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Old November 21, 2012, 08:14 PM
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Question Rock

You rock!

Yes, I understand that in English, when someone tells me so...
(¡Modesto, baja!)

But how do you say it in Spanish?

In Castilian I could say,

¡Eres chipocludo! (as an euphemism, for "coj*nudo")

But doesn't seem to fully match, as the English is communicating a "doingness", I.e., the action of rocking, as in doing swell, extremely well, extremely helpful and so on...

"Eres la h*stia de guay"
"Eres chévere/chachi/de p*ta madre" or expressions like that come to mind, but is it there a verbal expression in Spanish?

If you come up with something good and usual in Spanish, you will rock!

No kidding!

(Any ideas always welcome!)
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Old November 21, 2012, 11:16 PM
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Eres lo máximo Batman. (Robin)

Eres de lo más que hay.

Eres super.

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Old November 22, 2012, 12:39 PM
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¿Chipocludo? (Habría jurado que eso sólo se entendía en México.)

Eres la neta. (Más slang mexicano)


Aparte de lo obvio "eres genial/maravilloso/magnífico/fabuloso...", creo que sin usar mexicanismos, yo diría algo del tipo "eres lo máximo" (y con mexicanismo, "eres lo más máximo).
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Old November 22, 2012, 08:57 PM
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Sorry guys, but honestly I've heard various conjugations of the Spangish verb roquear. I would like to know if this is strictly a USA phenomonon. Pablo, haven't you heard this in LA?
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Old November 23, 2012, 12:50 AM
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Aquí se oye «Eres un crack».
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Old November 23, 2012, 11:29 AM
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@Poli: In Mexico, "roquear" is only used for rock music: to make it, to play it, to hear it, to attend a concert...
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Old November 23, 2012, 12:06 PM
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Gracias a todos, ¡son todos unos cracks!
¡Chipocludos!

(En LA he visto cosas escritas y he oído cosas que me han "tirao patrás"... pero supongo que tampoco me puedo "rasgar las vestiduras" porque alguien "roquee"...

Un grupo musical argentino, hace tiempo tenía una letra de una canción que decía algo como "cuando estás rockanroleando eres la reina del lugar" (o algo así) que sería algo como "bailar rock n'roll"...
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