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[Guy Courchesne]

pues, fijate. no lo sabia

Estoy fijado en mis fijaciones que yo fijo que los fijeros estan fijados en sus frijoles

[richtx1]

[MixtecaMike]

[MixtecaMike]

[moonraven]

The ruling regarding 1000 peso bills is that all banks must make change for them--but you can only give them 3 at a time to be exchanged.

Mike--I am not buying that it was a typo. This isn't the first time you have made that kind of an error on this site. People who try to impress others with their second language skills would be advised to have them....

[Ben Round de Bloc]

[Guy Courchesne]

Ever the consumate teacher you are, Ben.

We need a spanish teacher in here it seems...

Por k mi espanyol ya sta mal

[moonraven]

The word puzo doesn't exist in Spanish. Last I recall, it was the last name of the author of The Godfather.

Maybe Mike wants us to think he is a character from a Juan Rulfo story with his "pos s�, instead of "pues s�"? El llano en llamas is bursting with great short stories, but one needs to keep in mind that Rulfo was writing about folks who were illiterate....

[Guy Courchesne]

say, is 'pues' or 'pos' even a real word? I've seen native Spanish speakers write it as pos, but I always try to right it as 'pues' since that is how it sounds.

the only people I met that use it on a consistent basis were people born in the Acapulco region. Often, the answer to a question there is 'si, pues'.

[moonraven]

Dictionaries are very helpful to have for questions like these. And if you check one online you will find that pues is a perfectly legitimate word.

I teach in Spanish--specifically "Redacci�n"--and I have found that most native speakers have atrocious spelling. Don't let yourself be led down the primrose path by them.

[Guy Courchesne]

Having taught here a number of years, and with a background in writing, I'm a lover of colloquialisms.

Dictionaries are usually 20 years behind the times in this sense.

I have seen some atrocious spelling mistakes in Spanish by native speakers of the language. It's telling as to just how phoentic Spanish is. Common mistakes like mixing the b and the v, or ll and a y, all mistakes by the similarities in sounds.

Could be why we English speakers misssspell things, acenchuating the dificultys

[moonraven]

The use of "pues" as a colloquialism is fairly recent. In its formal application, it is used the way "as" is used in English.

I am not interested in a competition, here, Guy--I just answered your question. If your question was purely rhetorical, perhaps you should have indicated that?

[Guy Courchesne]

No competition intended. I think based on others reactions in this forum, that you and I can grate a little on some people.

I value your judgement and experience and thank you for answering my question.

First and foremost for me, I have fun in this forum. It doesn't come across very well when read, but I find great pleasure in wit, pun, and playful language. Not everyone else does, and to that I give a big

RASPBERRY!!!!!

you see?

Hey moonie...wanna get in on a philophy versus theology thread? Like shooting fish in a barrel. It's just next door

[MixtecaMike]

Moonraven doesn't buy it that "fiate" was a typo?

Well that's OK, it wasn't actually on sale.

The fact that fiate doesn't even sound like fijate should indicate that it was a typo, all the same. If I could do accents from here there would be one on the a to indicate I was voceando you to indicate my gran familiarity or total disrespect for you, you choose, LOL.

I'll stand corrected on the puzo vs. puso, but I didn't really study written Spanish anywhere, so I get the accents wrong on tu and esta all the time too. I only used a Spanish dictionary when I was writing for publication, which was usually going from Spanish to English, so in fact I have rarely opened my Spanish dictionary.

[Guy Courchesne]

I can only respond with a resounding

KEWL