Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
sous-hommes
English translation:
sub-humans
French term
sous-hommes
L'histoire de sous-hommes et demi
Virus indésirables
Qui grouillent vers la vie
Dans la plaie de la ville
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Sandra & Kenneth Grossman
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| 4 +2 | lesser men |
Eric Daimay
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| 4 +2 | a lesser race |
Paul Hirsh
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| 4 | Untermenschen |
rkillings
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YorickJenkins
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Laura D'Angelo (X)
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| 3 | human vermin |
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| 2 | un-/non-/barely humans |
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Feb 24, 2013 06:25: narasimha (X) Created KOG entry
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Israel
Quality, Reliability, Experience.
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sub-humans
"Subhuman"(german: untermenschen) is a term from Nazi racial ideology. Derived from 19th century racial theory, Nazi ideology held that the German nation, as Herrenvolk, had a right to rule over the world and that Germanic peoples were, as the master race (Herrenrasse), superior to other European peoples (such as Slavic peoples and Romanic peoples) and that all other peoples represented lesser races of varying degrees. Groups regarded as SUBHUMAN (Untermenschen) included inferior racial element (such as Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Altaic peoples or Africans) and asocial element (such as the mentally or physically disabled and homosexuals, but also criminals and prostitutes, beggars and tramps, leftists, liberals and political dissidents, Jehovah's Witnesses and so-called morally degenerates). Generally people who worked against the Third Reich or who were breaking its laws were regarded as Untermenschen. The term was borrowed from older 19th century sources.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=subhumans
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YorickJenkins
: Actually the term subhuman was used by Stoddart (Risng Tide of Color) before the national socialists. The notion, along with an expression which might be loosely translated as Untermensch was used by all kinds of peoples, not least the Ancient Greeks.
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inferior beings
sous-hommes.
"sous-homme" definition:
Sens: Homme jugé inférieur par sa race, son état, sa nationalité... Les nazis considéraient les juifs comme des sous-hommes.
I would translate this expression with "inferior beings"
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or "lesser men"
lesser men
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Jocelyne Cuenin
: Peut-être faut-il garder 'men and a half'. rajl û nas (lit. un homme et demi) peut désigner un homme avec un plus (instruit etc.) ou une femme estimée pour s'en sortir sans l'aide d'un homme (Maroc, par ex.). Ses poèmes parlent de la place des femmes ??
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Nikki Scott-Despaigne
: I agree that this is more poetic
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The Human Translator
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a lesser race
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Yvonne Gallagher
: a lesser race of half-men
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un-/non-/barely humans
Not grammatically perfect, but then this is poetry; grammar is important, but not a priority :)
'Barely' may be an alternative for un/non: "...the story of the barely humans..."; a bit awkward, though...
...the story of non-humans...
...the story of un-humans...
human vermin
Untermenschen
Consider the antonym. In English, does say "Ubermensch" convey the same meaning as saying "Superman"? Of course not. Q.E.D.
semi-human beings
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More context
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John Holland
: As your link shows, the text is from a poem Tanella Boni, published in her collection "Labyrinthe" in 1984.
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More information on the author
"(Suzanne) Tannella Boni (born 1954) is an Ivorian poet and novelist.
Born in Abidjan, Tanella Boni did her advanced studies in Toulouse, France, and the University of Paris. She became a professor of philosophy at the University of Abidjan, where she also writes poems, novels, short stories, criticism, and children's literature.
She served as President of the Writers' Association of Côte d'Ivoire from 1991 to 1997 and organized Abidjan's International Poetry Festival. In 2005, she received the Ahmadou Kourouma Prize for her novel Matins de couvre-feu."
Also: http://www.tanellaboni.net/
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