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Alex's Trip 11.06.2006 12:02 AM

Spanish help!
 
How do you say "I didn't like the music"

I forgot the past tense version of Like.

youthoftomorrow 11.06.2006 12:07 AM

www.freetranslation.com

Alex's Trip 11.06.2006 12:10 AM

doesn't work...I tried. It says I did not want the music.

youthoftomorrow 11.06.2006 12:15 AM

oh. shit.

Alex's Trip 11.06.2006 12:19 AM

I just said something else instead. (I was writing an essay, it sucks.)

youthoftomorrow 11.06.2006 12:24 AM

i've been taking Spanish since the first grade. i'm a senior this year and i was fucking sick of it. so now i'm in Latin 1. it's my easiest class.

Alex's Trip 11.06.2006 12:29 AM

I'm in Spanish II. My teacher is really annoying. He is an okay teacher, just really annoying.

noisemachine 11.06.2006 12:44 AM

Damn, its amazing what not speaking a language for 3-4 years will do to your knowledge. I took Spanish classes for 5 years throughout middle school and high school and got pretty decent and speaking and understanding. And now I can't remember shit. I wish I would have kept up with it.

static-harmony 11.06.2006 05:03 AM

No me gusrta la pinche musica.

(ignore the italic word.)

!@#$%! 11.06.2006 01:20 PM

no me gustO la mUsica, pendejo

the capitalized ones take accents but typing them on my laptop is a royal pain

and anyone who contradicts me can kiss my hairy latino ass :p

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ps- just saw snake got it right

Prisstina 11.06.2006 04:31 PM

Try Google Translator next time.

!@#$%! 11.06.2006 04:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Prisstina
Try Google Translator next time.


no, no! avoid that-- machine translation is awful. i used to teach translation and you can always spot the crap that comes out of a computer brain. in fact, i still use machine translations for my own amusement-- you can get some of the most hilarious crap by inputting random strings of text. idioms seem to be the best at wreaking havoc with "artificial intelligence".

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ps: even with a simple sentence like the one posted here, the atrocious result is:

"no tuve gusto de la música"

WTF? tener gusto??? who speaks like that??

!@#$%! 11.06.2006 04:39 PM

more hilarity:

chinga tu madre (fuck your mother) = chinga your mother
cria cuervos y te sacaran los ojos (raise crows and they'll pluck out your eyes) =
it raises crows and they removed the eyes to you

me pica un huevo (my --left/right--ball itches /i got a ball itch) =
it pricks an egg to me

etc...

Prisstina 11.06.2006 04:44 PM

Eh, I use it for French. Seems to be accurate 98% of the time.

!@#$%! 11.06.2006 04:46 PM

pedazo the idiota (literally "piece of idiot" like "piece of shit", meaning , idiot, but expressed something like frech "espece de con") = stupid piece the
te apesta el sobaco (your armpit stinks) = it stinks out the armpit to you

really? french? let me try...

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god damn it works...! maybe the spanish module is not yet fully developed...

!@#$%! 11.06.2006 04:54 PM

hm, i tried some voltaire translations--

from candide--

Il y avait en Westphalie, dans le château de M. le baron de Thunder-ten-tronckh, un jeune garçon à qui la nature avait donné les moeurs les plus douces. =
There was in Westphalia, in the castle of Mr. the baron de Thunder-ten-tronckh, a young boy to whom it natural had given the softest manners.

("it natural"? but it's comprehensible for the most part...)

however when it comes to poetry it fucks up royally-- behold:

Vous m'ordonnez de célébrer des saints :
Ma voix est faible, et même un peu profane.
Il faut pourtant vous chanter cette Jeanne
Qui fit, dit-on, des prodiges divins.
Elle affermit, de ses pucelles mains,
Des fleurs de lys la tige gallicane,
Sauva son roi de la rage anglicane,
Et le fit oindre au maître-autel de Reims.

You order to me to celebrate saints: My voice is weak, and even a little layman. You however should be sung this Jeanne Who made, says one, of the divine wonders. It strengthens, of its virgins hands, Flowers of lily the stem gallicane, Saved its king of the rage Anglican, And oindre with the high altar of Rheims did it.

sounds like yoda, or nostradamus... but it conveys some ideas...

Jico 11.06.2006 04:58 PM

ha ha ha
Quote:

pedazo the idiota

Prisstina 11.06.2006 04:59 PM

Like English, there are always alternate ways to say things in French (or any other language for that matter.) My boyfriend and I both take French classes at different schools and he's learning a whole set of different phrases than I am for the same meanings.

!@#$%! 11.06.2006 05:11 PM

oh yeah-- don't ever bring your teacher/TA a google translation though... nothing is better at handling language than a human brain... it's not just about the different expressions, but computers don't really "get" syntax....

!@#$%! 11.06.2006 05:19 PM

oy, wait a second...


"je m'en fous", aka "i don't give a fuck", comes out of google as "I of insane"

hee hee...

Everyneurotic 11.06.2006 07:50 PM

you can use my one catchphrase for all shitty bands here:

tu banda me vale madres (i don't give a shit about your band).

cryptowonderdruginvogue 11.06.2006 07:51 PM

no me gusto la musica, y soy un joto

cryptowonderdruginvogue 11.06.2006 07:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Everyneurotic
you can use my one catchphrase for all shitty bands here:

tu banda me vale madres (i don't give a shit about your band).


*no vale madres

it sounds better.

Everyneurotic 11.06.2006 07:57 PM

ok, vale pa' puro pito, is that better?

cryptowonderdruginvogue 11.06.2006 08:33 PM

hahaha, yes, actually

!@#$%! 11.07.2006 03:53 PM

puto

Jico 11.07.2006 03:54 PM

como e meu puto?

static-harmony 11.07.2006 04:31 PM

say, estas bandas no saben tocar los instrumentos, come saben tocar sus vergas.

Everyneurotic 11.07.2006 07:39 PM

are you trying to say "this bands bands know how to play their dicks better than their instruments" or "this bands don't know how to play their instruments, unlike their dicks"?

!@#$%! 11.07.2006 07:59 PM

dijo "come" , so i think he meant "they eat dicks"

as for "saben", maybe he was talking about the flavor.

Everyneurotic 11.07.2006 08:08 PM

i think that's a stretch "come saben" means "eat taste"; so it would read "eat taste touch (or play) their dicks"

!@#$%! 11.07.2006 08:11 PM

ha ha

estaba diciendo puras chingaderas... como dice la cita en tu firma:

you have to realize that there's a point where our only purpose in posting stuff is for people to keep embarrasing themselves.



Everyneurotic 11.07.2006 08:15 PM

sigue chingando y te voy a partir la madre!!

(just kidding my good man!)

!@#$%! 11.07.2006 08:16 PM

yeah, you give it a try... :D

Everyneurotic 11.07.2006 08:20 PM

that's what your mom said...i declined, i'm not that brave!

Alex's Trip 11.07.2006 08:21 PM

I got a C on the essay I wrote. Haha. I do really well on the tests though, so I still have an A in the class.

!@#$%! 11.07.2006 08:27 PM

hey, pinche alex.

try to think of "gustar" like the english verb "disgust"

they mean the opposite, but work the same way.

cryptowonderdruginvogue 11.08.2006 12:59 AM

some of y'all speak really bad spanish

static-harmony 11.08.2006 05:00 AM

Hey don't hate on my spanish. My spanish is better than most people who are born here in America.


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