Ing. John Doe

English translation: Ingeniero

08:17 Jun 27, 2001

Spanish to English translations [Non-PRO]
Bus/Financial

Spanish term or phrase: Ing. John Doe

This is a title that in a business letter--what does the Ing. refer to besides engineer? In this case it is not engineer.

Roberto

English translation:Ingeniero

Explanation:
Ing= Ingeniero

Saludos,

BSD

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Bertha S. Deffenbaugh
United States
Local time: 19:31

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Summary of answers provided

na +2

Ingeniero

Bertha S. Deffenbaugh

Enginner / technocrat

Telesforo Fernandez (X)

courtesy title Mr. John Doe

Lia Fail (X)

[hypothetical] "MR. JOHN DOE" -- SEÑOR [SR.] FULANO DE TAL"

Terry Burgess

na -1

Mr or nothing

Joseph Royal

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4 mins peer agreement (net): +2

Ingeniero

Explanation:
Ing= Ingeniero

Saludos,

BSD

Bertha S. Deffenbaugh
United States
Local time: 19:31
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in pair: 219

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11 mins peer agreement (net): -1

Mr or nothing

Explanation:
This can mean "Engineer" or just a person with a college degree. i've run into it a million times in the translations i've been doing for the past 3 years.

Mr/Mrs. can be used if you feel the need to include a title.

otherwise, leave it out. we have no good equivalent in English and no important meaning is lost. never put "Engineer" even if that's what the person is.

you can't use "doctor" since that would imply more than is meant by ingeniero

Joseph Royal
United States
Local time: 19:31
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 78

21 mins

Enginner / technocrat

Explanation:
Engineer is absolutely correct. But you may use 'technocrat' since it refers to a business letter, probably related to technical matter, a technical production, or enginnering.
But Engineer would be just fine.

Telesforo Fernandez (X)
Local time: 08:01
PRO pts in pair: 262

4 hrs

courtesy title Mr. John Doe

Explanation:
Ing. refers, as all previous contributors have said, to 'engineer'.

To use it like this is as a courtesy title, so the equivalent in English would be to address the person as Mr. John Doe (and if it were necessary for clarification, you could add Engineer in brackets, but only if absolutely necessary).

Lia Fail (X)
Spain
Local time: 04:31
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 1368

7 hrs

[hypothetical] "MR. JOHN DOE" -- SEÑOR [SR.] FULANO DE TAL"

Explanation:

Hi Roberto!
I agree with all my colleagues in that the abbreviation "Ing." usually means "Ingeniero" or "Engineer. However, YOU have expressly stated that in your case, IT IS NOT Engineer. I agree.

In law, the term "John Doe" is used to describe an "unknown" or hypothetical person (man) and "Jane Doe" is used for a woman.

Unless you discover otherwise, I believe the "Ing." simply means "Mr." [Mister] and so the whole term in Spanish would be:
"Sr.Fulano de Tal".

Espero te sirva:-)
tb.

Exp.

Terry Burgess
Mexico
Local time: 20:31
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 2372

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