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English translation: stop-and-go...stop n' go...

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Portuguese term or phrase:anda e para
English translation:stop-and-go...stop n' go...
Entered by: airmailrpl

23:12 Aug 25, 2012
    The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2012-08-29 19:54:08 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)


Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Advertising / Public Relations / midias sociais - ferramen
Portuguese term or phrase: anda e para
Em meados do século XX houve uma escolha dos governantes em privilegiar as estradas como o principal elo de integração nacional.
São 41 milhões de automóveis, 2,3 milhões de caminhões e 16 milhões de motocicletas.
É um automóvel para cada 5 brasileiros.
Ou seja, talvez precise apertar um pouco, mas dá para colocar toda nossa população de mais de 190 milhões de pessoas dentro de nossos carros.
Nossa relação vai além do anda-e-para dos inevitáveis engarrafamentos.
Lilian Magalhães
Brazil
Local time: 06:43
stop-and-go...stop n' go
Explanation:
anda e para => stop-and-go...stop n' go

TRAFFIC WAVE EXPERIMENTS
amasci.com/amateur/traffic/trafexp.html
My single tiny car had erased miles and miles of stop-and-go traffic. Just one single "lubricant atom" had a profound effect on the turbulent particle flow within the ...

HowStuffWorks "Regenerative Braking... The Stop n' Go Money Saver"
auto.howstuffworks.com/.../mgm-108-regenerative-braking.ht...
For decades we have always heard that stop n' go traffic was not only bad for our pocketbooks, but as you'll see on Mean Green Machines, it's also hard on the ...

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Note added at 18 hrs (2012-08-26 17:29:55 GMT)
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"stop-and-go"
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"stop n' go"
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airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 06:43
Grading comment
thanks
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +4stop-and-go...stop n' go
airmailrpl
4 +2stop-start
suesimons
4 +1stop-go
Mark Robertson


Discussion entries: 1





  

Answers


1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
stop-go


Explanation:
HIH

Mark Robertson
Local time: 10:43
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marlene Curtis
20 mins
  -> Thanks Marlene
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
stop-start


Explanation:
The usual expression.

suesimons
Local time: 10:43
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Georgia Morg (X)
1 hr
  -> Tks, Georgia
agree  John Copestake (X): Usage example: Such behaviour leads to the stop-start traffic jams which infuriate motorists. Source Newspaper Article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8011029/Aggr...
1 day 6 hrs
  -> Tks, John
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +4
stop-and-go...stop n' go


Explanation:
anda e para => stop-and-go...stop n' go

TRAFFIC WAVE EXPERIMENTS
amasci.com/amateur/traffic/trafexp.html
My single tiny car had erased miles and miles of stop-and-go traffic. Just one single "lubricant atom" had a profound effect on the turbulent particle flow within the ...

HowStuffWorks "Regenerative Braking... The Stop n' Go Money Saver"
auto.howstuffworks.com/.../mgm-108-regenerative-braking.ht...
For decades we have always heard that stop n' go traffic was not only bad for our pocketbooks, but as you'll see on Mean Green Machines, it's also hard on the ...

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Note added at 18 hrs (2012-08-26 17:29:55 GMT)
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"stop-and-go"
About 5,780,000 results

"stop n' go"
About 1,010,000 results

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 06:43
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 16
Grading comment
thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Sheryle Oliver: stop-and-go
26 mins
  -> agradeço
agree  T o b i a s
9 hrs
  -> agradeço
agree  Verginia Ophof
16 hrs
  -> agradeço
agree  djpacheco
18 hrs
  -> agradeço
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