Compromiso

Compromiso
 

I have three words translated into "compromiso": compromise, deal and pledge.

Are all of them interchangeable in some context?

Thanks. :)

Compromiso and compromise and false congnates

Compromise=comprometer

pact, commitment, agreement=compromiso

I can't think of any context where any of these three are interchangeable. :thinking: I thought the usual translation is commitment = pledge, obligation etc.

Commitment also means compromiso.

I have understood that deal means trato.
and compromise means compromiso for the ambit loving.

I don't what opine the other users.

Wouldn't be "agreement" a good synonym for all of them, then? :thinking:

Yes agreement is a synonymn for all of them if you see a promise as an agreement.
Unlike comprimiso in Spanish, compromise and commitment have very different meanings in English. Comprimise means giving up something you love in order to conform.
Example: John loves dogs but his girlfriend Mary is allergic. For that reason he compromised and gave his dog away when he married Mary. Mary hates tobacco smoke, but loves John who smokes and can't stop. For that reason she compromised and lets him smoke.

The chancellor is commited to end corruption by 2012. There will be no comprimise ( he says)

Yes, they are. However, usage is different from what the dictionaries state.

En ciertos contextos sí, pero un "commitment" por ejemplo no tiene por qué ser un "agreement" (y tampoco un compromiso tiene por qué ser un acuerdo).

¿No?

¿Por ejemplo?

When deciding to buy the dog, he made a commitment to feed it and look after it for the rest of its life.

This commitment is not an agreement. :)

How so?

In Spanish I would understand it as making an agreement with myself, a promise.

Not in English. An agreement is something made with another person, normally with a penalty if you don't keep it.

@Hernán: ¿Acuerdo con uno mismo? :thinking:
No me extraña, porque soy algo esquizofrénica, pero creo que a las personas normales les sonará raro. ;)
Lo cierto es que la acepción común de "acuerdo" implica a dos o más personas. :)

Nobody understands "ideas afines", I guess. :->

Ideas afines
 

Nice conversation - I guess if there is nobody else involved in the
decision to commit, then it's a matter for your own internal dialog
to sort out.

Probably involves compromise, as with any interaction. There are
still two sides to the issue...?

So we go to post #1? :)