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I had my sentence of `今日は友達の車で警告を読んで、和英翻訳してみることにします` ("Today I will read the
warning in my friend's car and try to do a Japanese to English translation of
it") corrected to become:

> 今日は友達の車の中で読んだ警告 **というところ** を和英翻訳してみることにします.

Specifically, I am unable to understand this portion: `というところ`.

These are the only forms I know:

  * Verbところ - is just about to do [verb]

  * Verbているところ - in the midst of doing [verb]

  * Verb-Pastところ - had just done [verb]

  * Verbていたところ - has been doing [verb]

  * Eventところを - in the midst of [Event]

`読んだ警告という` does not fall within the above analyses. It is a noun modified by a
relative clause. What does `ところ` do in this case?
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Which ところ is this?
I am not sure if the person that corrected your sentence understands Japanese
enough, or understands your intention. Your original sentence means:

> Today, I will read a warning in my friend's car, and do a Japanese to
> English translation (of it).

The modified sentence means:

> Today, I will do a Japanese to English translation of the
> portion/chapter/section/etc. titled "warning" that I read inside my friend's
> car.

A natural translation for `ところ` in this case is "portion" (some place within a
text).
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In this case, (という)ところ just refers to the place (or "part") of _what is going
to try to be translated_ by the speaker of that subject.

という can be used almost anywhere:

> Xという人 -- An X type of person. -or- A person called X.  
>  Xということ -- An X type of thing.

In English, という is **kind of like** using (the somewhat dated phrase) "so-
called" along with quote marks `""` around something that is being referred
to, like this:

> The _so-called_ "problem" ...

(Though it can be more accurate to use といわれる (or いわゆる,) here, for an actual
"so-called" translation.)

For という, however, most people would probably use _"what you call"_ , like
this:

> (It's,) _what you call_ , the "problem" ...
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[An explanation of
というところ。](http://books.google.com/books?id=qY4y4ICziw8C&pg=PA16&lpg=PA16&dq=to%20iu%20tokoro&source=bl&ots=cDbba1tYzC&sig=-S8ozmrq5FGX0VrbUkhsIANhulY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WZxST-
GJAaeIsgLz5ujvBQ&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=to%20iu%20tokoro&f=false)

It's in section 2.4.9 on page 15 and 16. I found it interesting that someone
can use というところ when talking about unfamiliar topic or the topic is being
broached or described in an unusual way.
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