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Old February 20, 2011, 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted by laepelba View Post
In #6, maybe it's a BrE vs. AmE thing. I would never hear "the work was for 4:00" as "it needs to be finished by 4:00". So this use of "para" indicates deadlines....
Actually, it would perhaps be understood, but is bad English. I was stretching a point to make the English a literal translation of the Spanish. Your version is much better.
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