a favor de

11:00 Dec 9, 2010 

And also for your helpful references, which helped persuade me that "in favour of" can be used in this context.

10:40 Dec 9, 2010 

Personally I don't think reclassifying this question was appropriate; I think it was a legitimate professional query. That is why I took the trouble to post references. It does not seem to me an elementary question, even though the answer in this case turns out to be what one might have guessed without any special knowledge.

02:33 Dec 9, 2010 

You embody the support that I value from fellow positive Proz-ers.
Abrazos desde un Londres friísimo!!
Brrrrrrr

02:26 Dec 9, 2010 

I have been a translator for more than 30 years. However, I ask questions very often, just as you did now, only to make sure.

The only cases that IMO justify reclassifying a questin as non-pro are those where it is evident that the asker is not even bothering to open a dictionary or google a term.

Take it easy, dear! Those of us who have known you for years would never think you "don't know"!
Cheers,
María Eugenia

02:24 Dec 9, 2010 

Thank you for all your help. As I said when I posted the question, "in favour of" just didn't seem natural to me so I thought there might be a more accurate alternative... From the overwhelming agrees, it looks like I was wrong.
Thank you very much for taking the trouble to help as I sat here alone for 12 hours today wrestling with 9000 words of this hard-going text (written by a law firm for its multinational client)...

02:12 Dec 9, 2010 

In my opinion, voting to reclassify a question as non-Pro is in itself "stifling participation" in this site, since its effect is to make the poster (ie me in this case) feel I shouldn't ask clarifying questions that help ensure that I do the best job I can. The fact that I (a professional full-time translator working with regular agencies for years, and accredited as "Pro" by Proz) feel the need to check something that I am not 100% sure of, but which is obvious to others, does not make the question non-Pro.
I find it insulting and wholly unnecessary that someone else should judge me or my question as non-Pro just because I don't happen to be sure. I'm sure there are plenty of things that people voting to reclassify as non-Pro don't know that I do. But that doesn't make either of us more "Pro" than the other.
Since there is no practical benefit in reclassifying a question (at least not as far as I can see), to my mind, voting to reclassify is the online equivalent of laughing at someone for not knowing something... a form of stifling learning. I certainly wouldn't do it. And as the tone of my earlier comment suggests, I don't take kindly to others doing so to me.

01:15 Dec 9, 2010 

I wish there was a LIKE button on this site!

21:47 Dec 8, 2010 

I don't think name-calling, ie. "pompous" is appropriate on this site. Voting pro or non-pro should not be taken personally. We do not look at all the work on your desk or the symbols next to youir name. We should feel free to vote as we please without the fear of being called a name. It is so counter-productive to stifle any kind of participation in a site such as this!

17:38 Dec 8, 2010 

It's pompous and it's unnecessary.
Clearly, I am not a "non Pro" and if you saw the level of the language in this text and many of the other texts I do all day evrye day, you would agree with that.
Plus unlike you, I do have a Proz accredited Profesisional symbol next to my name.
Of course I know that "in favor of " is a perfectly valid clause. I'm just not sure that it works in the context here.