Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
chercher en parlant
English translation:
Talk our way through our ideas
Added to glossary by
tatyana000
Mar 23, 2006 19:14
18 yrs ago
French term
Fast and Accurate
Native in: English
Works in: Russian to English, French to English, Italian to English, and 1 more.
chercher en parlant
French to English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
From a short story:
Rien ne doit nous empecher de parler et chercher en parlant.
Help! Can you come up with some natural sounding alternatives in English?
Rien ne doit nous empecher de parler et chercher en parlant.
Help! Can you come up with some natural sounding alternatives in English?
Proposed translations
(English)
Proposed translations
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5 mins
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Talk our way through our ideas
we can think it through, find the answer through dialogue, talk our way to a solution, use each other as sounding boards
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Comment: "Thanks! Some really good ideas."
2 mins
ruminate while talking
a slightly different alternative
+2
1 min
David Hollywood
Native in English
worked for int. orgs (IMF, OAS, IDB)
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, German to English
think while we're speaking
one option
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Note added at 3 mins (2006-03-23 19:17:56 GMT)
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something like: nothing should stop/ hold us back from speaking and thinking at the same time .....
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Note added at 3 mins (2006-03-23 19:17:56 GMT)
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something like: nothing should stop/ hold us back from speaking and thinking at the same time .....
3 mins
Jolanta Tuzel
United States
United States
Specializes in field
United States
Done right the first time
Native in: Polish 
Works in: English to Polish, French to English, Polish to English, and 1 more.
look for (something) while we talk
maybe, I would need more context to be sure
1 hr
IC --
Specializes in field
to search in/while talking
Rien ne doit nous empecher de parler et chercher en parlant
Nothing should stop us from talking and to search in/while talking.
Nothing should stop us from talking and to search in/while talking.
1 hr
and try to understand
and try to understand (more/more clearly) through speaking
I think that it's the idea of making one's thoughts/ideas audible even to oneself as part of the thinking process
I think that it's the idea of making one's thoughts/ideas audible even to oneself as part of the thinking process
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