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10 Responses to “LA TIENDA NO TIENE PLÁTANOS”

1. on 11 Sep 2008 at 7:56 am1ejh

   I probably speak it even worse than you do (Orwell refers to his “villainous Spanish”, and that will do as a description) but I think the “los” would be omitted, ¿verdad?

2. on 11 Sep 2008 at 9:26 am2Conor McCabe

   jeje. Si. es verdad. Gracias.

3. on 11 Sep 2008 at 9:47 am3Conor McCabe

   I think I mentioned this before, but there was one time I walked into a tobacconist and said, with the utmost confidence, “Yo quiero una silla”. The man at the counter just stared at me and said, “¿Que?” and then, in English, said “do you want a stamp?” I had gotten silla (chair) and sello (stamp) mixed up in my brain. ugh! Oh well.

4. on 11 Sep 2008 at 11:22 am4Hugh Green

   I once told one of my students that ‘me puedes pagar con un jeque si quieres’, instead of ‘me puedes pagar con un cheque’. That is, you can pay me with a sheikh if you like.

5. on 11 Sep 2008 at 11:27 am5Conor McCabe

   

6. on 11 Sep 2008 at 1:32 pm6Donagh

   That is, you can pay me with a sheikh if you like.
   A rare enough commodity to use as a means of exchange considering how the moors were run out of Spain all those years ago.

   I know, queue drum thump and cymbal crash

7. on 12 Sep 2008 at 10:45 am7Eleena

   Conor, thanks very much for mentioning my blog on yours. Those videos are very funny and I’m glad more people are seeing them and getting a kick out of them. And thanks to everyone for the extra laughs via these comments. The one about the sheikh is a real winner!

8. on 12 Sep 2008 at 11:44 am8Conor McCabe

   Thanks for the comment, Eleena. Big fan of your site, especially the podcasts!

9. on 12 Sep 2008 at 1:18 pm9Seán Báite

   Donagh - don’t ever be surprised of what a former DG of the BBC is capable of getting up to - especially in terms of terms of payment… get the drummer to do his thing again and I’ll get me coat…

10. on 14 Sep 2008 at 10:06 am10Gar

    Non comprendo gli spaghetti westerni e no liko. No un jeque. (Not chique?) I’d better stick to Franglais, hombre.

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