Mysteries of vernacular: Miniature - Jessica Oreck

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Transcriber: Andrea McDonough Reviewer: Bedirhan Cinar
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Prevodilac: Mile Živković Lektor: Anja Saric
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Mysteries of Vernacular
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Misterije kolokvijalnog jezika:
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Miniature,
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minijaturno,
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something distinctively smaller
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nešto što je znatno manje
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than other members of its type or class.
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od drugih članova istog tipa ili klase.
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Miniature traces its roots to the Latin, <i>minium</i>,
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"Minijaturno" potiče od latinske reči "minium"
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which meant, "red lead".
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što je značilo "crveno olovo".
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Minium referred, in particular, to a compound of lead
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Minium se odnosio na jedinjenje olova
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used as a pigment in Medieval times.
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koje se koristilo kao boja u Srednjem veku.
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In those days, because there were no printing presses,
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U to vreme, pošto nisu postojale štamparijske prese,
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groups of scribes were tasked with
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grupe pisara dobijale su zadatak
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painstakingly copying all books by hand.
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da mukotrpno prepišu sve knjige ručno.
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Whenever they needed to denote a chapter break
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Kada god su morali da označe naredno poglavlje
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or a division of text,
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ili pauzu u tekstu,
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scribes would switch from standard black
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pisari bi se prebacili sa standardne crne
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to the red pigment, minium.
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na crvenu boju, minium.
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Another important visual device used to increase
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Drugo bitno sredstvo za uvećavanje
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the prominence of certain portions of text
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bitnosti određenih delova teksta
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was to set them off
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bilo je da se odvoje
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with large, ornate, and colorful capital letters,
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velikim, ukrasnim i živopisnim slovima,
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often surrounded by tiny, detailed paintings.
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koja su često bila okružena sićušnim i detaljnim slikama.
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The Italians began to refer
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Italijani su ove kompleksne
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to these elaborate and diminutive paintings
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i malecne slike počeli da nazivaju
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as <i>miniatura</i>, illuminations.
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"miniatura", iluminacijama.
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Because of the necessarily small size of the paintings,
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Zbog male veličine slika,
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miniatura began to be associated with all things wee
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reč "miniatura" je počela da se povezuje sa svim malim stvarima
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and spawned to other words with the same base,
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i pokrenula je druge reči sa istom osnovom,
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like the Latin <i>minimum</i>, for least.
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poput latinske "minimum", što znači najmanje.
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Miniatura was transmuted into English
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Miniatura je preneta u engleski
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in the 16th century as the word, <i>miniature</i>,
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u 16. veku kao reč "miniature",
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and since that time,
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i od tada je imala
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it has had the exact same meaning we use today.
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isto značenje koje i danas koristimo.
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