I could be saying "You smoke monkey crack" for all I know, really.
You should totally say this to them in Spanish.
Mal: Well, you were right about this being a bad idea. Zoe: Thanks for sayin', sir.
'Serenity'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Feb 16, 2005 2:48:05 pm PST #8315 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Strix - Feb 16, 2005 2:49:31 pm PST #8316 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
See: edit, above.
Kat - Feb 16, 2005 2:49:54 pm PST #8317 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Usted is formal you, singular. Ustedes is plural you.
Strix - Feb 16, 2005 2:51:09 pm PST #8318 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
That's what I inferred. So I wouldn't use "usted/usteded" in convo, just use the correct ending on the verb for the 2nd person sing/plural tense?
Betsy HP - Feb 16, 2005 2:51:46 pm PST #8319 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
You can usually drop the pronoun in Spanish because the form of the verb gives the same information. "Dices" and "Tu dices" are the same thing.
Jessica - Feb 16, 2005 2:54:08 pm PST #8320 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
In casual spoken Spanish, pronouns generally get dropped. This caused me much trauma when I started taking French in college, because the foreign-language-learning part of my brain didn't want to change gears into pronoun-using.
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You can usually drop the pronoun in Spanish because the form of the verb gives the same information.
Just like in French! See how logical my brain is? It's not my fault the languages refuse to play along.]
Kat - Feb 16, 2005 2:54:24 pm PST #8321 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Erin, yes, but the correct verb ending changes between usted and tú (which is the informal 2nd person singular).
Strix - Feb 16, 2005 2:55:07 pm PST #8322 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Ha! All that Latin is good for something! I freaked one of the smart ass kids out when they were looking up "inquest" in the dictionary and he said "I bet you don't know where that comes from" and I rattled off "Inquire. Latin for "to ask""
It was worth EVERY PENNY just to be able to do that, I tell ya.
Soy un professora listo espantoso. ¡Yo me río de usted!
Strix - Feb 16, 2005 2:56:54 pm PST #8323 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
So if I'm talking to students plural, instead of "se lo..." I say...?
Kat - Feb 16, 2005 2:57:55 pm PST #8324 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
This caused me much trauma when I started taking French in college, because the foreign-language-learning part of my brain didn't want to change gears into pronoun-using.
HA! Flip this and you have my response to spanish. I keep thinking, "WHA? I have to pay attention to endings. Where are the pronouns."
Also, I'm prolly wrong but if you are using usted, you should say usted since the verb endings are the same for 3rd person singular.