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I have mentioned that I am using videos from http://www.laits.utexas.edu/spe/index.html to help me with my listening comprehension. Most of the videos come with a Spanish transcription, and an English translation.
In the video I've just been listening to, about purchasing clothing, the following were given for the last sentence given by the speaker as the Spanish transcription and the English translation: Spanish: Nadie le va a dar un premio por pasar un examen, pero comprarse un regalito a ninguna persona le viene mal, ¿no? English: No one is going to give you a reward for passing an exam, but buying yourself a gift, who doesn't like that, right? I get the first part, I'm not so sure I follow. - "comprarse"? Does using "se" with "comprar" make it something that one does to oneself? So if I buy myself a gift, I say "me compro un regalo"? Etc.? - "a nunguna person le viene mal"?? This is the part that I really don't get. Does that really translate to (roughly) "who doesn't like that"? Thanks!
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Me viene bien recibir mucha nueva gente - It suits me well to go out and meet new people Te viene bien hablar en el español y mudarte al Ecuador - it suits you well to speak spanish andmove to Ecuador A los gatitos les vienen mal jugar los perros grandes - IT doesn´t suit the kittens to play with those big dogs. Un poquito más de aquí http://spanish.about.com/od/usingpar...bs/a/venir.htm Quote:
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So basically what Bob said about "venirse + bien/mal" has to do with suiting or not suiting one.
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A figure of speech in which an affirmative is expressed as the negative of the contrary.
If you taste something and you say "Hmmm - that's not bad", you really mean "that's good". So that's bad for nobody = that's good for everybody but this seems tricky in Spanish because a double negative is hardly ever a positive. Unmathematical. |
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Well, in some ways unmathematical, but you can always have ~(~A). I teach mostly beginning Algebra. My students often struggle with what to do with "-x" when "x<0". I have run out of ways to explain it to them, because it is SO obvious to me......
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Bob and Perikles are correct.
"a ninguna persona le viene mal" means that is not unsuitable to anyone, it isn't unwelcome by anyone. |
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You are welcome. The word is not unknown () to crossword compilers, because it is an anagram of toilets, with plenty of scope for baffling clues.
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Sí. Pero es un poco complicado, porque comprar + objeto directo + objeto indirecto puede significar dos cosas distintas: el objeto indirecto puede ser la persona para quien compras el objeto directo, o la persona de quien la compras. Me parece que en general se puede deducir del contexto de cuál se trata, pero si alguien tiene algunas normas para estar seguro me gustaría saberlas.
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