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Lo (que es) fácil
Sigh....
There are some things that are so difficult for me to understand, and I would bet that they are easy ... yet they escape me...... About a month ago, we had the following discussion about the sentence "see how easy this is": http://forums.tomisimo.org/showthread.php?t=9876 - I'm specifically looking at the discussion about #10 and the use of "lo fácil". I didn't really understand it then, but dropped it, hoping to understand it some day. Now I'm doing another exercise in my workbook. The chapter/section is about relative pronouns, specifically the use of "lo que" and "lo cual". They have the following sentence and translation: English: Students want what is easy. Translation: Los estudiantes quieren lo fácil. I thought it should have been "lo que es fácil". (Especially given that every single other sentence in the three sets of exercises in this section use "lo que" or "lo cual".) Is "lo que es fácil" acceptable? Or does it sound strange? I'm still stuck on this concept...........
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Lo que es fácil = lo fácil.
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Used in these forms... What = lo/lo que Which = lo cual |
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I would say "Look how easy it is" is best expressed as <¡mira lo fácil que es!>.
<Lo que es fácil> comes over more as "That which is easy" - <él siempre hace lo que es fácil> |
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Sancho - in the other thread (which is about "lo fácil ....", not this one), I was told that the verb only comes at the end of the sentence to sound poetic. ???
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We may well be seeing differences in Latin American and European (or correct) Spanish here!
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That's like saying that there are differences between British English and US English, and that British English is the correct English.
By the way, I am mostly interested in learning Latin American Spanish.
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Is there something wrong with that? :P
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I claim that by definition, English English is correct English. Do you have a problem with that?
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