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Spanish translation: pastel/torta de capas

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21:27 Aug 29, 2011

English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Cooking / Culinary

English term or phrase: layer cake

Hola tengo dudas acerca del nombre del siguiente término en español:"The contrast between the British and American situations can be illustrated by an adaptation of Haugen's image of the sociolinguistic Hierarchy as a layer cake".
De antemano muchas gracias.

rositamartin

Spanish translation:pastel/torta de capas

Explanation:
http://definicion.dictionarist.com/layer cake

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DANII
Local time: 23:41

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pastel/torta de capas

DANII

capas/estratos

Susana González Tuya

jerarquia categorial/pastel de varios pisos

Marjory Hord

Discussion entries: 2

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pastel/torta de capas

Explanation:
http://definicion.dictionarist.com/layer cake

DANII
Local time: 23:41
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4

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21 mins confidence:

jerarquia categorial/pastel de varios pisos

Explanation:
el primero: http://books.google.ca/books?id=4IEkAI-I9koC&pg=PA89&lpg=PA8...
el 2o: http://bodasreales.hola.com/principe-alberto-monaco-charlene...

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Note added at 29 mins (2011-08-29 21:57:01 GMT)
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pastel, torta, o como lo llamen en la variante meta

Marjory Hord
Mexico
Local time: 23:11
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4

10 hrs confidence:

capas/estratos

Explanation:
Personalmente evitaría reproducir la metáfora ya que en castellano no funciona bien (al menos en España) y la sustituiraia por significado.

i.e.: ... adaptando la imagen de Haugen sobre las capas jerarquicas de la sociolinguistica".

Susana González Tuya
Local time: 06:11
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4

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Aug 29, 2011 - Changes made by xxxmediamatrix:
Field	Other => Tech/Engineering
Field (specific)	Linguistics => Cooking / Culinary
Field (write-in)	linguistics => (none)

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