Spanish To English - Translation Please

[DebHop]

Any of our Spanish speeking friends out there?

I need an English word for "Curason" as it relates to a bag pattern I'm working on.

I've tried Google Translate but I get nothing.

I thought maybe it was a trademark name like 'Velcro'.

This is the pattern shape and label:

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Deb

[Sylvia]

Did you spell it correctly in google? Because the spelling on the picture is completely different than your spelling in the post.

[Havamal]

I did a bit of searching and all I can find is a reference to Star Wars and that Cuarson is a sur name...

[DebHop]

LOL! me too. I'm a little perplexed.

[TwinOaks]

It's most likely a name that plays on the sound of "curación"......literally 'the healing'

Curar is the verb that is to cure, heal, etc. And "they are" is 'son' .....and example: Son divertidos = are fun , with a translator...but 'SON, is the present tense of 'SER' - (to be) for they/them.....so while 'they' isn't indicated with a word, the verb tense of "son" means 'they are'. So, 'son divertidos' means "they are fun".

I suspect it's a trade name given to a design much like Tucker Gun Leather called one of his holsters "The Answer".

In this case, it's probably meant to say that all the problems of purse design have been fixed in that design.....and in this case (working from the quick lesson above) it sounds like Yoda is describing the purse......"Fixed, they are."............in a nut shell, the perfect purse.

A proper translation would be "son curado"...but that just sounds pompous.

Besides, I'm speculating, and using some WAY rusty skills....Heck, it could even be a Spanish colloquialism on a word from another language...like Portuguese. (don't bother, I checked)

Or it's just a name chosen for the design....

If you think about it, there's not much sense that goes into marketing names. For example, some fool named a perfume "Chanel 5".....around my parts, that's just the CBS station. But come to think of it.....sometimes they stink, too, so maybe it is a valid name...

[DebHop]

Mike,

I appreciate the language lesson. So, this could be a revision to the pattern maybe and it seems apparent this is pocket placement.

So I'm comfortable that I'm not missing some special material needed to assemble the perfect purse.

Marketing names are often nebulous, there is a chrome polish called "Pig Spit". I wonder what our non-english speeking friends would think to see that on my list of recommended products?

Thank ya much,

Deb

[TwinOaks]

There's also quite a bit of cultural idiosyncrasies coming into play. In the '70s Chevy introduced a car model that sold well here, but sold NONE in Mexico. It was called the "Nova".....but translated, that's Spanish for "Won't Go".

[DebHop]

I did not know that.

[TwinOaks]

Another one that is pretty amazing....

Gerber foods (Gerber baby food) decided to help with a food shortage in India (this was around the '70s). So, delivered LOTS of babyfood. Absolutely none of it was used and the Indian relief agencies wouldn't distribute it. As it turns out, the good people at Gerber didn't do their homework. At that time, it was very common for the food containers used in India to have a picture of what type of food was in the jar. Gerber just sent over a large shipment of what is sold here.....little jars with the cute baby on the label

The pretty much just dumped the rest of that shipment and sent another shipment that had pictures of carrots, taters, beans, etc., on the labels which were gratefully received.

[DebHop]

Oh yes, I've been burned by not doing my 'culture' homework before. I once furnished a meal for my IT team to celebrate a successful project implementation. Half of my staff was from India. I had it catered by Daves Bar-B-Que. Bad Idea!

They ate the potato salad and buns.

Lesson learned - half my team was vegeterian.