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jibberjabber
October 25, 2013, 08:14 AM
I'm wondering about the distributive property of prepositions and pronouns with the word "o". (I suppose it applies to "y" as well.)

Let's take this sentence:

Si en tu cuadra, en tu barrio, en tu unidad o en tu universidad están organizando algún evento y quieres que la ciudad lo sepa, cuéntanos.

I'd like to omit the second, third, and fourth iterations of the word "en" in this sentence, like so:

Si en tu cuadra, tu barrio, tu unidad o tu universidad están organizando algún evento y quieres que la ciudad lo sepa, cuéntanos.

Can I do that?

Further, can I omit the second, third, and fourth iterations of the word "tu?

Si en tu cuadra, barrio, unidad o universidad están organizando algún evento y quieres que la ciudad lo sepa, cuéntanos.

Thanks in advance!

aleCcowaN
October 25, 2013, 09:50 AM
Si en tu cuadra, barrio, unidad o universidad están organizando algún evento y quieres que la ciudad lo sepa, cuéntanos.


This is the way to say it. Spanish hate redundancies. I would rather use "se está". Not sure what you mean by "unidad" because in that context it only sounds military to me.

jibberjabber
October 25, 2013, 09:58 AM
Thank you for your reply.

I saw the long version of the sentence on the front page of a Spanish-language daily. I often see and hear such redundancies, and to me they sound ugly. I think the only good use for such repetition is emphasis.

AngelicaDeAlquezar
October 25, 2013, 11:02 AM
"Unidad" here must be an "unidad habitacional"; these are usually closed clusters of houses or appartment buildings. That's how it is understood in Mexico anyway.