Dec 30, 2016 16:45
7 yrs ago
Spanish term

corrillento

Spanish to English Other General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters Questionnaires
From questionnaire responses from Mexico for translation to US English:

"Que esta agradable no es tan corrillento y que esta en un lugar cercano."

Discussion

Helena Chavarria Dec 30, 2016:
In that case, it seems to have something to do with making the workers run or making them stressed. Nos traen a presión = Nos presionan.
BristolTEc (asker) Dec 30, 2016:
Sorry, it is true that I have not mentioned the question they were answering. There were basically 2: what things are good; and what can be done to make things better.
I have also just come across another example of "corrillento":
"No respetan horarios de comida, no dan los equipos para aplicar quimicos (guantes) son muy corrillentos nos traen a presión, "

The "stream of consciousness" idea fits what I am translating very well. There is little punctuation and what there is seems to have been put in randomly or even to confuse!
patinba Dec 30, 2016:
Nowhere in any of your questions have I seen any decent context that might lead to intelligent proposals. What are they being questioned about? What was the question that led to the answer?
Helena Chavarria Dec 30, 2016:
@Robert I know what you mean, though I've only ever translated typed questionnaires.
Robert Carter Dec 30, 2016:
Helena, I translated some handwritten HR questionnaires filled out by migrant laborers in the US a few months back. It was quite hard to understand many of them, what with the misspellings and lack of punctuation. They often had a kind of "stream of consciousness" style.
Helena Chavarria Dec 30, 2016:
Robert's interpretation would be right if the person answering the questionnaire has missed out a comma, which is quite possible!

Que esta agradable, no es tan corrillento y que esta en un lugar cercano.

Proposed translations

7 hrs
Selected

stressful, hectic, fast moving

Guessing from all the comments. Interesting job!
Something went wrong...
3 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "At least seems most likely, thanks"
13 mins

ordinary / low quality / tacky / cheap /

Misspelling of "corriente", I would imagine.
In Mexico, the meaning of "corriente" usually leans more towards "cheap" or "low quality" than "ordinary", but it will depend on the context.
Perhaps "it's not so cheap looking" or "it's a bit more classy" is the sense.

VI 1 adj m y f Que es común, que no sobresale, que es de baja calidad: zapato corriente, vestido corriente 2 adj m y f Que es vulgar en su trato: un hombre muy corriente
Luis F. Lara, Diccionario del español usual en México
Something went wrong...
14 mins

corriente (usual)

It's not usual to find such a pleasant place (?) so near.
Something went wrong...
20 hrs

cliquish/clannish/cliquey

Another possibility. It's a shot in the dark as I can't find any referrences for the word and from the context, it could be a variety of things, and any of the answers above.
The nearest word I can find is "corrillo" so it could be related, as in "corrillo" + suffix "ento".
Defintion of "corillo";
corrillo(Derivado de corro.)
s. m. Grupo de personas que en una reunión o en un sitio concurrido hablan entre ellas apartadas de las demás ¿de qué hablan en ese corrillo? cerco, círculo, corro.
Gran Diccionario de la Lengua Española © 2016 Larousse Editorial, S.L.
corrillo
m. Corro donde se juntan algunos a discurrir y hablar, separados de los demás.
Diccionario Enciclopédico Vox 1. © 2009 Larousse Editorial, S.L.

Traducciones
corrillo; clique, coterie, huddle
corrillo SM (= grupo) → huddle, small group (pey) → clique, coterie

http://es.thefreedictionary.com/corrillos
It seems to me that the meaning has negative tones, in the first example the speaker is saying that a good thing is that in the workplace people are not cliquey, and in the second example the speaker is saying that one of the bad aspects of the workplace is that people are cliquey, other workers form closed groups.

Something went wrong...
Term search
  • All of ProZ.com
  • Term search
  • Jobs
  • Forums
  • Multiple search