Donde.
Esta.
La biblioteca.Me llamo T-Bone, La araña discoteca.
Mi aerodeslizador está lleno de anguilas.
Sacapuntas
He must have been very embarazado about that.
Yes, he was Sonic the Hedgehog.
Thought that was more shadow
I think the friend is a woman, that entered the “Masculino” bathroom.
I thought so too but if you reread the post, the friend is referred to as “he”
Oh yeah, that’s me skipping the content inside parenthesis again.
That only works in math
No, then you read that first.
Awww, he’s such an abuela.
Quite the Papi churro.
My step son memorized a single sentence in Spanish, which he would say with good pronunciation and a lot of confidence: “tengo un gato en pantalones,” which means, “I have a cat in my pants.”
“I have a cat in pants”
¿Tiene un Gato que usa los pantones?
I take it your step son watched Blue Streak?
Either that or just grew up when that cat in my pants thing was a meme.
I remember in high school maybe jr high it being a thing that people just said without much context. I didn’t know it was from Blue Streak until … Maybe now?
My punk band in the 90s write and recorded an entire song that was named that lol. It had other phrases such as “you like to bite your pillow” and classics such as “you are the fucker of mother’s”
Wish I still had that.
“you like to bite your pillow”
That’s a common slur/insult for gay men in Colombia.
Oh I know, that’s why it was in there.
You have a “cat” in your pants, you like to bite pillows, you fuck your mom…
We were not that enlightened in the 90s I’m afraid but it was all in good fun lol.
What’s the correct interpretation for cat in pants?
In our 16 year old dumb brains we equated it to “you’re a pussy”
The only coherent sentence I remember from French class is “Je parle un peu de Français, mais ceci n’est pas tres bein” which means “I speak a little French, but it’s not very good”
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I wouldn’t call it coherent, but it self referentially gets the point across, which is the idea I suppose.
Not quite, it would be “,but this there is not very good”
I did the same thing with the phrase “No tengo pantalones, pero tengo chicle” or “I don’t have pants, but I have gum.”
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¿Soy un baño?
Lo siento, no habla español.
Ok so I haven’t used much Spanish since middle school but…
¿Esto es un baño?
Lo siento, no hablo español.
… Are those the correct forms?
“¿Esto es un baño?” Would be “Is this a bathroom?” If you were pointing at the door I think any spanish speaker would understand. Though I would use “¿Aque es el baño?” Which would be closer to “Is this the bathroom?”
If you weren’t pointing at a door and want to ask where the bathroom is it’d be “¿Dónde está el baño?” Translation: “Where is the bathroom?”. Other options are
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“¿Me enseñas dónde está el bano?” = Can you show me where the bathroom is?
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“¿Puedo usar tu baño?”= Can I use your bathroom?
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"¿Tienen un baño que puedo usar?= Do you have a bathroom I could use? Or just “¿Tienen un baño?”= Do you have a bathroom.
“Lo siento no habló español” is “I’m sorry I don’t speak Spanish.” Alternatives:
- “Lo siento no
hablóhablo mucho español.” = I’m sorry I dont speak much spanish. - “Lo siento no sé mucho español.” = I’m sorry I don’t know a lot of spanish.
- “Lo siento nomas sé poquito español.” = I’m sorry I only know a little spanish.
- “Lo siento nomas puedo hablar poquito español.” = I’m sorry I can only speak a little spanish.
Either sentence could be started with a form of “disculpa”. But honestly my thumbs are getting tired of typing so I’m just going to leave it there.
One tiny correction: Lo siento, no hablo mucho español = I’m sorry, I don’t speak much spanish. Lo siento, no habló mucho español = I am sorry, he didn’t speak much spanish
Just to make it the clear to other readers were the difference is:
Lo siento, no hablo mucho español
Lo siento, no habló mucho español
Those darn squiggles will get me in trouble one day I swear. I almost never write in spanish. My knowledge comes from listening to or speaking the language. Add in some dyslexia and yeah I mess up accent marks like crazy :/ Thanks for pointing it out. Main comment has now been edited.
No problem dude, I am the exact opposite and believe me, it definitely sucks xD I can write on a B2 university Level, but talking in Spanish? Nah, I am shitting myself the moment someone deviates from the exact conversation plan I laid out in advance.
And as long as you know the difference in pronunciation, the squiggles really don’t matter.
As I’m someone slowly and difficultly learning Spanish, for the soul purpose of visiting because, yo quiero comé muchos tacos de cabeza y bebe unas micheladas, I appreciate you. I’ll bet I missed a dozen accents.
Bebe is drinks. beber is to drink. I want to drink. Yo quiero beber. (or tomar) synonyms.
Appreciate the correction. All the conjugations are hardest thing for my brain to remember.
Hope you don’t mind some corrections. “Yo quiero come muchos tacos…” should be “Yo quiero comer muchos tacos…” similarly “…bebe unas micheladas…” should be “…beber unas micheladas…” I’m having difficulties explaining why exactly. It has to do with the conjugation of words.
Yeah accent marks are difficult for me too. I know they’re important and can change the entire meaning of words or sentences but wow I can not keep track of those things.
Si tu, o otros, quieren puedo contestar cuál quier pregunta que tienen. Bueno ayudo como puedo. El español que yo sé es más de la calle. Y no hago promesas que contestó 100% correcto. Pero hago lo que puedo.
translation
If you, or other people, want I can answer any questions you have. Well I’ll help with what I can. The spanish I know is more from the street (not sure how to translate that exactly. Maybe conversational, slang, or informal?). I make no promises that my answers will be 100% correct but I’ll do what I can.
By the way great reasons to travel. I would recommend adding tacos de trumpo to that list though. I forget what it’s called in other countries but its layers of meat on a big skewer that spins slowly near a fire. The cook then slices off the outer meat and puts it on the tortilla. Good stuff. But make sure it’s actually cooked on a skewer some places just season some meat and cook it on a stove. It’s not bad but not as good.
Disclaimer the spanish I know is Mexican spanish. I know very little about spanish from other places. Enough to understand what’s being said but not much more than that.
Those conjugations are the hardest thing for my brain to wrap around.
O otros : u otros. You use u when the next word starts an o sound.
yeah, i usually use disculpame in place of lo siento, but that’s personal preference
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Derailing because I’m randomly interested: does (Mexican) Spanish say “baño” for the room where you go to pee? Even if there’s nothing but a loo and a basin there? I know next to no Spanish but according to my general knowledge about languages “baño” looks more like somewhere you primarily take a bath rather than a place to pee. I thought that kind of euphemism was a very US thing.
If you asked someone in public in my native language for the “bathroom”, they would probably understand you need the loo but look at you funny.
Loo and basin are toliet and sink right? Either way “baño” can be a room with or without a bathtub/shower. People understand you based on context and tone. So “Necesito un baño.” Could mean either “I need to pee/poo.” Or “I need a shower/bath.” Depending where and how you say it. Obviously you’re not going to ask about taking a shower at a restaurant. Or maybe you are I’m not going to judge but you’ll be shown to a room with just a toliet and sink. Tone wise for shower think how you’d say you need a shower after a long hot day doing manual work.
The above is using informal, technically wrong, spanish. Because a shower is “duchar” though practically no one uses that word anymore. Some sentences would be:
“Me voy a ducharme.”“Me voy a duchar” or “Voy a ducharme” = I’m going to take a shower.- “Estaba duchañdome.” = I was taking a shower.
- “Necesito una duche.” = I need a shower.
My guess it’s easier to use baño for both shower and bath. Plus for people that know English it sounds to much like douche. Much like “Voy a molestar me hermano.” is a perfectly fine sentence meaning “I’m going to annoy my brother.” But to english ears it sounds to close to “I’m going to molest my brother.”
To end on a fun note. You can say “Voy agarrar un baño.” Which could be word for word translated as “I’m going to take a bathroom.” But of course you’re not going to take an entire room from someones house or business. Actual meaning is “I’m going to go take a shower.” Still the idea of someone just yoinking an entire room is pretty amusing. At least it is to me.
Me voy a ducharme.
Its “me voy a duchar” or “voy a ducharme” the “me” makes the verb apply to yourself, it can be used outside the verb or with it, but not in both
Yeah I misheard the person I asked and didn’t notice the rule break. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ edited to fix it.
yes, Mexican Spanish uses it that way. there’s pretty much no context in which you have to ask someone about where to take a shower, so the distinction is not very necessary. I’m pretty sure I’ve never once in my life asked where to take a bath or shower.
You use “ducha” if you need to specify that you want to take a bath.
I’m from San Diego, and we always called it baño here.
Spanish say “baño” for the room where you go to pee? Even if there’s nothing but a loo and a basin there?
Almost every language do that. English says bathroom, even if they’re not showers on them.
English says bathroom even if they’re not showers on them
That would be a toilet.
I know English does, but e.g. German doesn’t, that’s why I’m interested. A “Badezimmer” (literally “bathroom” or “bathing room”) is very much a room in private homes (or hotel rooms) where you take a shower or a bath. That’s usually also where the
lootoilet is, for convenience reasons. A communal / public room with the single purpose of using the toilet (like in a shop) is “the toilet(s)”, one with the purpose of taking a shower (like at a gym) is “the shower(s)”. (This probably says something about Germans in general)And now I’m waiting for some compatriot to rip me a new one because in their dialect it’s perfectly normal to look for the “Badezimmer” at Kaufhof and wtf am I talking about.
I drove into Baja with a few friends decades ago. A girl that was with us kept saying “OCHO!” to people. She’d buy something, the shop person would give her change, and she’d smile real cute and confidently say,“OCHO!” After 3-4 times, and a corresponding number of confused looks in response, I asked her why she kept saying that. She thought it meant “Thank you!” We all laughed and got on with our trip.
Would be interesting to see how many tourists it would take to gaslight native language speakers they don’t speak their onw language
This is America, and we speak English.
It really shows with how many of our words were borrowed from indigenous languages.
I’m not from the US. Which words did y’all borrow?
Practically none, except for place-names.
That’s the joke.
One, we speak English, the language of our colonizer.
Two, we displaced and destroyed countless indigenous languages.
Three, we (not all of us and not me personally…but certain people) get upset when people speak Spanish or any language other than English here. Spanish hate is particularly ironic in Texas since that used to be Mexico and a Spanish colony before that (and indigenous, before that).
Four, our glorious leader recently signed an executive order specifying English as our official language.
Peggy Hill?
I quoted her saying “muchos importante” in front of someone who natively spoke Spanish and they corrected me saying “muy” and I was too high to explain that I was quoting a character from a cartoon who spoke bad Spanish but taught as a subst…. Aaaaaaa I hate this memory I felt so dumb
it’s okay, i think that is cute
I wish I could have explained. My partner found it HILARIOUS that I was flustered.
Puedo comer vidrio, no me hace daño.
