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Old April 28, 2016, 01:40 PM
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Thank you for that explanation Rusty, but I forgot all the grammar that I learned in school and wasn't any closer to translating the sentence after I read it. Alec, why did you change llaman to llamada in the traditional translation?
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I think you can say: Qué es la (or esa) cosa que se llaman el amor.
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Thank you for that explanation Rusty, but I forgot all the grammar that I learned in school and wasn't any closer to translating the sentence after I read it. Alec, why did you change llaman to llamada in the traditional translation?
you're asking me the difference between "called" and "they call" in Spanish.
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