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Petusek Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

mottos & slogans

Hi! I'm not sure if anyone here speaks Czech or Slovak or any other language with the same feature, but I've been trying to translate a phrase that, in Czech, has the following structure:

Positive:
NOUN.PHRASE.instrumental k(e/u) NOUN.PHRASE.dative

Negative:
NOUN.PHRASE.instrumental proti NOUN.PHRASE.dative

Examples:
Sportem ku zdraví
Smíchem proti stresu

I would translate them as Sport for health and Laughter against stress, but I've no idea if that is correct. I would like to preserve the motto-like character. Do phrases like this exist in English?

Many thanks for any advice or comment!

P.
  

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petusek Do phrases like this exist in English? Yes. What you have for those two is fine.

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  • petusek Do phrases like this exist in English?
  • Yes.
  • What you have for those two is fine.
  • I'd call them slogans.
  • They would stand alone in a non-sentence setting, as on a flag or as the name of an organization.
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petusekDo phrases like this exist in English?
Yes. What you have for those two is fine. I'd call them slogans. They would stand alone in a non-sentence setting, as on a flag or as the name of an organization. I guess their defining characteristic is that they are meant to be chanted by a crowd.
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