Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
mise en point
English translation:
to make the point
Added to glossary by
Wyley Powell
Feb 16, 2013 21:18
11 yrs ago
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French term
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mise en point
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Education / Pedagogy
This is a formal complaint against a teacher, accused of incompetence and professional misconduct. At one point she was accused of shaking a student. She explained that: "ce geste était plutôt une ***mise en point***, un avertissement, à l’exception d’une seule fois où elle aurait fait des remontrances un peu plus sévères envers cet élève."
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Proposed translations
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| 3 +3 | to make the point |
Sheila Wilson
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| 4 | corroboration |
Branka Ramadanovic
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| 3 | a way of making things perfectly clear |
katsy
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| 5 -3 | the bedrock</>the truth |
Salih YILDIRIM
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Proposed translations
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Sheila Wilson
Spain
Spain
Native in English
Works in field
Spain
20 years producing 100% natural English
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: English, French to English
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French term (edited):
une mise en point
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to make the point
I'd change it a little, to make this one a verb: she did it to make the point, as a warning....
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Note added at 43 mins (2013-02-16 22:02:06 GMT)
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I believe that it literally means to focus, but I think the above wording is more natural than "to focus the student's attention", although maybe that would work too.
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Note added at 43 mins (2013-02-16 22:02:06 GMT)
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I believe that it literally means to focus, but I think the above wording is more natural than "to focus the student's attention", although maybe that would work too.
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Ingeborg Gowans (X)
: I tend to agree with you, but wasn't 100% sure. it makes sense from the context
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As Katsy says, it should be "au point": I think this makes sense, even though the French term used here doesn't :)
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philgoddard
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Joshua Lee (X)
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Comment: "Thanks to everyone."
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a way of making things perfectly clear
another suggestion - you could also say to set things straight.
I would agree with Sheila's idea of changing it into a verb... in which case you could say: "She did this to make things perfectly clear, to warn him/her"
But it should surely read "mise AU point", no?
I would agree with Sheila's idea of changing it into a verb... in which case you could say: "She did this to make things perfectly clear, to warn him/her"
But it should surely read "mise AU point", no?
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Salih YILDIRIM
United States
United States
United States
Meticulous, scrupulous, curious work!
Native in: Turkish (Variant: Standard-İstanbul ) 
Works in: Turkish to English, English to Turkish, French to Turkish, and 1 more.
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the bedrock</>the truth
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Kim Metzger
: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bedrock
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SafeTex
: a word search in your reference does not even produce the suggested answers
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Cetacea
: Nothing to do with either geology or philosophy; irrelevant reference.
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Branka Ramadanovic
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Works in field
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Multilingual Translator, 35 yrs exp
Native in: Bosnian , Croatian
Works in: English to Croatian, English to Serbian, English to Bosnian, and 24 more.
corroboration
This is what I think
Discussion
fait plutôt une ***mise en point***, un avertissement,