Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
...al por mayor... sino a la medida
English translation:
...one size fits all ... custom/taylor made
Spanish term
Spain
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Native in: Spanish
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...al por mayor... sino a la medida
"Todos estos puntos tienen que ser trabajados con “cariño”, entendiendo como tal el hecho de que no vamos a fabricar un software al por-mayor, sino una herramienta a la medida.
Estoy en el siguiente punto:
"We need to work on these points with “loving care”, meaning by that that we are not planning to make a ready-made software but a tool made to measure"
Sep 9, 2008 21:45: Lydia De Jorge changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/119225">Eugenio Llorente's</a> old entry - "...al por mayor... sino a la medida"" to ""...one size fits all ... custom/taylor made""
Proposed translations
United States
Don't just say it, say it right!
Native in: Spanish 
, English
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, English, and 1 more.
...one size fits all ... custom/taylor made
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Note added at 6 hrs (2008-09-09 21:45:31 GMT) Post-grading
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Glad I could help. Best of luck to you!
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Francesca Samuel
: "custom made" fits perfectly, Lydia!
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Gracias colega!
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Spain
Human translation for humans.
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: Spanish to English, Catalan to English, English to Spanish
..mass-market...personalised software
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Note added at 6 minutos (2008-09-09 15:44:48 GMT)
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I also like "made to measure", Eugenio :.)
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Note added at 7 minutos (2008-09-09 15:46:27 GMT)
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In fact, if you want to continue the metaphor, you could say "off the peg" / "tailor-made", but maybe that's going a bit far.
Accurate, natural and very hard-working
Native in: English , Spanish
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, French to English, and 3 more.
...wholesale... made-to-measure (see below)
customised (rather than designed) for the mass market
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Note added at 15 mins (2008-09-09 15:54:06 GMT)
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i.e. "these issues should be seriously addressed, i.e. our software should be....
in bulk...made to order
Mexico
Dual-Native English & Spanish Translator
Native in: English (Variants: British, UK, US, Canadian) , Spanish (Variants: Colombian, Uruguayan, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Argentine, Chilean, Venezuelan, Costa Rican, Mexican, Standard-Spain, US, Ecuadorian , Dominican, Latin American, Peruvian)
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish
mass-produced vs. custom-made
we are not planning to mass-produce software but rather to provide a custom-made tool
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