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November 2, 2007 4:44 PM

In Mexico, would one use the vernacular term "email" or the direct translation "correo electronico"?
posted by luriete to writing & language (5 comments total)

(or, more specifically, in print media produced in California and marketed to people speaking Spanish, principally Latin American immigrants)
posted by luriete at 4:44 PM on November 2, 2007

correo electronico.

example.
posted by vacapinta at 4:52 PM on November 2, 2007

i'd use correo electronico in any official or business setting. you can probably get away with email with younger folks, though.
posted by thinkingwoman at 9:35 PM on November 2, 2007

thanks!
posted by luriete at 11:50 PM on November 2, 2007

Los dos, pero yo ocupo "e-mail"; es muyy comun.
posted by mynameismandab at 8:30 PM on November 6, 2007