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French term or phrase:
ce n'est qu'un ensemble épars
English translation:
nothing more than random collection
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Lilian Magalhães
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ce n'est qu'un ensemble épars
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etnografia
Le journal de terrain est constitutif du métier d'ethnographe; mais ce n'est qu'un ensemble épars de notes hétérogènes. Sa publication, en respectant un classement chornologique, crée la fiction romanesque d'un narrateur-ethnographe. Censurer la publication permet de ne pas censurer l'écriture. Les matériaux censurés ne sont pas de l'ordre de l'intime mais de l'ordre du non (encore) intelligible.
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nothing more than a disparate collection
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margaret caulfield
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this is only a scattered group of ...
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Melissa McMahon
: I prefer "scattered" for "epars" - would combine with eutychus for "scattered collection" :)
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Mariana CHIRILA
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Is nothing but a scattered set of …
Is nothing but a scattered set of or group of……….
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Jim Tucker (X)
: scattered collection
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mimi 254
: scattered collection of....
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polyglot45
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just a flimsy collection
of scattered jottings
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is only a collection of scattered notes
I don't think you need to translate 'rien que' literally here, that gives it too much emphasis. And logically, it is not the collection that is scattered but the notes, which have now been assembled into a collection. This is a common expression, which you can find many examples of if you google it.
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Jim Tucker (X)
: yes - but the hypallage ("scattered collection") is not a problem either, and sounds quite natural
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