mosca

English translation: initial

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Spanish term or phrase:	mosca (Chile slang)
English translation:	initial
Entered by:	patinba

23:18 Aug 5, 2010

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Spanish term or phrase: mosca

En Chile decimos "mosca" a una marca que hacemos en los documentos que tenemos que firmar, entonces para no hacer la firma en cada página, hacemos una "mosca" que es la "manera corta" de firmar. Estaba pensando en el término "tick" en inglés, pero ese es un "visto". ¿Podría ser "mark"? Quizás en inglés sólo sea "signature", pero no lo creo.

Any suggestions?

Soledad Guzmán Rodríguez KudoZ activity Questions: 52 (2 open) (1 without valid answers) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 44 Chile
Local time: 18:57

initial

Explanation:
Es lo que se dice en inglés en estos casos.

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Formato de archivo: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Vista rápida
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Selected response from:

patinba
Argentina
Local time: 21:57

Grading comment

Thanks for your help. It was very helpful.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +6

initial

patinba

3 +1

squiggle

Jennifer Levey

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

1 min confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

initial

patinba
Argentina
Local time: 21:57
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 32

Grading comment

Thanks for your help. It was very helpful.

21 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

squiggle

Explanation:
patinba's translation is the correct formal translation of the noun associated with 'rubricar', in the sense of putting a short-form signature on every page of a document except the last, which receives a full signature.

But if Soledad needs a slang term (to match 'mosca') then 'squiggle' is one commonly-used word in this context, as here:

Gas Chambers: The Unreliability of Pressac's Documents - [ Traducir esta página ]
All documents marked BW 30/43 are Soviet photocopies. This includes nearly all the correspondence, and about half of the time sheets and work sheets the very documents which Pressac ... Kirschenek's squiggle should also be compared: p. ... if this is supposed to be the same person who signed his name in full on pp. ...
www.codoh.com/gcgv/gcpprsac2.html - En caché - Similares

Jennifer Levey
Chile
Local time: 20:57
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 27

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