On Monday 03 January 2011 15:38:51 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 03/01/11 15:29, Camaleón wrote: > > Not sure if "picky" is the correct term. I wanted to use an adjective to > > designate people who is... (let me search for a synonym) "punctilious/ > > touchy"? In Spanish that is "quisquilloso". > > According to Google Translate > http://translate.google.com/#auto|en|quisquilloso: > 1. fussy > 2. touchy > 3. pernickety > 4. petty > 5. cantankerous > 6. squeamish > 7. persnickety > 8. pettifogging > 9. spiky > > I'd go with touchy. I just wish my Spanish was as good as your English! > > -- > Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org > Buckinghamshire, England |
+1 As always someone else can express my thoughts better than I can. Camaleón's English is so good that I often forget that she is not English. But come to think of it, perhaps cantankerous is even better in this case! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201101031631.02028.lisi.re...@gmail.com
