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Alfonso Octoglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 6864 days ago 511 posts - 536 votes Speaks: Biblical Hebrew, Spanish*, French, English, Tzotzil, Italian, Portuguese, Ancient Greek Studies: Nahuatl, Tzeltal, German
| Message 25 of 28 06 July 2006 at 10:08pm | IP Logged |
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Alfonso, these are great expressions, definitely export-grade! Are these mexicanismos? |
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The first one maybe not, but the second one is surely a "mexicanismo".
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Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6706 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map
| Message 26 of 28 25 July 2006 at 6:40am | IP Logged |
Danish:
Det koster en bondegård
(it costs a farm)
and a really weird one:
Det koster det hvide ud af øjnene
(It costs the white out of your eyes)
Edited by Iversen on 13 August 2006 at 11:49am
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7018 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map
| Message 27 of 28 25 July 2006 at 11:23am | IP Logged |
Iversen wrote:
and a really weird one:
Det koster det hvide ud af øjnene
(It costs the white out of your eyes) |
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That is weird!
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| AML Senior Member United States Joined 6828 days ago 323 posts - 426 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, German, Spanish
| Message 28 of 28 28 July 2006 at 11:23am | IP Logged |
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I love the English expression He bought the
company for a song (He bought it for very little money). |
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Is that British English? Because I've never heard that expression before.
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