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Posted: Tue Oct 30th, 2007 11:30 am |
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a principios de (ah preen-sée-pee-ohs deh)
at the beginning of (adverbial expression)
Example: A principios de abril ganamos dinero en la Bolsa.
Translation: At the beginning of April we made money in the stock exchange.
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Posted: Tue Oct 30th, 2007 07:42 pm |
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| With my 401K, how do you say freefall?
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Posted: Tue Oct 30th, 2007 07:45 pm |
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| va a Culebra ahora. (oh goodness, I know one of our helpful native Spanish speakers is gonna correct me on that mutation of their beautiful language)....
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Posted: Tue Oct 30th, 2007 08:39 pm |
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| freefal is de caida. Now a local expression is al garete, very common.
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Abe Ross
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Posted: Tue Oct 30th, 2007 10:16 pm |
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Seems to me that these words are bass ackward. How come we started with "end" (a fin) and then went to "beginning" (a principio). Y que quiere decir "al garete"?
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Posted: Wed Oct 31st, 2007 11:02 am |
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| "al garete" means "without control"
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Posted: Wed Oct 31st, 2007 11:31 am |
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| Oh I love that new phrase -- it sums up my life!!! I'll be using that one a lot!
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