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Record 1 2014-06-17

English

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  • General Vocabulary
OBS

The plain English alternative to "whereas" is "as," according to Robert C. Dick, in Legal Drafting in Plain Language, Third ed., p. 146.

French

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Spanish

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  • Vocabulario general
CONT

"Las predicciones aún no son muy de fiar por cuanto se trata de modelos numéricos".

OBS

por cuanto: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, explica que "por cuanto", expresión que tiene valor causal y equivale a "porque", no va seguida de la conjunción que, según se señala en el Diccionario panhispánico de dudas.

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