Thread: Translation please

Kelly, lo de Irán fueron los tres primeros ejemplos de Google para reforzar la idea de que Irán está en la mira, enfocado, observado... (al igual que la transparencia a la que hace referencia jcmor31). Además da la idea de que la transparencia está cuestionada... por eso está en la mira, no?

Y lo del balazo es sólo de dónde proviene la palabra... no le quiero dar un balazo a la transparencia

Tal vez si hablamos de "lack of transparency"?

Anyway, aclaro esos puntos y hasta allí llego porque mi lengua nativa es el español y puedo equivocarme...

Saludos,

You can not say "transparency in the crosshairs"

With all due respect, yes, you can say "transparency in the crosshairs"

since

in this case "in the crosshairs" is an euphemism and has nothing to do with firing bullets you can use it any way that you like to indicate that you are focused on something, even an intangible. If government transparency is the subject and that is what you are focusing on you could say "openness is the issue and we have transparency in the crosshairs", which is simply saying that transparency is your concern. You could just as easily say government honesty or government policy, etc., are subjects that "are in the crosshairs" of public opinion.


Regarding the original question:

"Hello how do you translate this statement into English

Transparencia a la Vista"

Suggestion: "transparency (or openness) under scrutiny"

Originally Posted by vicente

You can not say "transparency in the crosshairs"
With all due respect, yes, you can say "transparency in the crosshairs"

since in this case "in the crosshairs" is an euphemism and has nothing to do with firing bullets you can use it any way that you like to indicate that you are focused on something, even an intangible. If government transparency is the subject and that is what you are focusing on you could say "openness is the issue and we have transparency in the crosshairs", which is simply saying that transparency is your concern. You could just as easily say government honesty or government policy, etc., are subjects that "are in the crosshairs" of public opinion.
Regarding the original question:
"Hello how do you translate this statement into English
Transparencia a la Vista"
Suggestion: "transparency (or openness) under scrutiny"

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Vicente,
Transparency under scrutiny is OK, but the words used by the US government for this purpose are "watch and track"
In fact I have looked and found several websites that will back my point
http://www.washingtonwatch.com/
http://www.govtrack.us/
www.ombwatch.org/npadv

This is an excerpt from President Bush's speech at the signing of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006.

and so in a few moments, I'll sign the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006. This bill is going to create a website that will list the federal government's grants and contracts. It's going to be a website that the average citizen can access and use. It will allow Americans to log onto the Internet just to see how your money is being spent. This bill will increase accountability and reduce incentives for wasteful spending. I am proud to sign it into law and I am proud to be with members of both political parties who worked hard to get this bill to my desk.

This has been a good effort by concerned members of the House and the Senate to say to the American people, we want to earn your trust; when we spend your money, we want you to be able to watch us.
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Barrack Obama:

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Barack Obama (D-IL) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) today hailed the Senate's passage of the "Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act," a bill that will create a Google-like search engine and database to track approximately $1 trillion in federal grants, contracts, earmarks and loans.
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My suggestion, as if my suggestion mattered, is Transparency Watch

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Suggestion: "transparency (or openness) under scrutiny"

Exactly what I meant when I posted:

Transparencia en la mira. transparency will be discussed as one current lacking problem or one issue with difficulties.

And mem, our interpretations came from the fact that jcmor31 first asked for the translation of:
1. transparencia a la vista
and then mentioned when trying to explain his request:
2. transparencia en la mira
and I was trying to explain that both expressions do not have the same meaning in Spanish since as you can see there is a contradiction in this explanation

Transparencia en la mira, es decir se trata de que podemos ver los resultados.

So, jcmor31 is it 1 or 2???
If it is number 2, then the translation offered by Vicente applies. If not, then we will wait for another choice, or perhaps one offered before applies. And I would say the one offered by Kelly would do.

Transparency Watch

RLX: Thanks for your input. Certainly the phrase could be better structured but it was only an example of how "in the crosshairs" could be used, not an example of it's best use.

Originally Posted by SandraT

Exactly what I meant when I posted:

And mem, our interpretations came from the fact that jcmor31 first asked for the translation of:
1. transparencia a la vista
and then mentioned when trying to explain his request:
2. transparencia en la mira
and I was trying to explain that both expressions do not have the same meaning in Spanish since as you can see there is a contradiction in this explanation

So, jcmor31 is it 1 or 2???
If it is number 2, then the translation offered by Vicente applies. If not, then we will wait for another choice, or perhaps one offered before applies. And I would say the one offered by Kelly would do.
Transparency Watch

I agree with Kelly. Transparency Watch sounds better in this case. Although "Transparency (or Openness) Under Scrutiny" and "Transparency Watch" (as in watch dogs), are basically the same.