steppe

1i00Steppes02i00 to me are high plains in Eurasia. Have I a misconception?0-

0 I don't know. I need to say something about "las estepas de la Patagonia", in Spanish there's no problem with the word "estepas", but even though the literal translation is "steppe" I hava a native friend who told me that to her "steppe" sounds like a Russion thing. 02br
00But I wanted to hear other opinions. So you think "plain" would be the same?02br
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0Patagonia has its own word for plains--01i00 llanos02i00-- which has been in the English vocabulary since 1604. [url=05000]The llanos[/url] of South America is a common phrase. 02br
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0 Yes, you can have 01b00Patagonia02b00 and 01b00steppes02b00 mentioned together:02br
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01b00Patagonia02b00 is a wild and windswept land located near the tip of South02br
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0Hi,02br
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00I've also associated with Argentina and gauchos the word 'pampas'.02br
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0 Oh!02br
00I was just thinking about steppe or plains and now all of these answers have added even more confusion to my already confused head. 05002br
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00The point is that, in the original text (written in Spanish), the word is "estepa", because THAT's the name for it. However, I don't want the English version to sound weird, even when the word is "steppe"

0Gi-Gi,02br
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00The word "steppe" to most English speakers implies Eurasia, and more often Russia, as a location. Likewise, "prairie", IMO, implies the midwest of the United States.02br
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00When in doubt, listen to Henry Higgins: "The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain."02br
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00Plain, or plains, are words perfectly acce