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Actually, Tarakii, that bit of Spanish which you so cleverly told your friend would transalate to "Listen, Child." If you wanted to say "Listen to the Child" you would say (I believe, I'm about as scrubby as you are) "Escucha a el nino." Only with the ~ above the N. You know, the 16th (?) letter in the Spanish alphabet...

 

Anyway, just a small correction there.

 

(Homeschooled)

I'm Turakii. Not Turahki, Takanii, or Tarakii.

 

Anyways, thanks for telling me. I assumed nino meant boy, because the side of the diaper box has a Spanish translation for "suitable for both boys and girls." It figures it means "child."

 

I appreciate your correction, Nukora.

 

Maybe my friend won't figure it out...

And if you want to get even more grammatically correct, it would be "Escuchen al nino." A + El (the definitive masculine article, not the pronoun with the accent representing "he") = Al. It's one of the few contractions in Spanish.

I thought niño was boy and niña girl, but that's just me.

 

Yah, there's no perfect translating programme in existence. Although rumour has it Microsoft is developping one. If it works, it might put me out of a job, being a translator student and all...

Fun fact: a programme used to translate 'out of sight, out of mind' into Russian, gave a translation which, when translated into English again, appeared to mean 'invisible lunatic'. XD

Yes, Schizo, that too. (yay for the correct letter!) But if there was a group of children with both boys and girls, it was niños. And because of that I figured a child, whos gender is not known or not specified would be a niño.

 

And thanks Onuki for pointing out the contraction. I'm lucky I didn't put "a la" like I almost did. >.< I always forget stuff like "al", "del" and all those other contractions. Strange, though, that all the contractions I am aware of are only for the masculine form...

 

And sorry, Turkii, for the name miscalling. I always do that. *Nirika is a different person than Nikira...Nirika is a different person than Nikira...*

And you can't forget yourself and Nikira. You two have such similar names, it took me awhile to remember who was who.

 

Thanks, Onuki. Since you pointed out a while ago, in one of my comedies, that "anteayer" means the day before yesterday in Spanish, I had a feeling you'd be coming in here with a correction.

 

SCHIZO: "Out of sight, out of mind" into "invisible lunatic." With a bit of tweaking, that could be one funny signature quote.

 

I read one similar to that. A machine translated "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" into Russian. A human translator pointed out that, literally translated, the message now read, "The whisky is agreeable but the meat has gone bad."

Strange, though, that all the contractions I am aware of are only for the masculine form...

Those are the only ones that I know exist, too.

 

Although if you're using the word for and, "y," and it's before an "i" sound, the "y" is turned into an "e." Por ejemplo (For example): Los tiburones comen con Juan e Ignacio. (The sharks ate with John and Ignatius.)

 

*insert upside-down question mark here*De nada, Turakii!

 

(You're welcome, Turakii!)

Quick question, Onuki. Which means "dance," canta or bailar? I know one means sing and one means dance, but I can't remember which.

Yeah, me and Nikira are friends because of that similar name...

 

Bailando is dancing. Bailar is dance. Canta is sing. Thanks, Onuki, it did seem so strange that "and" was sometimes "y" and sometimes "e". But, of course you can't forget the 22 (veintidos). Not sure about other 20 numbers...

 

EDIT: No, I was saying how the number 22 is a sortof contraction of twenty (Veinte) and two (dos). There are 29 letters on the spanish alphabet.

 

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, LL, M, N, ñ, O, P, Q, R, RR, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z.

 

ñ is like ny. LL, is like y, and rr, is a rolled r. But then, I may be wrong about ll and rr being considered different letters an there still being a Y. It's been a hwile.

I thought "dancing" was "bailarin." I guess I was wrong. Pobre Turakii.

 

So there are twenty-two numbers in Spanish? Then...which letters are missing?

Aiyoh! I'll stick to my English (native tongue), dear French, and my German ... which I'm admittedly still working on. And then I'm going to learn Italian. Spanish and Chinese come later according to my parents ... though I may have to take it this year. Fun. Learning two languages at the same time.