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I vaguely remember a word from 19th century novels: pince nez or something like that.
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Pince nez glasses on Teddy Roosevelt:

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Thanks for the replies. I'll keep in mind "strength" whenever I have to explain the kind of glasses I'm wearing.


@Bob: a magnifying glass is a "lupa".


@Lou Ann: something bothered me about "contact glasses", but google didn't correct me.
Btw, if you say "anteojos", no one will think you're using a wrong word, but younger people tend to use it less.


@Irma: Me sonó raro que se usara "anteojos" para "prismáticos" o "binoculares", pero pensándolo bien, sí he escuchado "anteojo" para "catalejo". Debió ser lógico.
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I've heard "anteojos" with the sense of "prismáticos" (binoculars, I think).
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I associate "anteojos" with glasses without the bits to hold them onto your ears (how do you say "patillas" in English?).
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It's usually given as a positive or negative number, often with a decimal value.
Three numbers: spherical diopter, cylindrical diopter, orientation of cylinder. If they only put one number then it would be the spherical diopter, and no cylindrical component is necessary because you don't have astigmatism.

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Pince nez glasses on Teddy Roosevelt:
La palabra suena a "pinza en la nariz"
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La palabra suena a "pinza en la nariz"
Sí, claro. Pince nez son palabras prestadas de francés, y francés parece
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Sí, recordaba la palabra francesa "nez". Pero fíjate en "nose"
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