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Foros

English translation: Fora

13:02 Aug 3, 2000
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial
Spanish term or phrase: Foros
Foros de discusion. Se dice "forums" o "fora"?
Victoria Solessi
English translation:Fora
Explanation:
Forum is a Latin word and the correct plural form is Fora. Other examples of this plural forms are: bacteriUM - BacteriA, CurriculUM - curriculA
Therefore fora is the correct one.
Another possible translation (though it's not as exact) could be "chat rooms"

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kropotkin (X)
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Summary of answers provided
naForums está bien
Alexandro Padres Jimenez
naforums
wendy griswold
naForums
Claudia Berison
nafora
BAQMIA
naFora
kropotkin (X)
naJust to prove that ignorance isn't always bliss
Alexandro Padres Jimenez


  

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4 mins
Forums está bien


Explanation:
En internet abunda el término.

Puedes hacer un search en google por "forums" y encontrarás más de 9 millones de resultados.

Suerte


    Reference: http://www.google.com
Alexandro Padres Jimenez
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Dyran Altenburg (X)
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4 mins
forums


Explanation:
Based on having an "American" ear. Forums is more colloquial. Random House unabridged dictionary accepts both, so you can't go wrong!


    Random House unabridged English dictionary
wendy griswold
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6 mins
Forums


Explanation:
Lo correcto en realidad es fora, pero en las páginas web aparece forums en todas las que recuerdo (p.ej., el New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com). Suerte!!!

Claudia Berison
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13 mins
fora


Explanation:
The plural of forum is fora... why not use the language as we should?

HTH

BAQMIA
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7 hrs
Fora


Explanation:
Forum is a Latin word and the correct plural form is Fora. Other examples of this plural forms are: bacteriUM - BacteriA, CurriculUM - curriculA
Therefore fora is the correct one.
Another possible translation (though it's not as exact) could be "chat rooms"

Good luck!

kropotkin (X)
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11 hrs
Just to prove that ignorance isn't always bliss


Explanation:
Random House Webster´s Unabridged Dictionary (CD Rom version) has the following for the plural of forum:

fo·rum (fôrÆÃm, fŽrÆÃm), n., pl. fo·rums, fo·ra (fôrÆÃ, fŽrÆÃ).

Both are equally acceptable and, from the searches I mentioned, forums seems quite acceptable for "web" terminology.

Just to check, I ran the same search on google for fora (with English only sites) and found a meager 317,000

Alexandro Padres Jimenez
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