Help!! translation disaster!! (spanish-English
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te conozco bacalao aunque vengas disfrazao".........
is it appropriate to say this to someone?
say if someone introduces you to someone
thanks
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Have a beautiful and peaceful day
Jacira
<ple...@attglobal.net> wrote in message news:3b728...@news1.prserv.net...
> what does this mean?
> te conozco bacalao aunque vengas disfrazao".........
> is it appropriate to say this to someone?
> say if someone introduces you to someone
> thanks
Well, being the unofficial RMAL technical translator, I would say that, no,
this would NOT be a terribly appropriate thing to say to someone you just
met... let's just say that it could lead to terrible misinterpretations!
It literally means: "I know you, codfish, even if you come in a disguise",
but figuratively it means: "No matter what you say or do, I can see right
through you".
Jacira
Dennis M. Reed "Califa"
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Aché
Dennis M. Reed "Califa"
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"Jacira" <jac...@salsapower.com> wrote in message
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Matthew Bradley
sometimes used to describe a shady/untrustworthy character. Its
basically saying, "I know that you're being insincere." Of course, my
translation does it no justice!
César Norberto Díaz
<dmr...@home.com> wrote:
>of course "bacalao" also has a double meaning too
>
how about triple,
I think it has a connection with... a certain...better, explain. An
Italian friend, a woman co-worker of mine, told me once something that
floored me: "Italian men don't go down, they don't like baccala". I
just said: "really?" A lovely person, I just don't know where that
came from, it caught me by surprise.
>> but figuratively it means: "No matter what you say or do, I can see right
>> through you".
Yeah, go figure, I had it all wrong. That number, as I said once
before, was the "party record" among us Panamanians in Brooklyn.
"En la para'(da) de la 25,
se ha montado un bacalao".
"Un bacalao, dos bacalao,
tres bacalao, cuatro bacalao,
sala'o"
We chauvinistically (and stupidly) applied that adjective solely to
females.
César.
Dennis M. Reed "Califa"
"César Norberto Díaz" <gbau...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Previously on rec.music.afro-latin, "Dennis M. Reed \"Califa\""
> <dmr...@home.com> wrote:
>
> >of course "bacalao" also has a double meaning too
> >
>
> how about triple,
>
> I think it has a connection with... a certain...better, explain. An
> Italian friend, a woman co-worker of mine, told me once something that
> floored me: "Italian men don't go down, they don't like baccala". I
> just said: "really?" A lovely person, I just don't know where that
> came from, it caught me by surprise.
>
we used to do a tune which included the lyric "Yo no como bacaloa salao, hay
que lavarlo primero"...good dance tune and many folks would crack up when we
sang it!
Nina
Gorda's "subido en el palo" to my daughter, I couldnt sing "y yo sigo
subido en el palo" without feeling a little bashful. Same with La
Makinas "Loquito por Ti", theres the line "yo me vuelvo loco, se me
rompío el coco". Now when i hear the song its ok, but if someone were
to tell me he was crazy in love with me and "yo me vuelvo loco, se me
rompío el coco" i would probably pause to make sure he wasnt trying to
be "nasty". Especially since im here in the south and they use the
english equivalent of "romper el coco" a LOT.
nina
who is just now learning that Italian men are good for only one thing-
making sexy shoes
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César Norberto Díaz
wrote:
>who is just now learning that Italian men are good for only one thing-
>making sexy shoes
So, my friend was right after all, uh?
César.
>
Jacira
Firenze (Florence) for a year...and didn't find that to be the case at all!
;-p
Jaci
César Norberto Díaz
<jac...@salsapower.com> wrote:
What? You mean they don't make sexy shoes?
César.
ple...@attglobal.net
really nasty when you ask them to dance?-- I for one am now sort of tending
to ask non Spanish women to dance rather than Spanish--I have been much more
successful in getting dancing partners
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