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This is a post that has been brought up as more valuable than a political one
Ways to learn mas espanol... slang... How you did it????.. translators you liked
Todays words are
chocho
This one is easy
Amistad
See you manana with a few more

The tilde above the n on some words is important.

año = year
ano = asshole

Imagine trying to learn English slang...pfft, that's tough for sure...



Cujo

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"Pain is the fuel that fans the flames of my pyre. A battle plan is only as good as the general carrying it out on the field. This is my war son, and I have the biggest bombs and the smallest conscience"...

Orange
How is the n pronounced different...???
Thankx

ano = ah-no
año = an-yo

Exactly..año the N is pronunced like it is in mañana....


Cujo

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"Pain is the fuel that fans the flames of my pyre. A battle plan is only as good as the general carrying it out on the field. This is my war son, and I have the biggest bombs and the smallest conscience"...

One problem there my friend. No such thing as a chocho! I hope. That might me a penis. But a "chocha". That be a "pu*sy" shortened from the origional "Panocha" to "chocha"!

Asi es!
It's like that!

cinquenta/fitty
ciao!

The essential difference 'twixt Spanish and English is that Spanish slang is Spanish words/phrases used differently i.e. "huevos" means eggs but also testicles; whereas in English we have a word adopted from one language used differently in another language + the many homonyms and other kind of wordplay inherent in a polyglot language like English. It's our power and our glory but makes for a mighty confusing language to learn and use properly C.f. the mis-usages on this Board by presumably native English speakers. Also feel free to invent new words (Shakespeare came up with >400--Goethe in German maybe 5--both equally skilled playwrights/poets speaking to the human condition).

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"A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind"--Dr. Johnson
"Amen, brother"-ED

Thanks brother Nhhank. This helps mucho. BTW, how many anos do you have? See I am learning already. Thanks for increasing my vocabulary, Brother Orange. Just like the info on La Oficina, you have come thru again.

And for a sentimental moment. I think back to all the anos I have seen, and I must say, there is a special ano. It is this ano, when I met my buddy Nhhank. You're the best. May you have many anos in your life.

In need of a Spanish typing keyboard,
Dean

PS I am casting my vote to you buddy as "Man of the Ano" award"

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my first wingman sent me this, how true

" most of the girls down here, lie as a self defense mechanism and to not have to face the truth, thinking most men couldn't accept them knowing the whole truth. Simpler, they may just want men to think they are as perfect as they want to appear to them, trying to hide what they consider to be the ugly truth about themselves. And I may be reading more into it than is there, but I do believe they consider the basis of the lies to be justified."

I've gone through 2, no, make that 3 boxes of hankies, weeping at the thought of Brother Dean consoling his,er, "special buddy" Brother NHhank slogging through the complexities of typing Spanish and getting it so, so wrong. Maybe this post from (who else?) Brother Orange from the days of XP can help:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10510

A little Googling can bring all parties concerned into the 21st Century...then again maybe not.

Heart-rending...truly. Or unruly. Whatever.
You expected me to be touched ...and I am. Right down there.

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"A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind"--Dr. Johnson
"Amen, brother"-ED

So I should have said esta ano. Sorry, Nh, didn't mean to leave the "esta" out. Thanks, Jazz, I'm a quick learner.

Dean

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my first wingman sent me this, how true

" most of the girls down here, lie as a self defense mechanism and to not have to face the truth, thinking most men couldn't accept them knowing the whole truth. Simpler, they may just want men to think they are as perfect as they want to appear to them, trying to hide what they consider to be the ugly truth about themselves. And I may be reading more into it than is there, but I do believe they consider the basis of the lies to be justified."

Can somebody help me this alt thing? I keep typing it and all that keeps coming up is altn or alta. It's driving me crazy.

Dean

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my first wingman sent me this, how true

" most of the girls down here, lie as a self defense mechanism and to not have to face the truth, thinking most men couldn't accept them knowing the whole truth. Simpler, they may just want men to think they are as perfect as they want to appear to them, trying to hide what they consider to be the ugly truth about themselves. And I may be reading more into it than is there, but I do believe they consider the basis of the lies to be justified."

I hope this helps you use CR Spanish: Go to Control Panel in Vista and keep looking 'til you find Spanish (Costa Rica). If you need more help I'll PM you to the exact steps. Or try such as Brother Orange (he was such a help the first time).

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"A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind"--Dr. Johnson
"Amen, brother"-ED

Here are todays words... Before this ends up in Smack Talk

a traves........................ across

despues....................after

impuesto de salida...... exit tax

Smack Talk? Not here my friend. This is all good if we do it right!

check it!

despues- after

impuesto de salida- would that be the infamous exit tax?

We need your words to be in english and spanish to really help the group learn and to be able to translate/ transduciar?

cinquenta