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TVP Website - Essay - translation questions

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Tuesday, December 20th 2011, 1:35pm

TVP Website - Essay - translation questions

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It is not my purpose to write an article that would be acceptable to people this is not the concern of science.

Just to be sure. I translated this as "I don't intend to write an article which people would deem to be acceptable, as this is contrary to scientific concerns."

yeah? Do I get a cookie?

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Tuesday, December 20th 2011, 9:09pm

yeah, cookies coming ....

I'd interprete it differently, like "the concern of science is not writing articles acceptable to people" (meaning most of the people or ordinary people) as "those articles have to be acceptable to scientists".

(I hope this answer won't be just another gaffe :pinch:

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Wednesday, December 21st 2011, 6:14pm

Well, my interpretation is that science is not concerned with what people find acceptable, but with what the facts say. I don't think he means that something is 'contrary' to something else here. It is just that scientific investigation is not concerned with public approval of the facts that are discovered. Likewise, Jacque's intention is to write an article that would lay out his findings, without concerning himself with what the public might think of those findings.

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Thursday, December 22nd 2011, 2:48am

Lizzie, you couldn't find better words! more cookies to be delivered you way

... "science is science" and we can't have 'opinions' about it, the facts speak for themselves.

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Thursday, December 22nd 2011, 8:37am

Science should investigate what people find acceptable, and then publish an article about that.
The facts in the article might not be acceptable to everyone, but that's not science's concern.