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Old March 03, 2010, 02:02 AM
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Yes, but nowadays a "moto" is bigger than a "motocicleta".



Aparte de polio (de poliomielitis), disco (de discoteca) y radio (que no sé si viene de radiodifusión o de radiotelefonía), no se me ocurren más . He oído alguna vez "eco" de ecografía, pero no de forma habitual (como foto o moto, por ejemplo, que sí son habituales).
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Vamonos a la disco !
¡Pero cuidado si vas a un club!
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Old March 03, 2010, 10:23 AM
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Old March 04, 2010, 12:11 AM
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I don't think bob understands
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I don't think bob understands
Sí no entiendo :confuse:

But careful if you go to a club..)?
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Old March 04, 2010, 12:17 AM
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Do you understand, Bob?

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Of course there are another kind of clubs.
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Sí no entiendo :confuse:

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Of course there are another kind of clubs.
Yes, very special clubs
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Vamonos a la disco !
En España todo el mundo va a la pelis,¿verdad?
y algunos llegan al cine en las bicis
o si faltan dinero miran a las pelis en la tele.

Y para escribir ¿no usan los bolisPerdone pero a mi me suena raro.
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En México también recortamos las palabras:

"Bici" -> "bicicleta"
"Tele" -> "televisión"
"Moto" -> "motocicleta"
"Disco" -> "discoteca"
"Auto" -> "automóvil"
"Compu" -> "computadora"
"Peli" -> "película" (but mostly used to talk to children)
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...y no es raro en absoluto; en realidad es lo más natural.


Btw, we don't use "boli" for "bolígrafo", because we use "pluma", which is already a short word.
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Old March 04, 2010, 08:48 AM
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En México también recortamos las palabras:

"Bici" -> "bicicleta"
"Tele" -> "televisión"
"Moto" -> "motocicleta"
"Disco" -> "discoteca"
"Auto" -> "automóvil"
"Compu" -> "computadora"
"Peli" -> "película" (but mostly used to talk to children)
.
.
.

...y no es raro en absoluto; en realidad es lo más natural.


Btw, we don't use "boli" for "bolígrafo", because we use "pluma", which is already a short word.
We do in Spain
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Isn't it words of Greek origin that end in "-a" but are masculine: problema, tema, drama, programa, mapa, and planeta. ??

Edit: add more: idioma, telegrama, clima, poeta, profeta, cometa, systema, lema

??
El castellano no posee género neutro para los sustantivos, de manera que casi todos los sustantivos españoles de procedencia griega y terminados en –ma que son de género neutro en griego, son por convención de género masculino en español: lema, tema, sistema, idioma, problema, axioma, teorema, dilema, exema, carcinoma, carisma, drama, planeta, etc.

Excepciones: el/la aneurisma, el/la enzima, la apostema, la apotema, la diadema.
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El castellano no posee género neutro para los sustantivos, de manera que casi todos los sustantivos españoles de procedencia griega y terminados en –ma que son de género neutro en griego, son por convención de género masculino en español: lema, tema, sistema, idioma, problema, axioma, teorema, dilema, exema, carcinoma, carisma, drama, planeta, etc.

Excepciones: el/la aneurisma, el/la enzima, la apostema, la apotema, la diadema.
La diadema te la vamos a poner a ti (en lugar de corona).
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Old March 05, 2010, 02:30 AM
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I was cheating - I stole the above from elsewhere.
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Old March 05, 2010, 04:52 AM
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I was cheating - I stole the above from elsewhere.
But somebody has to make the search.
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Well done Irmamar, I've racked my brain for ages over the anomaly of la mano! I had read somewhere that it was to avoid having two stressed 'A's together that it was changed to el agua, but 'la mano' baffled me!
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