Serie (de luces)

[DailyWord]

This is a discussion thread for the Daily Spanish Word for December 15, 2009

serie (de luces) (feminine noun (la)) — Christmas lights, string of lights. Look up serie (de luces) in the dictionary

Me tomó tres horas ponerle la serie al árbol y cuando la conecté, la mitad no prendía.
It took me three hours to put the lights on the tree and when I plugged them in, half of them didn't light up.

[laepelba]

So what would be the plural of this? "Series de luces"?

[irmamar]

¿Serie de luces" ¿Se dice en algún sitio? Nosotros decimos "luces navideñas" o "luces de navidad". Sí, ya sé que son en serie y que si se funde una bombilla (en las antiguas) tienes que cambiarla porque no funcionan las demás. Pero no sé si se dice "serie de luces"



Sí, el plural de "serie" es "series"

[hermit]

Todas las frases para mí son familiares.

Siempre traduzco "serie de luces" al inglés como "string of lights".

Es que todos mis profesores eran de distintas partes del mundo hispanico,
Cuba, Mejico, Madrid, Barcelona, etc.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

@Lou Ann: Correct.

[irmamar]

Originally Posted by hermit

Todas las frases para mí son familiares.

Siempre traduzco "serie de luces" al inglés como "string of lights".

Es que todos mis profesores eran de distintas partes del mundo hispanico,
Cuba, Mejico, Madrid, Barcelona, etc.

In this case, I'd say "tira de luces". Here is commoner than "serie".

[chileno]

Originally Posted by irmamar

In this case, I'd say "tira de luces". Here is commoner than "serie".

more common...

En Chile las llamamos "luces de Pascua o de Navidad"

[pjt33]

Originally Posted by chileno

more common...

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1920

[CrOtALiTo]

Here I write another example.

I tried to fix my computer and when I turn to turn on the computer I can see that the computer I haven't been plugged to the electricity.

It was really sucks.

Irmamar, here in Mexico the ideal word is Serial de luces.

I don't know as really it's named in another places.

[irmamar]

Originally Posted by chileno

more common...

En Chile las llamamos "luces de Pascua o de Navidad"

I've just studied that I can say both commoner or more common. Usually I say 'more common', but when I was writing my sentence, I realized that I had already written 'common' and so I just added '-er'

[chileno]

Originally Posted by pjt33

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1920

Which one is correct, though?

And thanks for the link.

Originally Posted by irmamar

I've just studied that I can say both commoner or more common. Usually I say 'more common', but when I was writing my sentence, I realized that I had already written 'common' and so I just added '-er'

Floja.

[irmamar]

Originally Posted by chileno

Floja.

¿Por qué me llamas floja? Por cierto, ¿qué es floja? ¿Vaga?

[chileno]

Originally Posted by irmamar

¿Por qué me llamas floja? Por cierto, ¿qué es floja? ¿Vaga?

Correcto, tercera acepción en el RAE.

[irmamar]

Originally Posted by chileno

Correcto, tercera acepción en el RAE.

[pjt33]

Originally Posted by chileno

Which one is correct, though?

Both.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by pjt33

Both.

In BrE, right?

[pjt33]

Originally Posted by chileno

In BrE, right?

And AmE. COCA gives 225 instances of "commoner" (to 2319 of "more common").

[chileno]

Originally Posted by pjt33

And AmE. COCA gives 225 instances of "commoner" (to 2319 of "more common").

Ah, see?

When I used it, or the few times I tried to use it in the beginning I was corrected to "more common".

And then again http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commoner

Which reinforces my usage.

[irmamar]

The fourth entry is "common", adjective.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by irmamar

The fourth entry is "common", adjective.

I saw it.

At that time I was "corrected" a couple of times and I desisted in using it like that.