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DailyWord January 16, 2010 09:16 AM

Arca
 
This is a discussion thread for the Daily Spanish Word for January 8, 2010

arca (feminine noun (uses el in the singular, las in the plural)) — chest, box, coffer, ark, tank, reservoir. Look up arca in the dictionary

Todos hemos escuchado la historia del Arca de Noé.
We have all heard the story of Noah's Ark.

Elaina January 16, 2010 01:54 PM

Some people refer to their underarm as arca....

:p

laepelba January 16, 2010 04:43 PM

The RAE says (amongst many other things) in the definition for "arca" that there is a saying: "arca llena y arca vacía" which is defined "Alternativa de abundancia y escasez de dinero o de otras cosas."

Does this mean something like "alternating between abundance and scarcity of material things"?

pjt33 January 16, 2010 05:05 PM

"Feast and famine" would be more idiomatic :p

laepelba January 16, 2010 05:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pjt33 (Post 68766)
"Feast and famine" would be more idiomatic :p

Gracias!!

chileno January 16, 2010 05:14 PM

"El tiempo de las vacas gordas y de las flacas" :)

Also: "now you see it, now you don't" :wicked: :whistling:

laepelba January 16, 2010 05:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chileno (Post 68771)
"El tiempo de las vacas gordas y de las flacas" :)

Also: "now you see it, now you don't" :wicked: :whistling:

I like the first. The second ... well, I don't think it applies......... :D

chileno January 16, 2010 05:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by laepelba (Post 68772)
I like the first. The second ... well, I don't think it applies......... :D

Well, not exactly...but did you smile?

laepelba January 16, 2010 05:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chileno (Post 68773)
Well, not exactly...but did you smile?

I especially smiled because I think that you must have changed your post to add the second part between the time that I clicked on the link to the page and the time that I clicked on "quote" ... did you? Because I only saw the first on the page, but when I clicked "quote", I saw "now you see it, now you don't" and THAT was weird! When I clicked "back", my browser used the cached page, so it still didn't say "now you see it now you don't", and this happened a couple of times before I decided to reload the page from scratch when I finally actually saw it in your post.

SOOOOoooo, REALLY, now I see it, but then I didn't. :lol:

Besides ... I almost always smile at your comments! :D

chileno January 16, 2010 05:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by laepelba (Post 68775)
I especially smiled because I think that you must have changed your post to add the second part between the time that I clicked on the link to the page and the time that I clicked on "quote" ... did you? Because I only saw the first on the page, but when I clicked "quote", I saw "now you see it, now you don't" and THAT was weird! When I clicked "back", my browser used the cached page, so it still didn't say "now you see it now you don't", and this happened a couple of times before I decided to reload the page from scratch when I finally actually saw it in your post.

SOOOOoooo, REALLY, now I see it, but then I didn't. :lol:

Besides ... I almost always smile at your comments! :D

yes!

it was funny, because it was weird how you answered that fast! :D


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