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Different Countries' names for their public lavatories - Page 2


conejodescarado March 13, 2011 09:29 PM

Gracias por las correcciones, Sancho Panther :)

¿Puedo preguntarte una pregunta?

Si hago errores o digo algo incorrecto.... Me repito, ¿no? :)

Quería expresar "if I say anything odd", significando "if I choose words that make it strikingly obvious that I'm not a native speaker".

Sancho Panther March 15, 2011 10:59 AM

Cheekybunny - your magnanimity does you enormous credit! I must confess I get a bit irritated at corrections - especially if I'm not a hundred per-cent convinced that they're justified!

AngelicaDeAlquezar March 15, 2011 11:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by conejodescarado (Post 107548)
¿Puedo preguntarte una pregunta?

Spanish speakers tend to be very touchy about what we see as pleonasms and repetition of sounds, so we wouldn't say things like "preguntar una pregunta", "soñar un sueño", etc, but "hacer una pregunta", "tener un sueño"... :)

conejodescarado March 15, 2011 04:18 PM

Thanks to both of you :) Unless you're specifically aiming to insult me, you're not going to insult me, so don't apologise for pointing out errors etc ;) I need people to do that if I'm to avoid bad habits :)

Incidentally, even if somebody did directly insult me, I'd just fail to respond :p


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