camino cortado
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"Camino Cortado" seen on a red road sign in Chile at the end of a sand road which was badly damaged in places - does this translate as "short cut" or "road damaged" ?
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updated Nov 24, 2010
posted by 77d62e4571
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In this context, it probably means "road cut".
camino - road, path, lane, way cortado - (in this context) short, interrupted, broke
updated Nov 24, 2010
posted by 0066c384
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for me, camino cortado means road closed, it´s damaged and you have to take a detour.
I thought road cut was a way excavated in the rocks, or the side of a mountain
road cut
updated Nov 24, 2010
posted by mediterrunio
That is true, in English, as in your picture of a road cut. - pesta, Nov 24, 2010
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Atajo is the word I usually see for shortcut. However, cortar camino and camino corto are also in our dictionary.
updated Nov 24, 2010
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posted by 0074b507
