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    Default Trick or Treat?

    Now that I'm in a Halloween Mode, How do you translate Trick or Treat?

    Truco o Treta? any better suggestion?

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    Travesura o golosina?

    Me parece mejor! jejeje!! Igual veremos que opina la gente.

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    What about "trato o truco"?

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    Yo lo traduciría como regalo (treat) o castigo. Trambien podría ser "golosina o castigo", . Entiendo que la persona que no le regale a los niños una golosina recibirán un castigo (travesura)

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    I'm going with Hebe's "regalo o castigo". It rolls off the tongue so nicely!

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    In most of the movies I have seen, the phrase is translated as "dulce o truco", but sincerely, it doesn't have sense for me. May be "dulce o travesura" is better.

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    I like "dulce o travesura".

    Thank you all!

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    Default Trato o Truco

    Doy un voto por "trato o truco". En este tipo de traducción de frases, es muy importante mantener un cierto paralelismo con la rima del original. Si bien no siempre puede ser idéntico - obviamente - mantener algún tipo de rima es importante.

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