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Italian
Etymology
Ltierally, "if not other."
Adverb
se non altro
- anyway, at least, if nothing else
- Synonyms: almeno, perlomeno
2007, David Foster Wallace, “La persona depressa [The Depressed Person]”, in Ottavio Fatica, Giovanna Granato, transl., Brevi interviste con uomini schifosi [Brief Interviews with Hideous Men], Einaudi:Disperando, dunque, di descrivere il dolore emotivo... la persona depressa descriveva invece circostanze, passate e attuali, legate in qualche modo al dolore, alla sua eziologia e causa, sperando se non altro di riuscire a esprimere agli altri qualcosa del contesto di quel dolore...- Despairing, then, of describing the emotional pain itself, the depressed person hoped at least to be able to express something of its context, its shape and texture, as it were-by recounting circumstances related to its etiology.
- (literally, “Despairing, therefore, of describing the emotional pain... the depressed person instead described circumstances, past and current, linked in some way to the pain, to its etiology and cause, hoping if nothing else to be able to express to others something of the context of that pain...”)
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