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Yeah, that looks good...

Also, le gusta tomar isn't a good example, since "tomar" is the subject of "gustar" here, rather than an example of the sort of construction the OP is asking about. Consider that while "tomar le gusta" is grammatical, *"tomar necesito" isn't. Tomar le gusta ? Doesn't make sense to me, but only beca...

Best said fast: I'm not a pheasant plucker I'm a pheasant plucker's son, I'm only plucking pheasants till the pheasant plucker comes. And something some people may recognise from the days of yore: How much would could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? And whilst not a tongue twister...

Um, treegod, you know it's not that different in Spanish right? No I did not. And I'm not sure if I'm any wiser now that I've read you explanation :? (I think it'll take me a while navigating my grammar dictionary to understand...) I was making a comment on Spanish conjugations to my girlfriend, sa...

I read somewhere that in Mexico they use usted for everyone. No, *that* specific thing isn't true. Maybe for some people in parts of Mexico (I'll have to look it up and get back to you...), but certainly not most of the Mexican speakers I hear. There are some places where usted is basically the nor...

Ooh, those are good words. I quite like ambiguous.

And I say Aussie as [ˈɔzi] (or maybe [ˈɔzi:]?), nothing like the French aussi or anything like that

Whimemsz wrote:This sort of thing varies a whole lot in different areas of the Spanish-speaking world, though, so what holds for Spanish-speakers in whereveryouare, Catalonia doesn't always hold for people elsewhere.

True. I read somewhere that in Mexico they use usted for everyone.

I often make mistakes with gender in Spanish. Having to show the gender and singular/plural in the adjective confuses me sometimes. Recently I said "Està muy simpatica pero demasiado entusiastica." I believe it should be demasiad a . (And I was talking about my boxer.) Nope, demasiado is right, act...

I often make mistakes with gender in Spanish. Having to show the gender and singular/plural in the adjective confuses me sometimes. Recently I said "Està muy simpatica pero demasiado entusiastica." I believe it should be demasiad a . (And I was talking about my boxer.) Oh yes, and the first time I r...

sano wrote:next: bits; fragments; crumbs; trivial

Alahithian: pit (plural pid)

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Something I'm learning with Spanish. It has tú/vosotros and usted/es. I've never needed to use usted so far, and most of the time I hear tú , even between strangers. I've even called strangers in informal circumstances tú , though if I was in more formal or professional circumstances I'd be tempted ...

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treegod wrote:Isn't that the American Sign Language alphabet?

Yes, but N and O seem to be switched, as are S and T.

Which could get confusing if you want to say tons of snot.

Sigh. You should have someone ready to call an ambulance... On standby... a) in exclamations, in clause fragments, as subjects when non-compound, as implicational subject attributes, as complements of i) verbs expressing will/desire, ii) the verbs adorer, aimer, détester , iii) verbs expressing bel...

Strangeness is a subjective value judgement.

Anyway, what it all really comes down to at the end of the day is this: Madrid or Barça?

Don't mix things. One thing is the presence of Catalanism in Barcelona, and another the idea that Spanish is more spoken on the streets than Catalan. I'm not mixing, it's all quite mixed up here anyway, lol. Catalan in one ear, Spanish in another and English in between. I did say " partly because o...

Abhorrent and abhore. I like those too. Not so much abhorrence though.

Astraios wrote: French, don't ask, your head will explode.

I can handle new ideas like agglutination, infinitive and proposition, I think I can handle it. Hit me with it...

Apeiron wrote:yesh "there is"

Please, put your teeth back in, we don't want spittle all over the keyboard...

I pronounce it Edimbru ("u" for putt not put).

How do other NatLangs handle the function of the infinitive to ? "He likes to skate." (as opposed to the prepositional "He skated to the store") In the same manner as Spanish for the first one: le gusta patinar . So there is no need to use a to-infinitive. Ong lefirt bosir means He(she/it) likes to...

superfluous

I think I like how it looks like super-fluous but is actually said supErfluos.

Lol.

Isn't that the American Sign Language alphabet?

I know the alphabet in BSL and how to say "dead dog".

The situation of Catalan is unusual, in that it's a 'dialect' that is spoken in what has for a very long time been a major urban area, and that has for some time now been almost at the level of the national capital. It gives it immense prestige, compared to other dialects, most of which lost their ...

Here's a haiku I wrote in English translated to Alahithian: Sivur geraf sanashosh, Trust life's adventure, Ridew shon bexit, Open to you potential, (literally, accept you potential) Ing daraw batath. And face the challenge. (lit. and stand the challenge) I've changed hh to x and ôo to û. The other d...

Beware "español" is how people in northern Latin America (Mexico, El Salvador, Colombia...) call it though. I don't see myself moving there any time soon. I live in Catalonia, so I have to pick what I call it and to who carefully lol. The problem I read is that there aren't enough people that speak...

This is an interesting thread. I didn't realise that France had such an attitude to its minority languages. Spanish is funny because it has only been called "Spanish" since it was used as a tool for Empire building, something that many minorities, like Catalans, baulk at. So I call it castellano in ...