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Marcar el paso de la oca


poli June 23, 2011 01:31 PM

Marcar el paso de la oca
 
Does anyone know what this means?

aleCcowaN June 23, 2011 01:52 PM

El paso de ganso. La manera prusiana de hacer marchar los soldados en desfile.

Generalmente remite a la idea de totalitarismo o autoritarismo dada su asociación con manifestaciones públicas y masivas de nazismo explícito.

poli June 23, 2011 02:55 PM

OK
This translates directly goose step. I can't believe I couldn't figure this out on my own:o

Luna Azul June 23, 2011 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by poli (Post 112625)
OK
This translates directly goose step. I can't believe I couldn't figure this out on my own:o

That is, if you knew what "oca" means. Not everybody does, even native speakers. Most people call all those birds "gansos".. :p

There's a third word: "ánsar".. did you know it? I learned it by doing crosswords.. haha.

;)

pjt33 June 23, 2011 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Luna Azul (Post 112632)
That is, if you knew what "oca" means. Not everybody does, even native speakers.

In Spain there's a children's game called "el juego de la oca" (which seems to be roughly snakes and ladders - although I'm sure the small child who taught me to play was cheating, so I don't know what the actual rules are) which with a suitably illustrated board gets the vocab across early.

Luna Azul June 23, 2011 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by pjt33 (Post 112634)
In Spain there's a children's game called "el juego de la oca" (which seems to be roughly snakes and ladders - although I'm sure the small child who taught me to play was cheating, so I don't know what the actual rules are) which with a suitably illustrated board gets the vocab across early.

Yes, that's a game and you're right, it's similar to 'snakes and ladders' and has nothing to do with geese.;)


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