Here we go!
Juliana, I really liked your comments. I agree with you, "insurance money" stands for "dinheiro do seguro" and "insurance premium" stands for "prêmio do seguro".
I just have some doubt, does the expression "insurance prize" exist?
How will we discover that? Well, let's go to Google again.
Another point is that, you saw that at Cobuild, they only show you part of the corpus, until 40 lines, so it's difficult to state the frequency of the two expressions, so Google will help us with this matter too.
1 - Enter Google website.
2 - Search for "insurance money"
3 - Search for "insurance premium"
4 - Search for "insurance prize"
5 - Answer:
a) How many results do you have for each search? Comment some sentences in order to check what Juliana said according to Cobuild results.
b) Does the expression "insurance prize" exist? What's the meaning of it?
c) Which is the best translation for "insurance money" found in the article about New Orleans?
That's it.
I hope we will be very happy and healthy in 2008 and that we will learn a lot of new things.
See ya.
2 comments:
I've got 838,000 occurrences of "insurance money", 3,010,000 (!!!) of "insurance premium" and 4,490 of "insurance prize". This search confirms what we said about the expressions before: "insurance premium" is much more frequent than "insurance money". The surprising is that there exists the expression "insurance prize"!
Well, at google search "insurance money" seems to be used in ordinary life cases, like "He faked brain surgery to get insurance money". "Insurance premium", in turn, is used as the legal name for the money, like "An insurance premium paid currently provides coverage for losses that might arise many years in the future".
But "insurance prize" has a very special use at google search. It is like Juarez said: a realy prize. Here are some examples: "AILA recognises a person who has made a substantial contribution to the Insurance industry or to insurance law, with the award of the AILA Insurance prize"; "Halifax Home Insurance is offering new customers the chance to win £1,500 this holiday season. Anyone who signs up for Halifax Home Insurance online between December 1st 2007 and January 4th 2008 will be entered into a prize draw for the cash award".
So, after all these searches, I can conclude that the best translation for "insurance money" found in the article about New Orleans is "dinheiro do seguro", since it seems like an ordinary life use.
I agree with Juliana...
Resultados 1 - 10 de aproximadamente 14.700.000 para insurance money (0,20 segundos)
insurance money is focused on car, house and life insurance...and some results lead to how to claim that without a lawyer 0_0
Resultados 1 - 10 de aproximadamente 942.000 para insurance prize (0,20 segundos)
this one seems to be more PROMOTION oriented...
Resultados 1 - 10 de aproximadamente 4.210.000 para insurance premium (0,23 segundos)
LOOK AT THIS: insurance premium Definition
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insurance premium - definition of insurance premium - The periodic payment made on an insurance policy. also called premium.
I think that means the payment you do monthly - NOT THE ONE YOU TAKE IF YOU COVERED STUFF GETS MESSED UP...
Juliana said very nicely about the translation...I'm with her!
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