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Old April 10, 2011, 04:29 PM
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Question Ahora
ahora.
(De agora).
1. adv. t. A esta hora, en este momento, en el tiempo actual o presente.
2. adv. t. Poco tiempo ha. Ahora me lo han dicho.
3. adv. t. Dentro de poco tiempo. Ahora te lo diré.
4. adv. t. Am. hoy.
5. conj. distrib. Ahora hable de ciencias, ahora de artes, siempre es atinado su juicio.
6. conj. advers. Pero, sin embargo.
~ bien.
1. loc. conjunt. Esto supuesto o sentado. Ahora bien, ¿qué se pretende lograr con esa diligencia?
The above is the DRAE defintion for "ahora" (now).
Now, my question has to do with definition 6. I.e., when "now" means "but, however" which is used in English many times in a colloquial register, sometimes, why, without any meaning, (besides the adversative sense...)

In some of my translated speeches (colloquial register) I have been told more than once that I may be using an excess of "ahora"s in this sense...

Yet, I follow the original English...

Ahora, ¿qué percepción tenéis vosotros/tienen ustedes... de esta palabrita?

I am writing in English and Spanish, as I'd like views from both English speakers and Spanish ones alike, about this matter...

(Probably not a very crucial issue, but interesting to me...)
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Old April 10, 2011, 10:47 PM
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now=ahora, pienso que es una muletilla, y va a depender de lo que estás traduciendo y para quien. ¿no?
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Old April 13, 2011, 01:28 AM
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Gracias por tu punto de vista. (La considero una muletilla también, pero a veces he usado este "ahora" en el sentido de "ahora bien" en un lenguaje coloquial...)
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Old April 13, 2011, 07:32 AM
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Gracias por tu punto de vista. (La considero una muletilla también, pero a veces he usado este "ahora" en el sentido de "ahora bien" en un lenguaje coloquial...)
También es una muletilla... (ahora bien)
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Sí, es una muletilla, a veces uno sin darse cuenta empieza a usar una palabra con demasiada frecuencia y si alguien no se lo hace ver, uno ni se entera.

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Bueno, vale, lo dicho, puede ser una muletilla.

Ahora, no siempre lo es...
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Bueno, vale, lo dicho, puede ser una muletilla.

Ahora, no siempre lo es...
Ahora, no lo creo.
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And now the end is near,
and so i face the final curtain.
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And now the end is near,
and so i face the final curtain.
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Pues eso, gracias a todos por vuestro "input"...
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