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Reloj
This is a discussion thread for the Daily Spanish Word for May 14, 2008
reloj -masculine noun (el), clock, watch. Look up reloj in the dictionary Algunos dicen que las mujeres deben usar el reloj en la mano derecha y los hombres en la mano izquierda. Some people say that women should wear their watch on their right wrist and men on their left wrist.
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You've reminded me of another word I find really beautiful:hourglass.
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I've always appreciated the word reloj because it has its own look and sound. I don't know if I've ever bumped into a rhyming word. Like orange. Native speakers, any suggestions?
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Another interesting thing to note about the word reloj is that it is very common to pronounce it as reló, leaving off the j. Of course in the plural it would still be relojes.
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boj - a bush of some sort troj - bin? DRAE: acepción 1a, F. Espacio limitado por tabiques, para guardar frutos y especialmente cereales. Even though the DRAE says this word is feminine, everyone on the Internet says un troj. |
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Awhile ago, I noticed that Spanish can rhyme internally too. So, in a rhyme reloj can match with hoja, ojo, ojala, mojo, etc. It's easier to sound poetic in Spanish than it is in English. I'm not much good at being a poet, but I can make things
rhyme in Spanish. El reloj se mojó. Last edited by poli; May 14, 2008 at 11:13 AM. |
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I Know one "OJ simpson"
I can only thing of "boj", an perhaps "dos" saludos |
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Sosia, I find your last example of dos to be most interesting because I only recently noticed that the way S is pronounced in many dialects is much breathier than I had believed, much closer to the sound of J. This has helped me to understand the way the S in words like mismo and triste tends to almost disappear behind the second consonant.
And I didn't know the word boj, but now I have a rhyme. Thank you very much. Last edited by gatitoverde; May 14, 2008 at 12:58 PM. |
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an example:
Jícara, dicara, boj, un ratón trepó al reloj. El reloj marcó la una. El ratón gritó: - ¡Aceituna! Y del susto se cayó. -¡Jícara, dicara, boj! - cantó el cuco del reloj. The nexts one is for gatitoverde (¿How can I say "dedicada a gatitoverde"?) A la una, sale la Luna. A las dos, suena el reloj. A las tres, bajito es. A las cuatro, doy un salto. A las cinco, doy un brinco. A la seis, no me ves. A las siete, anda, vete. A las ocho, ten bizcocho. A las nueve, toma nieve. Y a las diez, otra vez. saludos |
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