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Old December 06, 2010, 05:16 PM
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Is Spanish word accent blindness curable?I know I'm being silly here but I seem not to be able to grasp the concept that lots of Spanish words have accent marks.
I have a question because I have read your post and that don't be clear for me at least in two words you have placed in your post I'm being silly.

I don't know if you wanted to write that (I'm get silly instead being)

Here my other question not very clearing.

What do you want to express with word accent blindness.

Acento ciego literally that says in your sentence in English, then I'm sorry for be a little foolish with the same, but I haven't clear your post at all.
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Old December 06, 2010, 06:20 PM
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I have a question because I have read your post and that don't be clear for me at least in two words you have placed in your post I'm being silly.

I don't know if you wanted to write that (I'm get silly instead being)

Here my other question not very clearing.

What do you want to express with word accent blindness.

Acento ciego literally that says in your sentence in English, then I'm sorry for be a little foolish with the same, but I haven't clear your post at all.
Hi Crotalito,

I really meant that I'm being silly (I'm acting silly) because I'm doing a play on words or ideas in expressing what I want to say. I don't pay attention to accent marks therefore it's just like I don't see them. A person who does not see is blind, right? But I'm only blind when it comes to seeing accents and that is why I said I have accent blindness. I hope I made my self clear. If not please ask me to explain further.
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Old December 06, 2010, 06:33 PM
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Hi Crotalito,

I really meant that I'm being silly (I'm acting silly) because I'm doing a play on words or ideas in expressing what I want to say. I don't pay attention to accent marks therefore it's just like I don't see them. A person who does not see is blind, right? But I'm only blind when it comes to seeing accents and that is why I said I have accent blindness. I hope I made my self clear. If not please ask me to explain further.
Yes already I got it since that point.
Thank you for your explanation, and for pointing me again your commentary.
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I have a question because I have read your post and that don't be clear for me at least in two words you have placed in your post I'm being silly.

I don't know if you wanted to write that (I'm get silly instead being)

Here my other question not very clearing.

What do you want to express with word accent blindness.

Acento ciego literally that says in your sentence in English, then I'm sorry for be a little foolish with the same, but I haven't clear your post at all.
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Yes already I got it since that point.
Thank you for your explanation, and for pointing me again your commentary.
You're welcome
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Ahí está el quid de la cuestión...

@Perikles, sorry, in your example of "aritmética" and then talking about differenciating the "i" without tilde and with tilde, it gave me impression that you were referring to that...

Maybe I extrapolate a little bit too much, but someone alien to the subject could possibly get it wrong... (or maybe it's just me... in a hurry...)
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I know I'm being silly here but I seem not to be able to grasp the concept that lots of Spanish words have accent marks.
CrOtALiTo, I thought I'd rewrite that sentence for you.
" I am aware that this is silly, but I seem to have trouble remembering that Spanish words have accent marks."
(grasp. used to mean ability to obtain understanding.)
Not sure if you needed this.

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I liked the words you chose.
i like reading short español sentences in a post. easy learning.
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Old December 08, 2010, 01:13 AM
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@JosephThomas,
Me alegro de que te guste mi elección de palabras...
[I am glad you like my word choice...] (literally my 'selection of words']
Me alegro de que te guste leer frases cortas.
[I am glad you like to read short sentences].

(These days I am extra busy... so I don't get to ramble all around with my Spanish verbiage...)
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CrOtALiTo, I thought I'd rewrite that sentence for you.
" I am aware that this is silly, but I seem to have trouble remembering that Spanish words have accent marks."
(grasp. used to mean ability to obtain understanding.)
Not sure if you needed this.

JPablo.
I liked the words you chose.
i like reading short español sentences in a post. easy learning.
Yes I accept your correction although I need to use in that phrase the word reach.

Knowing the same you have told me because, you can see something like to this phrase.

I can reach the hight knowledge in my English.
Although I aware of that can means for me.

Thank you for your advices.
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Yes I accept your correction although I need to use in that phrase the word reach.

Knowing the same you have told me because, you can see something like to this phrase.

I can reach the hight knowledge in my English.
Although I aware of that can means for me.

Thank you for your advices.
Grammatical corrections I would make.
"Yes, I accept your correction, although I need to use the word reach (or, 'reach') in that phrase." - CrOtALiTo

"I can reach the height of my knowledge in English."
(I think you should claim possession of knowledge not english, because Knowledge took possession of english)
"Although I am aware of what that means for me."

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Old December 12, 2010, 05:25 PM
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Not really, I didn't understand the explanation about the possession in the word knowledge and where I should to apply thus rules in English

In the last phrase I wanted to mean, I can reach the high of my knowledge in English.

I'm aware of my goal in the language. Until this time, I should to study more in my grammatical English..

I will willing to know more about.
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