Chips

[CrOtALiTo]

Yes, poli the green chips are very delicious, they've a great savor to chile with sal, they are very fed for rthe childrens in my country, they have a good taste for the Sabritas.

[María José]

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

Yes, poli the green chips are very delicious, they've a great savor to chile with sal, they are very fed for rthe childrens in my country, they have a good taste for the Sabritas.

So I assume they are hot and spicy... spicy food.

In England crisps are the ones that come in plastic bags and chips or French fries the ones that you cook at home or get in Burger King... The brandname Pringles is widely used to refer to that kind of crisp sold in a tube.
En España le llamamos a todo patatas fritas y si queremos aclarar,decimos patatas fritas de bolsa. O Pringles....

Computer chip would be just chip here in Spain, the context would make it clear. Remember that very old film starring Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid called Innerspace? Over here it was 'El chip prodigioso'

As for cow chips, I have always heard cow pat or cow pie... but I wouldn't know if they are dry or not... Aquí se dice plasta, pero a mí me suena muy basto.Because I am a lady...

[poli]

Originally Posted by María José

So I assume they are hot and spicy... spicy food.

In England crisps are the ones that come in plastic bags and chips or French fries the ones that you cook at home or get in Burger King... The brandname Pringles is widely used to refer to that kind of crisp sold in a tube.
En España le llamamos a todo patatas fritas y si queremos aclarar,decimos patatas fritas de bolsa. O Pringles....

Computer chip would be just chip here in Spain, the context would make it clear. Remember that very old film starring Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid called Innerspace? Over here it was 'El chip prodigioso'

As for cow chips, I have always heard cow pat or cow pie... but I wouldn't know if they are dry or not... Aquí se dice plasta, pero a mí me suena muy vasto.Because I am a lady...

You may know that on this side of the Atlantic almost nobody says patata. If I'm not mistaking all Latin Americans say papas.
As for that word vasto: Does that mean rude in Spain?

[María José]

Originally Posted by poli

You may know that on this side of the Atlantic almost nobody says patata. If I'm not mistaking all Latin Americans say papas.
As for that word vasto: Does that mean rude in Spain?

I knew the papas thing. One of the few Latin American words I know well.
Basto means rude as you guessed, but it's a rude word in itself, or at least if not rude, the register is very informal. You can also use grosero,which sounds a bit better, and maleducado which, I would say, is the standard term.

[sosia]

Be careful Poli (and Mari Jose )
"vasto" means a very big extension (vast) "llegamos a la vasta llanura"
"basto" means rude, but can be a person (grosero)
"ese hombre era muy basto, se limpiaba los pies en el tren"
or a surface finish(rough, coarse )
"El acabado del mueble de madera era muy basto, no estaba lijado"
"basto" is also a spanish card suit
"Oros, copas, espadas y bastos" instead of "Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs"

greetings

[María José]

Originally Posted by sosia

Be careful Poli (and Mari Jose )
"vasto" means a very big extension (vast) "llegamos a la vasta llanura"
"basto" means rude, but can be a person (grosero)
"ese hombre era muy basto, se limpiaba los pies en el tren"
or a surface finish(rough, coarse )
"El acabado del mueble de madera era muy basto, no estaba lijado"
"basto" is also a spanish card suit
"Oros, copas, espadas y bastos" instead of "Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs"

greetings

Una imagen vale más que mil palabras...Y esta vez he activado mi corrector de español.

[poli]

Thanks María and Sosia

[María José]

You're welcome. I'll never make that mistake again ( basto= rude, rough). The words between brackets are for my own benefit, to help retrain my old brain cells.

[CrOtALiTo]

Mary, the word vasto is the first time I've heard that, I think what the word has a expression very rude itself context, I think what that word isn't like to the other word used in my contry Sabritas, it' sound more common and nature and a little less ugly, now the word vasto seems a name of a playing cards or pocker, such is named a of the cards, in the same playing, I tell you because I've played that game, whatever that word sound bad or vulgar in itself letters ( I don't know, Why exist a lot words in our vacabulary that are very uglies as Vasto)

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by María José

As for cow chips, I have always heard cow pat or cow pie... but I wouldn't know if they are dry or not... Aquí se dice plasta, pero a mí me suena muy vasto.Because I am a lady...

I think a cow pie would be still wet and cow chips are after they dry. A hundred years ago, people collected cow chips to burn.