastraban? ¿Para poder volver por el mismo lado o para probar con otro sendero? ¿Para fundar un terreno, para fundar una idea? pues sí, la idea de dibujo.

My question is if "palos dinisaurios" refers to something specific...

Thanks

Discussion

philgoddard May 2, 2023:
I'm not really clear what this is about, or what "este material" is.
AllegroTrans May 2, 2023:
What is your own opinion? What research have you done?

Proposed translations

+5
10 hrs
Selected

dinosaur clubs

Not in the sense of a fan club or football club, but a "garorote/maza/porra para dinosurios"....
It's poetic...
Example sentence:

...where you were in charge of a caveman, clubbing dinosaurs and all that good stuff...

There's no clubbing dinosaurs or slinging helpless women over your shoulder here...

Peer comment(s):

agree abe(L)solano
7 mins
Cheers :-)
agree philgoddard
5 hrs
Thanks for your vote :-)
agree Michele Fauble
1 day 9 hrs
agree slothm
1 day 20 hrs
agree Alison Trujillo : Just saying "clubs" or "giant clubs" would be fine, too.
12 days
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "thanks"
+3
37 mins

of dinosaur-like dimentions

Possibly

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Note added at 2 hrs (2023-05-03 00:04:11 GMT)
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Also: "gargantuan dimensions"
Peer comment(s):

agree Diego Arana
9 mins
Thank you!
agree patinba : I think that is the idea.
23 mins
Thank you!
agree Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
1 hr
Thank you! :)
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+1
5 hrs

dinosaur sticks

It's poetic and it plays with both the dimensions of the stick and the fact that these sticks were extremely old, old as dinosaurs.
Peer comment(s):

agree abe(L)solano
4 hrs
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