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Old November 18, 2009, 05:27 PM
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Sonar la flauta por casualidad significa acertar por cadualidad. In English?
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sonar la flauta = to get lucky

How did he land that job? He wasn't really looking.
He got lucky. (It was dumb luck.)(Just plain lucky, I guess.)
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it's a tale about a donkey wich, seeing a flute, played it without really knowing/wanting
"ya sonó la flauta" (por casualidad)
to get a lucky shot?

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wich,
*cough* It might help to know that originally, the digraph wh and the consonant w were different sounds, and the wh was originally hw in Old English. So all old words such as what where why who which when etc. start with this old hw consonant. Nouns which joined the language later have the other consonant w. In some dialects, the two consonants are pronounced differently. Or perhaps this does not help.

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Sonar la flauta por casualidad significa acertar por cadualidad. In English?
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