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It is not a bad word, not undescriptive, but it has no explanatory power.
No es un mal término, no carece de capacidad descriptiva, pero sí de capacidad explicativa.
When I say child I use an inappropriate and undescriptive term--a term suggesting any picture rather than that of the demure little person in a mourning frock and white chemisette, that might just have fitted a good-sized doll--perched now on a high chair beside a stand, whereon was her toy work-box of white varnished wood, and holding in her hands a shred of a handkerchief, which she was professing to hem, and at which she bored perseveringly with a needle, that in her fingers seemed almost a skewer, pricking herself ever and anon, marking the cambric with a track of minute red dots;
Cuando digo niña, utilizo un término inapropiado y nada descriptivo, un término que sugiere una imagen muy distinta de la criatura de aspecto grave, vestida con un traje negro y una blusa blanca que le habrían valido a una muñeca grande; sentada ahora en una silla alta al lado de una mesita, sobre la que descansaba un costurero de juguete de madera blanca barnizada;
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