The English sentence isn't a question.


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That's right.
Corrected.
Thanks.


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5769285 - Estaré en casa sobre las dos y media.

'By', con significación temporal, puede traducirse al español de múltiples formas: 'en torno a', 'a eso de', 'alrededor de', 'sobre', 'para', 'hacia', etc.
'Sobre las dos y media' expresa una indicación temporal abierta, imprecisa; el hecho puede tener lugar antes o después de la hora indicada sin que quede claro cuándo.
'Para las dos y media' puede responder a dos interpretaciones distintas: una abierta, idéntica a la de 'sobre'; y otra más restrictiva, señalando una meta temporal límite: 'hasta las dos y media', 'antes de las dos y media'. La interpretación elegida dependerá del contexto.
También en inglés se mantiene actualmente esta doble interpretación para 'by' [CCAE]: 'He would fly home and make it to bed by 2 a.m. or so.' ; 'Jack promised that he'd call by 2 p.m. ' (=más o menos) / 'Bikes must be returned by 2 a.m. or a $100 late fee will be charged.' (=como muy tarde).
Por esta razón he traducido las oraciones con 'by' unas veces como una meta temporal y otras como una aproximación temporal.


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5769240 — Sé paciente.

'Compláceme' puede ser una traducción de 'humor me'.
Creo que 'humor me' puede dar diversas traducciones al español. Una de ellas denota una apelación a la indulgencia de la persona con la que se habla [CCAE]: 'Humor me, Andrew. Pretend I'm as old as I look.'; 'Humor me a moment.'; 'Humor me, Tom, I'm new here.' (= sea paciente conmigo, permítame, perdóneme).

No sé yo. No me termina de cuadrar. «Compláceme», «Hazlo por mí.» o «Hazme el favor.» suenan mejor. Es verdad que la frase original tiene un toque de clase y jugueteo verbal, pero depende mucho del contexto.

Creo que en castellano se podrían sustituir por un «Venga[, vamos].» o un «Vamos[, hombre].» o algo por el estilo.

Es complicado. Si tuviera que traducir una frase de este estilo la reescribiría del todo.

The speaker eventually decides on the actual intended meaning, but, as explained earlier, depending on the context, other usages have been extensively documented. Thus, they are feasible and utilized by speakers of English, too.

A few examples follow:
-British National Corpus (BYU-BNC)
71-CGD-W_non_ac_soc_science: 'By 2 p.m. that day she was in a very anxious state ...'
55-ASR-W_non_ac_nat_science: 'By 3 p.m., the explosions were so loud that they were audible 240 kilometres away; by 5 p.m. they were so stupendous that the sound was carrying all over Java.'
2-K1G-W_news_script : 'The clockwork life of Karen Rake is ticking by faster than ever before. Up at 5 a.m., swimming by 6 a.m., breakfast at 8 a.m., school at 9 a.m.'

-Corpus of Contemporary American English (CCAE)
17-2015-NEWS Pittsburgh : 'State police said Parkway East and Parkway West traffic was moving again by 11 a.m.'
27-2014-NEWS WashPost : 'By 11 a.m., when an hour-long tour in Spanish was to begin, perhaps a dozen people had shown up.'
69-2011-SPOK CBS_Early : 'By 11 AM, as I made my way to Gate-2, the planes were being canceled by the hundreds.'


In any case, whenever doubt arises,I have no objection whatsoever, to any of my sentences being linked, relinked or even deleted by any corpus administrator who so deems, without asking for my previous approval. This should facilitate the decision process.


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But, do all the sample sentences with 'by' I included in my previous comments maintain that 'deadline' connotation?


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There's a mess in the translations.
I started to unlink some of them, but now I wonder why the translations are even more different than could be expected.

It's because arh changed some of his sentences to a period. Then Horus just merged them.

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edited by arh, 2 hours ago

There won't be any harm done, if I go on unlinking the mismatches?
Well, of course the comments are under the wrong sentence now.

Of course no, go ahead.

done

Nice job, thanks.

@arh La próxima vez, por favor, en vez de cambiar la frase a un punto final, deje un comentario abajo que diga "Delete please".