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Tech/Engineering | | English term or phrase: abreviaturas de medidas | Does anybody know the acceptable way of abbreviating feet and inches in Spanish? The RAE has just confirmed to me that one can use ' and ", but many technical editors insist that one uses a spanish abbreviation, such as pulg or pda. Feet, of course, they want us to use pie or pies.
This can be very cumbersome, particularly in large graphs and tables. In order to save space, sometimes I have had to use a footnote, but it is not always possible. Another "little problem" arises when converting english to metric, for example stuff like lbs.x sq.ft, etc. |
| | | Spanish translation:pie = none, pulgada = pulg. | Explanation:
There's no way that 'pie', which is a monosyllable, can be abbreviated. Although I'm always hesitant about actually abbreviating 'pulgada' as well, it has always been 'pulg.' And, yes, you are on the safe side if you use the quotation and double quotation for 'pie' and 'pulgada', respectively. |
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Lisa Siegel-Cruz
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| Grading comment Gracias a todos los que me ofrecieron ayuda.
¡Saludos!
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18 mins I perfectly agree with you, however, I have found most convenient
Explanation:
to use the universal symbols:
5' (five feet or 5 pies)
6" (six inches or 6 pulgadas)
This is understood my all and saves a lot of space.
Good Luck!
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21 mins pies 2 (con el no. dos arriba) o bien ft2
Explanation:
No hace mucho hice esta misma pregunta al departamento de consultas del diccionario de la Real Academia Española. A continuación le transcribo su mensaje y añado el alias de la RAE en la red.
Atentos saludos,
Aloria
"Para referirse de forma abreviada a la unidad de longitud pie, usted
puede utilizar el símbolo invariable "ft" escrito siempre sin punto.
Ejemplo:
Rollo de 120 m (400 ft) de hojas térmicas.
Reciba un cordial saludo.
--
Departamento de Consultas
RAE"
Consulta3 <consu3@rae.es>
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2 hrs Ver abajo
Explanation:
La forma que yo suelo usar, es la abreviatura del idioma original, haciendo una acotación bajo el texto completo con un breve explicación del término.
Suerte con ello!
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6 hrs pie = none, pulgada = pulg.
Explanation:
There's no way that 'pie', which is a monosyllable, can be abbreviated. Although I'm always hesitant about actually abbreviating 'pulgada' as well, it has always been 'pulg.' And, yes, you are on the safe side if you use the quotation and double quotation for 'pie' and 'pulgada', respectively.
| | | Grading comment Gracias a todos los que me ofrecieron ayuda.
¡Saludos! |
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