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Fighting Cocks are calmed by their handlers by placing the rooster's head in the mouth. Darkness causes birds to immediately begin the sleep cycle. It was explained to me (by a great Restaurant ower in Acuna, Mex.)that often as soon as the handler put the bird's head in his mouth he would often be pecked on the tongue. The spices in the salsa gives the ...
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I'm my experience (Argentina), there is a correlation with both (related) meanings of congratulate:
Give (someone) one's good wishes when something special or pleasant has happened to them. => "Desear felicidades" (also "Felicitar")
Praise (someone) for a particular achievement. => "Felicitar"
As exclamation, "¡Felicidades!" is more used for the first ...
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"Ver [address] en Google Maps" > Sounds to me like "Me: Tarzán, you Cheeta" speak. Like an automatic translation.
I will translate as:
Visita Google Maps para ver la [adress].
or:
Mira Busca la [adress] en Google Maps.
Why the use of definite article "la"?
Because "street" is feminine singular in spanish. Depends type of street (avenue, road, ...
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No, I don’t like very much sobre la marcha. I mean, not always, and in “software science translations” almost never. I don’t feel it translate the whole idea exactly, with sometimes is: immediately and automatically, without user’s or external elements intervention.
There are many other possibilities.
My favorite is the simple direct translation: “al ...
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"Al toque" sounds to me like Latin America spanish... in Spain, al least in Madrid, we don't use that expression.
"On the fly" can be translated in several forms, but "sobre la marcha" I think is the most accurate. Other forms can be "al momento", "instantáneo" or "conforme se vea". Depends from context, but I think "sobre la marcha" is the most elegant, ...
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As spaniard, i can say i use all of them, except the second:
Mi vuelo está a las 10. Don' use this one.
@Walter As a passenger is very ok to say: Vuelo a las 10
Most commonly, it's said "Mi vuelo es a las 10"
So, mi vuelo es a las 10, y tengo que estar dos horas antes... :-)
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