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?
Buffy: He ran away, right? Giles: Sort of, more. turned and swept out majestically, I suppose. Said I didn't concern him. Buffy: So a mythic triumph over a completely indifferent foe? Giles: Well, I'm not dead or unconscious, so I say bravo for me.
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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.
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
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.
Theodosia - Feb 16, 2005 2:59:10 pm PST #8325 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
You'll sound fairly stupid, but on the other hand, they'll know you're trying.
I remember hearing from a friend of mine who spent some time living with a host family in Germany that she ruffled a lot of feathers in the town she was staying in, because the German she'd learned at home was only using the familiar-you and she didn't know to switch to the formal-you with adults of her parents' age not related to her.
Strix - Feb 16, 2005 3:00:36 pm PST #8326 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
See, I liked Latin because I never ran into native Latin speakers who would confuse me. It was all nice dead people who never talked too fast or used modern street vernacular.
Kat - Feb 16, 2005 3:00:42 pm PST #8327 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Erin "sé que lo dijieron"