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This is a discussion thread for the Daily Spanish Word for May 18, 2008
palo -masculine noun (el), stick, pole, club, staff. Look up palo in the dictionary En una historia de piratas, no puede faltar el pirata de la pata de palo. You can't have a pirate story without at least one pirate with a pegleg.
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Algunos usos figurados de palo en España:
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¡Gracias Alfonso! Those are great examples; some of those uses I had never heard before.
Another important use of palo in the Americas is as a synonym of tree.
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¿Qué es un palo de flamenco?
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Let me try translating these sentences to see if I fully understand their meaning. These by no means are perfect or even correct translations. Help me out guys
¿45 euros? ¡Vaya palo! 45 Euros? What a ripoff/That's too expensive! Fue un palo enorme. Iban a casarse y se quedó sin novia. What a failure! They were going to get married, and she left him. No oigo más que críticas. No hago más que recibir palos de un lado y otro. I hear nothing but criticism, everyone's constantly coming at me from all sides. Me cayeron palos de todas partes. Tengo la espalda señalada. People are coming at me from all sides. I'm a marked man. No quiero ir a esa fiesta. No conozco a nadie. Me da palo. I don't want to go to the party. I don't know anyone there. I couldn't care less. La baraja española tiene cuatro palos: oros, copas, espadas y bastos. Spanish cards have four suits: oros, copas, espadas y bastos. Las bulerías es el palo del flamenco que más me gusta. The bulerías is the branch/style of flamenco I like the most.
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David,
Me da palo means you don't dare to, you are not brave enough to go on your own. Fue un palo enorme means he was greatly disappointed. Thanks for explaining palo de flamenco.
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Thanks for the explanations Alfonso! And thanks to you Iris too! Let me try my translations again.
Fue un palo enorme. Iban a casarse y se quedó sin novia. What a failure! They were going to get married, and she left him. (un palo significa aquí un golpe moral, una decepción, un suceso desagradable. I'm not sure if a failure would be a good translation for this nuance). It was a huge disappointment/It was a big letdown. They were going to get married and she left him. Me cayeron palos de todas partes. Tengo la espalda señalada. People are coming at me from all sides. I'm a marked man. (recibir palos en sentido físico, ser apaleado, golpeado, por eso tengo la espalda marcada). I can't really think of a good translation for this. Maybe: People started hitting me from all sides. I'm a marked man. No quiero ir a esa fiesta. No conozco a nadie. Me da palo. I don't want to go to the party. I don't know anyone there. I couldn't care less. (me da palo significa que me da pereza, vergüenza o una mezcla de ambas. Es una expresión muy coloquial y juvenil. I think to translate this you need a slang expression). Hmmm... I can't think of a good translation for this either. I don't want to go to the party. I won't know anyone there and I'll feel totally out of place.
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Me da palo seems similar to the way I have heard Latin Americans say
me da pena. I have also heard que pena instead of que lástima. Quisiera saber si cuando se usa pena así se entiende. Last edited by poli; May 19, 2008 at 09:08 AM. |
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