German: gesehen/speaking idiom? (Questions About Your Target Languages) Language Learning Forum

German: gesehen/speaking idiom?
Tags: Idiom \| German
Share with: Delicious Digg reddit Facebook StumbleUpon
Language Learning Forum : Questions About Your Target Languages

M-Squared
Senior Member
United States
Joined 7141 days ago
117 posts - 118 votes

Speaks: English*
Studies: German, Spanish

Message 1 of 2

14 December 2005 at 8:38am | IP Logged

In a German audiomagazine I have the following sentence fragment. It is a commentator talking during the run-up to the last election.

"...in Berlin is wieder mal der Teufel los, politsch gesehen."

I know the first part translates to something like "Once again all hell has broken loose in Berlin," but how should the "politisch gesehen" be translated? I think that an idomatic translation would be, in English, "Politically speaking, once again all hell has broken loose in Berlin," using the "speaking" in the sense of "from the perspective of" the immediately preceding word. This would be like in the sentence "Politically speaking, it was a disaster, but economically it was a minor problem."

Can a German speaker confirm? Is the end clause "politisch gesehen" (politically seen) like the English idiom "politically speaking?"

Thanks

1 person has voted this message useful

Zorndyke
Diglot
Senior Member
Germany
Joined 6960 days ago
374 posts - 382 votes

Speaks: German*, English
Studies: Czech

Message 2 of 2

14 December 2005 at 9:02am | IP Logged

Quote:

I know the first part translates to something like "Once again all hell has broken loose in Berlin," but how should the "politisch gesehen" be translated? I think that an idomatic translation would be, in English, "Politically speaking, once again all hell has broken loose in Berlin," using the "speaking" in the sense of "from the perspective of" the immediately preceding word. This would be like in the sentence "Politically speaking, it was a disaster, but economically it was a minor problem."

Your assumption is 100% correct.
1 person has voted this message useful

If you wish to post a reply to this topic you must first login. If you are not already registered you must first register

Printable version

You cannot post new topics in this forum - You cannot reply to topics in this forum - You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum - You cannot create polls in this forum - You cannot vote in polls in this forum

This page was generated in 0.1250 seconds.