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notamiss
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| You could explain the "8 d�as" and "15 d�as" by saying that you are counting both the starting day and the current day (for example, today being Sunday, from last Sunday up to today is 8 days if you count both last Sunday and today) but that doesn't explain why "3 weeks" is "20 d�as". By that logic it ought to be 22, but it isn't. |
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MO39
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
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Location: El ombligo de la Rep�blica Mexicana
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| I learn something new everyday on Dave's. All the times I've been in Mexico, I've never heard anyone say "20 d�as" to mean three weeks. Thanks, notamiss, for the confusing information. |
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MikeySaid
Joined: 10 Nov 2004
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Location: Torreon, Mexico
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Why do people here say "Ahorita vengo", when in fact they are going to be gone for many hours or days? |
I've wondered about this, too. My Mexican friend tells me in English, "I'll be right back." and then is gone for hours. One of the hardest things for me to understand is Mexican's concept of "ahorita" |
"al rato" and "un ratito" are even more vague. |
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TheLongWayHome
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Location: San Luis Piojosi
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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| notamiss wrote: |
| You could explain the "8 d�as" and "15 d�as" by saying that you are counting both the starting day and the current day (for example, today being Sunday, from last Sunday up to today is 8 days if you count both last Sunday and today) but that doesn't explain why "3 weeks" is "20 d�as". By that logic it ought to be 22, but it isn't. |
Yes, the French use the same 'logic' - dans 8 jours / dans 15 jours. |
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Gary Denness
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 6:28 pm Post subject: Satellite |
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I want to know what is up with the satelitte dishes in Mexico. In the UK they are mesh and no amount of wind or rain will disturb the reception. Only heavy snow causes a problem.
Here the dishes are solid and every evening, when it rains, reception goes to hell. It's madness. And it always happens during the good bit of a program or film...
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thelmadatter
Joined: 31 Mar 2003
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Location: in el Distrito Federal x fin!
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 10:05 pm Post subject: comprobantes |
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dang comprobantes de domicilios for everything. Why the heck does my bank want a comprobante de domicilio to change where they send my statement? Why the heck would I lie about where to send my own statements? Why doesn't the address on the FM3 work as a comprobante???
Why does the bank and some other institutions prefer my US passport for ID over my FM3??? |
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Elise9
Joined: 14 Mar 2006
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Location: Celaya, GTO
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 10:58 pm Post subject: Re: Satellite |
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| Gary Denness wrote: |
I want to know what is up with the satelitte dishes in Mexico. In the UK they are mesh and no amount of wind or rain will disturb the reception. Only heavy snow causes a problem.
Here the dishes are solid and every evening, when it rains, reception goes to hell. It's madness. And it always happens during the good bit of a program or film...
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Related to this... Sometimes the reception on our telephone gets bad and fuzzy, and everyone says it's the rain... I've never heard rain affecting telephone wires before. |
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EverReady
Joined: 19 May 2005
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Location: Nobody Cares
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 11:35 pm Post subject: Re: comprobantes |
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Why does the bank and some other institutions prefer my US passport for ID over my FM3??? |
Your FM-3 is not an official form of identification (the same as a green card in the US is not official ID either). |
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mapache
Joined: 12 Oct 2006
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Location: Villahermosa
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 11:53 am Post subject: |
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| Actually rain does affect telephone wires. Most of the telephone cables in Mexico are above ground and not in waterproof conduit and vaults like other places in the world. The craftsmanship of Telmex in making cable connections is lazy, causing water from the rain to get into the connections outside causing static or total service failure. |
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MELEE
Joined: 22 Jan 2003
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Location: The Mexican Hinterland
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Heck even the electricity is dodgy when it rains. |
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MO39
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
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Location: El ombligo de la Rep�blica Mexicana
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Heck even the electricity is dodgy when it rains. |
Hence the plethora of elecrtric clocks blinking 12:00 during the rainy season! |
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MikeySaid
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Location: Torreon, Mexico
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Why do even members of the "middle class" use mexicanico methods for fixing things? |
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MO39
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Why do even members of the "middle class" use mexicanico methods for fixing things? |
Examples, please... |
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TheLongWayHome
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
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Location: San Luis Piojosi
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Why do even members of the "middle class" use mexicanico methods for fixing things? |
Talking of which. The other week as we arrived to a large multi-national company in SLP's industrial estate to give classes, two security guards we're trying to close part of the road that runs parallel to the plant. They only had a couple of smallish traffic cones which they had deemed insufficient for the job. A few days before, a lot of new trees had been planted along the middle of this road by said large multi-national company doing their bit for the environment... what on earth do you think the two security guards used to bolster their roadblock? |
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M@tt
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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in hebrew/bible times the jews also counted the first and last day each as a day, so things like friday-sunday were considered 3 days.
try asking a mexican what they say when they actually mean 8 days. i tried and the person didn't understand what i was getting at. |
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