¿Helado o hielo? - Page 2

You're right - a joke loses it's "funny" if it is explained. :)

You know how I feel about the diminutives. I'm still trying to be okay with the sound of them.

Another question that I have about them is this: If someone writes something with a diminutive ending, I am having a GREAT difficulty figuring out what the word is WITHOUT the diminutive ending so that I can look up the meaning. For example, from your words given in the example, "yelito". So I get rid of "-ito" and it becomes ... what? Yele? Yelo? Neither of those words are in the Tomisimo dictionary. How do I figure out what word the diminutive stands for????

Aha! :-)

that was a little joke for Angelique ( I feel french today) :-)

The word hielo gets to be pronounced as "géhl-awe" your phonetics now. :-)

@Hernán: so we do, but mixing many diminutives in one sentence is not socially accepted. So "agüita" and "yelitos" don't fit together. ;)

Yes.

Oh, you would die laughing at us then. Like I mentioned before, everything is in diminutive that even to us is funny, and we do it on purpose, just to laugh at ourselves! :D

If it's socially unacceptable, then does that mean that "el mundito de Luanita" is "out"? :(

By the way - did you see the conversation in a different thread about the differences between British English and American English? It's the one about "andar o caminar"....

No, it ain't. Not in my world. :D

Oh no... the use of many diminutives in one sentence sounds childish. But it has nothing to do with the use of them just for fun. A little exaggeration on their use can be also nice for an affectionate expression... like in this case. ;)



Yes, I've been following it. Rusty's comments are very interesting... I might take a closer look to some details. :rose:

¡Me gusta! Necesito pelar a mi novia a pide 'agua sin vaso' cuando nosotros vamos al restaurante. :)

Necesitas tomarle el pelo a tu novia. Estoy seguro de que ella no aguantará lo de pelarla.
:eek::blackeye:

Lo siento, no compredo.

Agua altiempo!!!:good::yuck:
sin hielo.....
un agua fresca.

In Mexican slang, (and I don't know about elsewhere), "pelar" can be used as a synonym for "to pay attention to".

Entré y nadie me peló. = I came in and nobody even noticed.
No la peles. = Just ignore her.

tomar el pelo, take my feet !!
it isn´t like into spanish,
she took my hair: ella me tomó el pelo,
but in english , I think it is different, she took me feet!!
Am I right? *_*

I've never heard this before. Thanks!

Have a look at the link in the post. It takes you to the meaning of the phrase in English.

@Fazor, I was correcting your use of pelar. I believe you meant 'pull her leg' and I provided you with the idiomatic expression (and a link to it).

pelar = to peel, strip the skin off, pluck the feathers off, strip

ohh!!! yes, you´re right!!!! ok anyway thanks*:) (¨*_*¨)

Right. Before anyone tries the slang usage I mentioned, they should be well aware of the literal meaning and the fact that they could easily be misunderstood.

pelar en chile means to gossip. To talk about someone, at his/her back.

I was confused by pelar (there were probably a half-dozen + words that come up when you search for "trick" in the dictionary). But I saw that under "pelar" they had peel, skin, etc.

So I wasn't sure if pelar was an idiom or what. Now I know. :)

It just depends on how you use it. :)