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Kacper - 30 Apr 2008 20:54 GMT

Hi

"My outside technical interests are steered on cognition functioning
priciples of human psyche. Especially on psychological aspects of
interpersonal behaviour and clinical psychology."

Could I translate it better?

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PAK

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Lars Eighner - 30 Apr 2008 22:54 GMT

In our last episode,
<0307be3d-0342-4a1f-9fc6-28837acddf86@56g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>, the
lovely and talented Kacper broadcast on alt.usage.english:

> Hi

> "My outside technical interests are steered on cognition functioning
> priciples of human psyche. Especially on psychological aspects of
> interpersonal behaviour and clinical psychology."

> Could I translate it better?

"Steered" almost certain should be "focused," and the part beginning
"Especially ..." is not a sentence. Without being familiar with the
subject matter, I have had to guess at the rest.

"My outside technical interests are focused on the principles of cognitive
functioning in the human psyche, especially on the psychological aspects of
interpersonal behaviour and clinical psychology."

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Matt - 30 Apr 2008 23:05 GMT

> In our last episode,
> <0307be3d-0342-4a1f-9fc6-28837acdd...@56g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>, the
[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
> functioning in the human psyche, especially on the psychological aspects of
> interpersonal behaviour and clinical psychology."

Unless one of the specialities really is the psychological aspects of
clinical psychology (which seems kind of unlikely -- are there any
other aspects?) I think, to avoid any confusion, I would write:

"... especially on clinical psychology and the psychological aspects
of interpersonal behaviour"

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Kacper - 01 May 2008 00:35 GMT

On 1 Maj, 00:05, Matt <matt271829-n...@yahoo.co.uk>
Apr 30, 10:54 pm, Lars Eighner <use...@larseighner.com>

Thank you.
PAK

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Discussion Groups / English Usage / April 2008

Could I translate better?