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Header: Tips for Coping with a Finicky Eater

Spanish translation: Consejos prácticos para lidiar con un niño melindroso con la comida

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English term or phrase:Tips for Coping with a Finicky Eater
Spanish translation:Consejos prácticos para lidiar con un niño melindroso con la comida
Entered by: Hardy Moreno

03:43 Sep 20, 2002
English to Spanish translations [PRO]
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English term or phrase: Header: Tips for Coping with a Finicky Eater
I need help with this header:
Tips for Coping with a Finicky Eater

I was thinking of something like:

C—mo contender con un ni–o melindroso (it is speaking of finicky children, by the way)
Hardy Moreno
Local time: 22:26
Consejos prácticos....
Explanation:
Consejos prácticos para lidiar con un niòo melindroso con la comida

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Note added at 2002-09-21 13:07:42 (GMT)
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Typo: niÒo

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Note added at 2002-09-21 13:11:11 (GMT)
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Pues el bendito ordenador ha decidido insertar una \'o\' con acento y no una \'n\' con el tilde.

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Note added at 2002-09-24 19:07:48 (GMT) Post-grading
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Gracias, Hardy
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IlonaT
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:26
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Summary of answers provided
5 +3Sugerencias para lidiar con un comensal melindroso / quisquilloso...
Ramón Solá
4 +1Como arreglarselas con un niño melidroso
aivars
5Sugerencias para lidiar con un comedor quisquilloso (o fastidioso)
María Eugenia Wachtendorff
5cómo bregar con el melindroso
Herman Vilella
5Consejos prácticos....
IlonaT


  

Answers


6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Como arreglarselas con un niño melidroso


Explanation:
Si es que quieres poner melindroso,
yo pondría : caprichoso con la comida

aivars
Argentina
Local time: 00:26
Native speaker of: Spanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Egmont
7 hrs
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57 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Sugerencias para lidiar con un comensal melindroso / quisquilloso...


Explanation:
HTH...

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Note added at 2002-09-20 04:42:42 (GMT)
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Se me había escapado que se trataba de un niño. Entonces: ...con un niño melindroso / quisquilloso con la comida...
o: con un niño melindroso / quisquilloso para comer...

Ramón Solá
Local time: 22:26
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Egmont
6 hrs
  -> ¡Gracias, albertov!
agree  Amancio Iglesias: quisquilloso me parece más apropiado
7 hrs
  -> ¡Gracias, Amancio!
agree  María Eugenia Wachtendorff: Es que el niño al que le tratas de dar de comer en la cocina no es un "comensal"
21 hrs
  -> Tines toda la razón... ¡Gracias, María!
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Sugerencias para lidiar con un comedor quisquilloso (o fastidioso)


Explanation:
Aunque en Chile, tratándose de un niño, diríamos "mañoso" si es malo para comer... pero finicky también significa fussy, y esto último podría interpretarse como compulsivo... con más contexto, HTH.

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PERDÓN!! NO LEÍ BIEN TU PREGUNTA. POR FAVOR, OLVIDA LO DE COMPULSIVO (CRASO Y PROFUNDO ERROR MÍO!!!)

María Eugenia Wachtendorff
Chile
Local time: 23:26
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 60

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  MARCELA RUIZ: En Arg. "comedor" es la habitacion de la casa donde se come, la persona es un "comensal".
7 hrs
  -> En Chile también, pero fíjate que además, tenemos comedores compulsivos, comedores de uñas, comedores de golosinas y malos comedores (entre otros), y todos estos son personas!
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
cómo bregar con el melindroso


Explanation:
popular language - melindroso applies to eaters unless exceptionally (and very rarely) stated otherwise

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Note added at 2002-09-20 12:54:22 (GMT)
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\"popular\" but by no means crass, gross or vulgar (nor \"palabrotero\").

Herman Vilella
Local time: 05:26
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Consejos prácticos....


Explanation:
Consejos prácticos para lidiar con un niòo melindroso con la comida

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Note added at 2002-09-21 13:07:42 (GMT)
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Typo: niÒo

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Note added at 2002-09-21 13:11:11 (GMT)
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Pues el bendito ordenador ha decidido insertar una \'o\' con acento y no una \'n\' con el tilde.

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Note added at 2002-09-24 19:07:48 (GMT) Post-grading
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Gracias, Hardy

IlonaT
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:26
PRO pts in category: 4
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