Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

perfil de usuario de procedencia heterogénea

English translation:

user profile with heterogeneous background

Added to glossary by Lisa McCarthy
Nov 26, 2009 22:32
14 yrs ago
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Spanish term

perfil de usuario de procedencia heterogénea

Spanish to English Other Other master's course in Designing public spaces
A master's course re designing public spaces:

A QUIEN SE DIRIGE
La oferta, por la naturaleza de los argumentos tratados y la integración de las disciplinas involucradas en la organización del evento colectivo, se dirige a un ***perfil de usuario de procedencia heterogénea***, que adquirirá, gracias a una sistematización de los conocimientos, una capacidad crítica y estratégica superior para garantizar una formación completa.

Discussion

mediamatrix (X) Nov 26, 2009:
That struck me ... ... as rather odd, too. That's why I put 'people' in my answer. Usuario might be OK if it happens to be an on-line course, but otherwise ...
Lisa McCarthy (asker) Nov 26, 2009:
user profile As this is for a course, is it usual to refer to potential students as 'users'? I find this a bit odd (but maybe it is in fact a term used in this context too).

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user profile with heterogeneous background

user profile with heterogeneous origin
Peer comment(s):

agree Gilberto Diaz Castro : This would be correct, even when it is the first time I see this word in use in my whole life.
7 mins
muchas gracias Gilberto!
neutral Jennifer Levey : If anyone said to me that I had a 'heterogeneous background' (which might be true, scientifically speaking) I'd burst out laughing. This is not English as she is spoke.
21 mins
have it your non-heterogeneous way
agree Ramon Somoza : Sorry, mediatrix, but "heterogeneous" is not Wide-ranging". Pls. check Webster's.
58 mins
muchas gracias, Ramon!
agree Emma Ratcliffe
20 hrs
thanks a lot, Emma!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks, SwissTell!"
19 mins

a user profile with a collective background

another suggestion.
good luck!

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Note added at 30 mins (2009-11-26 23:03:38 GMT)
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eclectic was actually the word I was looking for.
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14 mins

people with wide-ranging backgrounds

My reading...

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Note added at 41 mins (2009-11-26 23:14:21 GMT)
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Clarification: 'perfil de usuario' does not refer here to the profile of an individual person who might be interested in the course. It refers to the type/category of person who might be interested. As in, I want to teach the 'under-fives', for example.
Peer comment(s):

neutral swisstell : wide-ranging? Like the coyotes or the antelopes?
15 hrs
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