Thread: Salir vs. dejar
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Old December 10, 2009, 10:11 AM
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The interesting thing is that I've been polling my students throughout the day, and almost all of them say to use "salir". It was just this group of sisters (triplets) who grew up in Guadalahara (Mexico) who insist that it was "dejar".

The OTHER interesting thing is that when we started talking about "dejar", the one of the triplets had a zillion questions for me about the word "leave". I never actually *said* the word "leave" in English. But for some reason they were having some difficulty wrapping their arms around the idea of "leave". (They've only been in the US for about 10 months...)

Hmmm....

(Thanks for the input, everyone! I LOVE all of the examples!!)
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