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Great language, better than English unless your talking about a machine.

I asked a Mexican student once about her favorite word in English: Balloon. 

Sometimes the most mundane sentence in English comes out beautifully in Spanish:  Do you want some grapes?  Quieres unas uvas?

 

Some of my favorites: amortiguadores, semáforo, chicharrones, cigarillos, bocinas, tortillera, hojalateria, antropólogo, puré de papas.  You?

 

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12 minutes ago, Travis said:

"Spinach" sounds like gutteral vomit, "Espinaca" almost like a love song.

:D

I like the ito's and sito's too.  My fav is, adiosito.  I also like how they put el's and la's in front of a person's name:  No he visto la Patty hoy.

Did you know Usted means, your grace?  Can it get any more formal?  

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2 hours ago, RVGRINGO said:

Usted is the formal form of “You“ in the singular. Ustedes is the plural form.

Señor is “Sir“, while Señora is “Madam“.

Wow, I learn something every day!  

You're not going to find the answer on Wiki.

So in San Jose CR I met a girl doing her PhD thesis on Castilian Spanish, origin and distribution.  She told me that, so it's correct.  Unless you know more than her.  See ^ origin.

And in Costa Rica, and I think Uruguay, they use vos in place of tu.  Tu is for dogs and cats.  And they use os in place of ser/estar romantically.  Vos os la chica mas linda del pueblo.

In CR Macho means Gringo.

Mexico: No te reconoci'  I didn't recognise you.  Barbarians. :D

Costa Rica: No te habia reconocida.  Civilized folk.

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16 minutes ago, AngusMactavish said:

Iztaccíhuatl, Teotihuacan, and Xoloitzcuintli, all Nahuatl derived words.

Xochitl (r. 877-916) was a Toltec Queen and wife of Tecpancaltzin 

My cat's name.

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7 minutes ago, modeeper said:

Xochitl (r. 877-916) was a Toltec Queen and wife of Tecpancaltzin 

My cat's name.

Xoloitzcuintli:

The Xoloitzcuintli (/zoʊloʊ.iːtsˈkwiːntli/ show-loh-eets-KWEENT-lee; Nahuatl pronunciation: /ʃoʊloʊ-/), or Xolo for short, is a hairless breed of dog, found in toy, miniature, and standard sizes.

It's my favorite breed as I was a small time breeder of them.

Mexico.Xoloitzcuintle.01.jpg

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Esternocleidooccipitomastoideos .. The longest word in Spanish (a muscle in the neck).

Sonsonete, the drone of machinery.

Mito .. myth.  Mitotero .. mythmaker.  A good substitute for a lot of harsher terms.

 

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5 minutes ago, mudgirl said:

Favorite place name- "Topolobampo".

Oh yeah, the ferry terminal.                                   

La Tzararacua

Zihuatenejo 

 

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