por estar pendiente de mí
English translation: for your attention/attentiveness
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| 03:11 Mar 24, 2018 |
| Spanish to English translations [PRO] International Org/Dev/Coop / sponsored children\'s letters | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: bcsantos Gibraltar Local time: 15:37 | ||||||
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3 mins confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1for keeping me in mind Explanation: One option |
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11 hrs confidence:
for your attention/attentiveness Explanation: the action of assiduously attending to the comfort or wishes of others; politeness or courtesy: "this sight has maintained its top grading due to the attentiveness of the staff" · "Mary was particularly touched by Georgina's attentiveness to her during her recovery" |
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12 hrs confidence:
| Le agradezco por el apoyo y gracias por estar pendiente de mí. I appreciate your support and [I] am grateful for your thoughtful gesture. Explanation: The Spanish here strikes me as peculiar in not mentioning the gift *prior to* expressing gratitude. Be that as it may, expressing thanks for “thinking of me” seems a slight of the recipient of the letter (kind of the equivalent of a sarcastic “gee thanks”). I think we have to assume that this was not the attitude of the writer, and therefore it would seem prudent to avoid such a connotation in the translation. |
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20 hrs confidence:
for caring about me / for caring for me Explanation: Just a minor nuance; I would say that estar pendiente de mí in this case is a very polite way to say something more than just thank you for thinking of me (pensar en mí) and just something less than thank you for taking care of me (cuidarme); the meaning of the original is somewhere between those. And so I would read it as thank you for caring for me (and I would probably choose caring for me in this particular case instead of caring about me, precisely to allow for something more than just "thinking" on the reader's side although I feel caring about sounds just a little bit more accurate and natural within the context). I am grateful for/appreciate your support; thank you for caring about/for me. |
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4 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +4
peer agreement (net): +4for thinking about me Explanation: I would say in this context -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 6 mins (2018-03-24 03:17:48 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- warm and catches the meaning -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 11 mins (2018-03-24 03:23:13 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- makes the recipient feel good and also covers the intention -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 15 mins (2018-03-24 03:26:43 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- basically that's what we would say in English -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 19 mins (2018-03-24 03:31:02 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- maybe "supporting me on this" -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 20 mins (2018-03-24 03:31:53 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- need a lot more context to be sure... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 23 hrs (2018-03-25 02:50:15 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "thinking about me" would be fine as an answer by a child -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 day 19 hrs (2018-03-25 23:03:39 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- we can be flexible here as it's about how a child would word it |
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