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leche cortada

English translation: off milk/sour milk

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Spanish term or phrase:leche cortada
English translation:off milk/sour milk
Entered by: Noni Gilbert Riley

17:58 Oct 18, 2007
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Food & Drink
Spanish term or phrase: leche cortada
tengo que traducir una cancion de bersuit, se llama OTRA SUDESTADA y cmienza asi:
Viene el olor a otra sudestada, trae el olor a leche cortada:
se intuye un sol naciente, incipiente, detrás del nubarrón ni se siente...
La cancion tarta sobre la inundacion en santa fe donde muchiisima gente se vio afecada
paulacava
off milk/sour milk
Explanation:
The more common usage is off, rather than curdled, imho. Sour milk too.

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Note added at 3 mins (2007-10-18 18:02:40 GMT)
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Or *milk that´s gone off*
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Noni Gilbert Riley
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Local time: 23:03
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4 +8off milk/sour milk
Noni Gilbert Riley
4curdled milk
claudia16 (X)


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +8
off milk/sour milk


Explanation:
The more common usage is off, rather than curdled, imho. Sour milk too.

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Note added at 3 mins (2007-10-18 18:02:40 GMT)
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Or *milk that´s gone off*

Noni Gilbert Riley
Spain
Local time: 23:03
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 40
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Aïda Garcia Pons
10 mins
  -> Thanks Aida
agree  Adriana Penco
10 mins
  -> Thank you arte
agree  Vania de Souza
16 mins
  -> Thanks Vania
agree  Lydia De Jorge
17 mins
  -> Thanks Lydia.
agree  Giles Bickford: sour milk
29 mins
  -> Thanks Giles - yes, sour is probably a spot more elegant.
agree  Cesar Serrano
32 mins
  -> Thanks César.
agree  Manuel Rossetti (X)
46 mins
  -> Thanks Emily.
agree  Kate Major Patience: Yes, sour sounds nice, given the context. :)
2 hrs
  -> Thanks Kate
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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
curdled milk


Explanation:
x


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Note added at 6 mins (2007-10-18 18:05:16 GMT)
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We can smell another south-east hit
it brings the scent/pong of curdled milk

suponiendo que sudestada se refiere a algo que viene del sudeste


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Note added at 35 mins (2007-10-18 18:34:12 GMT)
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claudia16 (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:03
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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