physical acceptability

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Hello!Could you please help me to find more adequate word instead of acceptabbility? I'm not sure  it exists in this collocation at all. The context is following: Term carrying capacity means more than mere phisical acceptability of capacity of tourist supply in some area.I know it sounds clumsy, I'm struggling with it for days.Thank you

Davkett · Accepted Answer

We need more context, Antonia.

Antonia · Answer

Let me just say that this is the first draft of my translation so there are lot of mistakes here.

Every tourist area, locality or destination, regardless of its territorial borders, enters tourism development with certain risk of possible saturation. The risk will be less, the greater the knowledge of future events, anticipation of future as well as the exact knowledge of possible or permissable development limits is. Although it is difficult to claim that a good translator cannot find an adequate word for any foreign term or expression it seems that exactly this happened in the example of notion and term carrying capacity. This English term is universally accepted in other languages around the world in its original form. The reason for this is primarily the fact that hardly any translation can express totality of content built into this notion. Term carrying capacity means more than mere phisical acceptability of capacity of tourist supply in some area. Neither is it mere physical acceptability of land for building the capacity of tourist supply in relation to its geomorphological features and characteristics. Carrying capacity depends on habits and behaviour of tourists, as well as on type of the tourist activity. There is a difference, in the relationship towards environment between, for example, a single family that came to its regular summer holiday and a number of people on the sea beach or a scuba diving enthusiast.

Thank you davkett for your effort and sorry for such a lenghty context.

Davkett · Answer

This helps a lot, Antonia. There are mistakes in the draft as you suspect, but I will limit my advice, for now , to your original post.

Every tourist area, locality or destination, regardless of its territorial borders, enters tourism development with certain risk of possible saturation. The risk will be less, the greater the knowledge of anticipation of future as well as the exact knowledge of possible or permissable development limits is. Although it is difficult to claim that a good translator cannot find an adequate word for any foreign term or expression it seems that exactly this happened in the example of notion and term 'carrying capacity'. This English term is universally accepted in other languages around the world in its original form. The reason for this is primarily the fact that hardly any translation can express totality of content built into this notion. The term 'carrying capacity' means more than the mere physical capacity of the land to accomodate a number of tourists. Neither is it mere physical acceptability of land for building the capacity of tourist supply in relation to its geomorphological features and characteristics. Carrying capacity depends on habits and behaviour of tourists, as well as on type of the tourist activity. There is a difference, in the relationship towards environment between, for example, a single family that came to its regular summer holiday and a number of people on the sea beach or a scuba diving enthusiast.

Antonia · Answer

Thank you davkett. I think some words are redundant. This is the first draft: one to one translation, now I have to decide what to omitt or add. Do you have any suggestions how I should deal with the following sentence:

The risk will be less, the greater the knowledge of anticipation of future as well as the exact knowledge of possible or permissable development limits is.

1. Is it correct to write: The risk will be less, the greater are the knowledge of the future events, anticipation of future as well as the more exact knowledge of possible or permissable development limits?

2. Aren't these two the same: knowledge of future events and anticipation of future? Even if they are I'm not sure that I can omit that much.

Thank you

Davkett · Answer

You are absolutely right to be concerned over redundancy, Antonia.

'The risk will be less, the greater the knowledge of anticipation of future as well as the exact knowledge of possible or permissable development limits is.'

I think it can be succinctly stated this way:

The risk will be less, the more the future can be knowledgably (or 'accurately') anticipated.

'The future'-- in this revised sentence-- can be understood, from the greater context, to include: how the land will be developed, and how much tourist traffic is anticipated.

Antonia · Answer

Thank you for your suggestions. They have helped me a lot. Can you tell me, please, as a native speker, does it sound really funny/awkard when you read it?

Davkett · Answer

I'll be away from my computer for a while, but I would be happy to review your paragraph when you think you've taken it as far as you can. And, of course, there are other members very capable of doing the same.

Incidentally, I misspelled--should be 'accommodate'

Antonia · Answer

Thanks davkett, I can and will go again through my paragraph, although I'm not allowed to omitt everything I think is redundant because it is translation, not an essay.

Davkett · Answer

Okay.  I apologize for not understanding that you have to be faithful to a translation.  In general, the best translations are not word-for-word.  I think the best I can hope to do is grasp the essential meaning from your sentences, and review them for grammatical fluency.  This could result in omissions, but there is no way around that without knowing the original text from which you are working.  Knowing the original text, however, would not mean anything to me since I can read only English.

Antonia · Answer

Yes, I know that it is unfortunately so. Of course, one- to one translation is not only impossible, but it  sounds really akward. Thank you for your effort. I will do my best and post the paragraph tomorrow. thanks once again

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