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Old September 21, 2009, 10:15 PM
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fósforo (masculine noun (el)) — match. Look up fósforo in the dictionary

Tráete los fósforos para que prendamos la fogata.
Bring the matches and we'll light the fire.
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Old September 21, 2009, 11:45 PM
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Susuna. Please you bring me the matches soon.

Also you can say Cerillos instead of Fosforos, at least here in Mexico is known it as Cerillos, at most not is used the word Fosforos for this place.
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Old September 22, 2009, 12:11 AM
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In Spain we say "cerillas" . Pueden ser normales (rascando con cualquier superficie se encienden) y de seguridad (necesitan un tipo de papel de lija especial). El fósforo suele ser la cabeza de la cerilla, ya que está compuesta de este material.
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¿Alguien en la vida cotidiana dice "fósforos"?

Es una palabra que yo sólo oigo en la televisión.
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¿Alguien en la vida cotidiana dice "fósforos"?

Es una palabra que yo sólo oigo en la televisión.
Sí, se usa fósforo la gente del caribe pero se entiende cerrillo/a tambien.
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Nosotros en chile los llamamos fósforos también.
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¿Alguien en la vida cotidiana dice "fósforos"?

Es una palabra que yo sólo oigo en la televisión.
La persona que hizo el diseño para los que tengo para emergencias. Creo que los haya comprado en Mercadona, pero no estoy seguro.
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I know this is offtopic, but when I got the email it looked strange.

It looked like this:

fósforo

masculine noun (el), match

Tráete los fósforos para que prendamos la fogata.
Bring the matches and we'll light the fire.


anyone else have it like that? It's no big deal but I don't know why it's like this
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Here we say "fósforos" too, one hundred porcent.
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Here we say "fósforos" too, one hundred percent.

un pequeño corrección
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I know this is offtopic, but when I got the email it looked strange.

It looked like this:

fósforo

masculine noun (el), match

Tráete los fósforos para que prendamos la fogata.
Bring the matches and we'll light the fire.


anyone else have it like that? It's no big deal but I don't know why it's like this
Are you using the David's program for accents? or did you change anything in your local settings for languages lately?

Something is not converting correctly between versions of windows or whatever...
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yes I am. I'm using the program for accents. I've had it for several days and only today it was weird
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yes I am. I'm using the program for accents. I've had it for several days and only today it was weird
How weird! Only today it has been working acting up...

Then, it must not be it.
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I know this is offtopic, but when I got the email it looked strange.

It looked like this:

fósforo

masculine noun (el), match

Tráete los fósforos para que prendamos la fogata.
Bring the matches and we'll light the fire.


anyone else have it like that? It's no big deal but I don't know why it's like this
Character encoding. The e-mail is encoded in UTF-8 and your client appears to be treating it as ISO-8859-1. Probably a bug in the server's mailer code.

Can you view full headers in the e-mail and see whether it has a "Content-Type:" header?
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There is a traditional tale called The little match girl (La vendedora de fósforos) that I love. Very sad, though.
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Hans Christian Andersen's classic... I used to cry a lot as a child when I read it. Here I've seen it translated as "La vendedora de cerillas" (even though in Mexico it's "cerillos", of course). Those must have been Spanish translations.
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Character encoding. The e-mail is encoded in UTF-8 and your client appears to be treating it as ISO-8859-1. Probably a bug in the server's mailer code.

Can you view full headers in the e-mail and see whether it has a "Content-Type:" header?
how do I view the full headers?
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how do I view the full headers?
I don't know because I don't know what you use to view your mail.
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