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Old September 25, 2009, 12:31 PM
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Get a room

How would you say this in Spanish? I cannot think of any good translations.
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Ay ay ay, por que no buscan una habitación.

BTW How do you say hot sheet motel?
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Well you can say it in a literal way, because you only can use the translation into of the Spanish.

En busca de cuarto.

Poli firstly I need to know. What does sheet mean?

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Well you can say it in a literal way, because you only can use the translation into of the Spanish.

En busca de cuarto.

Poli firstly I need to know. What does sheet mean?

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Sheet means sábana en español.
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It would depend on the context...:
-I will stay he..
-Get a room by yourself...!

-Me quedaré aq...
-¡[Pero] andate a otra/o parte/lado..!
Would be an example.
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It would depend on the context...:
-I will stay he..
-Get a room by yourself...!

-Me quedaré aq...
-¡[Pero] andate a otra/o parte/lado..!
Would be an example.
I meant the get a room one uses when two friends are being overtly romantic in your presence...
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Ay ay ay, por que no buscan una habitación.

BTW How do you say hot sheet motel?
Don't really know. Motel de paso? Motel de mala muerte?
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Hay demasiado amar en el aire esta noche entre vosotros, get a room

No pienso en una buena traducción
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Old September 26, 2009, 09:18 AM
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Hay demasiado amor en el aire esta noche entre vosotros, get a room

No pienso en una buena traducción
Very poetic indeed. I like it.
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Ohh, I see, I see.

"Busquense un cuarto" was the first that came to my mind, obviously to be friendly you need to add something like "porque no..." "¿quieren..." "estaría bueno..."

With people I know and with irony, maybe I would say
"No hay drama eh, si quieren nos tapamos los ojos o los dejamos solos..."
*carraspeo "Me contaron que hay buenos servicios en un hotel de la zona..."

En mi caso diría: "¿Les gusta comer delante de los hambrientos no? ¿Nada para mi?"

But I still think it depends a lot of the situation, it's a expression that you just can't know beforehand, it depends of the place, the people you are going to say it and your relation with them, what are you doing there and what do you think of been too romantic in that kind of situations, your humor, etc.
You can be romantic as bob too, but maybe I'm more cold. A glance would do all the job for me.
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