No Que

[Luna Azul]

Originally Posted by Elaina

¿No que? (understood as ¿No que no?)
-Ya no quiero salir con Ricardo nunca más.
...A los tres dias Ricardo me invita a salir y salgo con el. Mi amiga me dice: ¿No que...... (no que no ibas a salir con el)

-Ya no quiero trabajar.
....me hablan para darme otra asignación y la acepto. Mi compañera de trabajo me dice: ¿No que....(no que ya no querias trabajar)

etc. etc. etc.

¿Lo dices así solo? ¿sin terminar la frase y sólo con frases negativas?

Entonces será cierto lo que Angélica dice, es algo que solo se usa en algunas partes del México y tal vez en los estados americanos cerca a la frontera.

Interesante..

[poli]

You don't mean ¡que no! do you?
I have heard que no used among Latin Americans, and it is a very emphatic no.

[Luna Azul]

Originally Posted by poli

You don't mean ¡que no! do you?
I have heard que no used among Latin Americans, and it is a very emphatic no.

That's something totally different. It means "I said no!"
"no que" means something like "didn't you say/hadn't you said that.....?"

"Hadn't you said that you were studying?"
"No habías dicho que estabas estudiando?"
"¿No que estabas estudiando?"

In other countries we say "¿No dizque estabas estudiando?

It would be interested to know how this is said in countries like Argentina and Chile.. or around there.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by Luna Azul

That's something totally different. It means "I said no!"
"no que" means something like "didn't you say/hadn't you said that.....?"

"Hadn't you said that you were studying?"
"No habías dicho que estabas estudiando?"
"¿No que estabas estudiando?"

In other countries we say "¿No dizque estabas estudiando?

It would be interesting to know how if this is said in countries like Argentina and Chile.. or around there.

Not in Chile, we would say "ah, que no iba a.... (etc)"

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

@Poli: "¿Qué, no?" is also very Mexican indeed (plenty of examples in Pedro Infante movies), and it would certainly express "¿Verdad que sí?".

Vas a venir a verme, ¿qué, no?
You're coming to see me, aren't you?

Finalmente compraste el coche, ¿qué, no?
So you finally bought the car, didn't you?

Querías hacer la fiesta, ¿qué, no? Pues ahora paga las cuentas.
You wanted to make the party, didn't you? So pay the bills now.

[Luna Azul]

Considering all the language variations in the Spanish speaking countries it's amazing that we can still understand each other..

[chileno]

Originally Posted by Luna Azul

Considering all the language variations in the Spanish speaking countries it's amazing that we can still understand each other..

Not amazing since these are also variations of sayings...Que no?

[Luna Azul]

Originally Posted by chileno

Not amazing since these are also variations of sayings...Que no?

Some of the vocabulary can be very different. I had a hard time talking to a guy from Uruguay once. I know the grammar is the same, but the words change.

Maybe it's just me..

[poli]

I think it's all in the comma. Qué no without the comma sounds chocante.

By the way, I have a friend whose mother is Mexican. She often finishes her sentence with "no?" It's very much like qué, no in Mexican Spanish.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by poli

I think it's all in the comma. Qué no without the comma sounds chocante.

By the way, I have a friend whose mother is Mexican. She often finishes her sentence with "no?" It's very much like qué, no in Mexican Spanish.

Que no? es sin coma.

No? it is the same. We use a it a lot.