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(38,532 posts)Thinking this is too easy!
monmouth4
(9,709 posts)rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)wtf?
azmom
(5,208 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)So, were going to have to be frank and tell those of you who dont speak Spanish that what Cruz said was the kind of grammatically unorthodox thing you might say when flustered, when non-fluent and or when trying intentionally to sound tough. We cant say for sure which of those three really dominated Cruzs response here. Only Cruz really knows.
What that Cruz-Rubio He doesnt speak Spanish thing was about
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/14/what-that-cruz-rubio-he-doesnt-speak-spanish-thing-was-about/
azmom
(5,208 posts)phylny
(8,386 posts)"díselo" shows me he at least speaks Spanish fairly well because otherwise, I'd expect to hear something along the lines of, "sabe que hablo español" or the more familiar, "sabes que hablo español" which is much more simplistic (You know that I speak Spanish).
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)lo si en to, no habla espanol
which is a little bit ironic. I can say the same phrase in Bengali as well. Ami jahni Bangla na. or "I don't know Bengali."
"Lo siento, no hablo español."
And you win, because I cannot say a phrase that means, "I don't speak/know" in any other language Pero, hablo español un poco.
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)hablo instead of habla? Or does it sound like habla? Or like abla?
I don't know how to spell it, only say it. I used to think it was just one word lociento.
That phrase, of course, I learned from a radio ad I heard in the 1990s. It was trying to sell a "learn Spanish course" where they taught you to remember that "I am sorry" is something you say when you feel low, so low you can see into your toe, and mnemonic tricks like that.
I also don't know how to type the squiggly n. Or I don't feel like switching to international keyboard.
phylny
(8,386 posts)understand, no snark.
The difference is "hablo" means "I speak" and "habla" means he, she, or it speaks.
And still you have me beat
phylny
(8,386 posts)the familiar "Tu" instead of "Usted."
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)phylny
(8,386 posts)Marco tiene sed.
Iggo
(47,565 posts)Know'm say'n?
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)what John Candy said in the movie Splash.
olddots
(10,237 posts)had better writers and much better hair .