English Language

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Originally Posted by donKey jote

sure you do: "un par de zapatos" is different to simply saying "zapatos"
just like "un par de coj..." is different to saying "coj...!" :p

one thing you wouldn't normally hear in Spanish (unless you're a cricket), however, is "quién es el que anda aquí ?", you just say "quién anda por aquí ?" :)

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Well Spanish is my second language and I've never heard my wife in 10 years of marriage say "un par de zapatos" :p (and she has a lot of shoes!), but then I can't say we've spent a lot of time talking about linguistics either. :D By the way, did I mention we're expecting again.

Shoes as a thing makes sense to have a pair of, but even as a native English speaker I marvel at the utter stupidity of "a pair of pants" or "a pair of scissors". I ask you, how many people are ever likely to buy one pant or one scissor?

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Originally Posted by Alexamateo

Well Spanish is my second language and I've never heard my wife in 10 years of marriage say "un par de zapatos" :p (and she has a lot of shoes!), but then I can't say we've spent a lot of time talking about linguistics either. :D By the way, did I mention we're expecting again.

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You're expecting the Spanish Inquisition?

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Originally Posted by Eki

You're expecting the Spanish Inquisition?

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Well with the morning sickness and nausea, she would say it feels like torture. :D

I had an associate from Mexico that was was fairly competant in (American) English.
What used to drive him crazy was how many words there were that had more than one meaning.
Here is a short list:

ball
bank
bark
bat
bend
bowl
can
case
check
date
drop
face
fair
fan
file
fly
grave
hide
jam
kind
light
like
line
mean
mine
miss
order
pen
play
point
present
press
rare
ring
roll
rose
run
second
ship
sink
star
stick
story
tire
trip
vault
watch
well
yard :rolleyes: :)

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Originally Posted by donKey jote

I think, but to be honest, I use the "yy" form for both: Sebiya and Biya :p

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Now I'm really confused. So the V in Sevilla is correctly pronounced B......

Yes v and b are pronounced the same, as a /b/

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Originally Posted by Donney

Yes v and b are pronounced the same, as a /b/

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Always or on certain conditions?

Here's an interesting site that has sound sample's of different accents and dialects in Britain:

http://sounds.bl.uk/BrowseCategory.a...s-and-dialects

Accents vary much even in a small area. Here are two samples from Oxfordshire, I understand the second one much more easily than the first one:

http://sounds.bl.uk/View.aspx?item=0...77X-0300V0.xml
http://sounds.bl.uk/View.aspx?item=0...56X-0500V0.xml