hippietrail

2,445 reputation

926

bio	website	en.wiktionary.org/wiki/…
	location	Tbilisi, Georgia
	age
visits	member for	1 year, 7 months
	seen	Jun 11 at 8:30
stats	profile views	89

I'm an Australian who learned Spanish in Mexico and has put it to use in Andorra, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Morocco, Nicaragua, Panama, and Spain. (Yeah I know Spanish isn't official in two or three of those countries but I ended up using it anyway at least some of the time.)

Sometimes people try to tell me I'm fluent but I'm definitely not.

I have a collection of monolingual and bilingual Spanish dictionaries that I've bought, many second hand, on my travels. I always look for a dictionary of regionalisms in each Spanish speaking country. I don't always find one.

	2,445 reputation	bio	website	en.wiktionary.org/wiki/…	visits	member for	1 year, 7 months
926 badges		location	Tbilisi, Georgia		seen	Jun 11 at 8:30

summary answers questions tags badges favorites bounties reputation activity

950 Actions

suggestions reviews revisions comments badges posts accepts all

Mar 12	awarded	Beta
Mar 8	revised	How do you say a “shot” referring to alcohol? edited tags
Mar 8	answered	How do you say a “shot” referring to alcohol?
Mar 8	revised	Why do definitions use 'que' rather than 'lo que' edited tags
Mar 8	revised	lo ayudo vs. le ayudo (direct vs. indirect object) edited tags
Mar 8	revised	What does the “lo” in “pasarlo bien” refer to? edited tags
Mar 8	revised	What's the function of “lo” in “lo que”? edited tags
Mar 8	revised	What does “lo” in “(no) lo es” refer to? edited tags
Mar 5	revised	Translation of “How far back?” in the context of time edited tags
Mar 5	revised	Usage of “ver(se)” for “to seem/look” (te ves, se te ve, te veo, etc.) edited tags
Mar 5	revised	Uses of “SE” : se discutió edited tags
Mar 4	comment	Is “versus” a Spanish word? Actually it could be that Latin never used it the way English uses it. The Spanish words verso and versar evolved from the Latin word but never had a sense like verus does in English or Spanish. Makes me wonder how English got to use versus in a way that Latin did not...
Mar 4	comment	How to refer to a specific decade in Spanish? eg. the 1960's You can translate "the '60s" as "los años sesenta" but on the net I also find "los sesentas".
Mar 4	revised	What exactly are the “passive se” and “impersonal se”? typo
Mar 4	comment	What exactly are the “passive se” and “impersonal se”? Spanish has reflexive verbs which English doesn't really have. In these cases "se" means "self" but it just isn't translated* as "self" in English because English won't use a reflexive verb most of the time. Such as "Lavarse las manos" is literally "Wash yourself the hands" but an idiomatic translation is "wash your hands". But English has some kinds of reflexive verbs. Such as "Sit yourself down" could be translated as "sentarse". Anyway this is why it's not a good idea generally to explain grammar points of language A via translations into language B.
Mar 4	revised	What exactly are the “passive se” and “impersonal se”? edited tags
Mar 4	comment	Is “versus” a Spanish word? So when in the evolution from Latin to Spanish did versus get dropped from the vocabulary? Or did it evolve into a Spanish word with a different form and meaning?
Mar 4	comment	Is “versus” a Spanish word? I agree with you @Theta30. If Spanish was as conservative as some at the RAE seem to pretend it to be, it would still be Latin \-:
Mar 3	revised	Spanish Grammar edited tags
Mar 1	comment	Gusto variant of the verb gustar Unless you're just learning Spanish you will have no trouble knowing the difference even with the accents missing. For instance "me gusto" means "I like myself" which is unlikely.