Ask for me

[CrOtALiTo]

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

"Pedir por alguien" in Mexico can only mean to pray for someone (or to ask for favours for someone).
Most people wouldn't understand here "pides por mí en la puerta" as "preguntar por alguien en la puerta".

One can say "pides que me llamen" though.

In fact you are right Angelica.

The likely the people use this phrase to pray for someone or something they need very urgent at the moment, for example when you pray for an illness people, in fact I have prayed for my children.


for the diabetes, when I go to the sleep always you must pray before to sleep you ask something you need with the all your heart.

I will pray for you.

[sosia]

Originally Posted by Perikles

Yes thanks, I knew the name Sosias for the slave in Aristophanes, but if somebody like Plautus changes it to Sosia (in Latin) for no particular reason then it sounds like a very feminine ending to me. (Sexuality in slaves is a difficult subject - he could have been portrayed as effeminate ) I'm not saying it has to be feminine, I'm just saying it sounds like it to me, that's all.

(The Athenian Perikles had a girlfriend called Aspasia - perhaps this has influenced me )

Then I suppose you see Aspasias everywhere

Originally Posted by María José

So you chose your alias so that it would mean alias. Alter ego. Your evil twin. Or am I totally off the mark?
Anyway, with that name you could either be male or female. I know you are a guy because you like flirting with fairies (literal meaning). Just kidding...
Anyway, thanks for the classical info.

I was thinking wich name should I use as alter ego, doppelganger, Dolly or clon, and I remember the greek name for clon -sosia- and I took it.
Now I know it's a latin devaluation

I'm obligued to flirt with you, you have the malevous combination of beauty and rebellion wich makes us men crazy

Originally Posted by Perikles

I can't offhand think of any male names ending -ia.

Vania I think, but usuallly it's feminine (Vania, Tania, Rania, Alicia, Patricia.......)
as you can see here, I think it's always femenine.
http://www.familiesonlinemagazine.co...mes/greek.html

saludos

[poli]

Oí hoy lo siguiente: "Hablé hoy con mi primo y preguntó por tí. Quería saber si como estabas en estas últimas semanas."
En este caso preguntar por significa ask about.
¿Es común usar preguntar por en este caso?


To a foreigner pedir por sounds bad because pedir means to ask for. Therefore pedir por sounds like ask for for. That's sound redundant to me.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Right, Poli. "Preguntar por alguien" is to ask where they are or how they are. Context tells.

Mi hermano preguntó por ti. Dijo que ayer te vio enfermo.
My brother asked how you are. He said he'd seen you sick yesterday.

Si no te veo en el restorán, pregunto por ti más tarde.
If we don't meet at the restaurent, I will ask later where you are.

Como no fuiste a la fiesta de navidad, todos preguntaron por ti.
As you didn't go to the Christmas party, everyone was asking about you.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by poli

Oí hoy lo siguiente: "Hablé hoy con mi primo y preguntó por tí. Quería saber si como estabas en estas últimas semanas."
En este caso preguntar por significa ask about.
¿Es común usar preguntar por en este caso?


To a foreigner pedir por sounds bad because pedir means to ask for. Therefore pedir por sounds like ask for for. That's sound redundant to me.

Ask = pedir (petition)

ask= preguntar (ask a question)

Preguntó por mí (¿Está fulanito X?)

Pidió por mí (¡Tráiganme a fulanito X!)

[irmamar]

(Off topic)
An interesting link about 'sosia'.

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by irmamar

(Off topic)
An interesting link about 'sosia'.

Still off-topic: Thanks, and off course the play by Moliere is also the source of anfitrión meaning host.

Even more off-topic: we need an accent for Moliere

[sosia]

Originally Posted by irmamar

(Off topic)
An interesting link about 'sosia'.

No pienso cambiarme a sosiaS. Como Letizia, si cometí un error lo mantengo

[pjt33]

Originally Posted by sosia

How do I say "Mañana pregunta por mí en la puerta principal/ de entrada"?
Tomorrow please ask for me in the entrance door?

Ya es tarde, lo sé, pero yo cambiaría dos cosas. "Tomorrow please ask for me at the main door."

"Entrance door" me sueña feo, aunque veo en BNC que sí lo dicen algunos.

Si quieres una interpretación más que una traducción, diría "Ask the guard to call me down".

Y en cuanto a lo de nombres en -ia, Vania como nombre masculino es ruso, un diminutivo de Iván.

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by sosia

No pienso cambiarme a sosiaS. Como Letizia, si cometí un error lo mantengo

OK - I'm missing the reference here.