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Old 06-October-2007, 12:48 AM
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It's Hispanic Heritage Month, so here are some Spanish sentences for you to enjoy:
Phil Plait es un scientifico famoso.
Phil Plait is a famous scientist.

No hay una cara en Marte, estupido!
There is not a face on Mars, you ding-dong!

SpaceShipOne esta en el museo Smithsonian en Washington.
SpaceShipOne is in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington.

Estas un cobarde, un mentroso, y un ladron!
You are a coward, a liar...

Followed by:
un moquete
A punch in the face
Keepin' it cultural.
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It's Hispanic Heritage Month, so here are some Spanish sentences for you to enjoy:
Estas un cobarde, un mentroso, y un ladron!
You are a coward, a liar...
Yo pienso que la frase correcta es "eres un cobarde, un mentiroso y un ladrón".
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Phil Plait es un scientífico famoso.
Phil Plait is a famous scientist.

No es una cara en Marte, estúpido!
There is not a face on Mars, you ding-dong!

SpaceShipOne está en el museo Smithsonian en Washington.
SpaceShipOne is in the Smithsonian museum in Washington.

Eres un cobarde, un mentiroso, y un ladrón!
You are a coward, a liar...

Followed by:
un moquete
The names of ships are not translated.
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The names of ships are not translated.
The way it´s written the translation would result in 'SpecialSnowOne'.
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"eres un cobarde, un mentiroso y un ladrón"
You'd have to be really mean to say that, as using the verb ser makes it permanent, rendering the sentence something like "You will always be a liar, a coward..." I'm not that mean, so I used estar.
How do you do accents on this board? Word has the "Symbol" option, but I don't see it here.
And especial can be translated as "special" and "spicy", but un nave especial is "a space ship" or "a rocket ship".

Mas frases!

Hola, me llamo x. Como se llama?
Hello, my name is x. What is your name? (Litterally "What do you call yourself?")

Prende el televisor! Neil Tyson esta en las noticias!
Turn on the TV! Neil Tyson is on the news!
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You'd have to be really mean to say that, as using the verb ser makes it permanent, rendering the sentence something like "You will always be a liar, a coward..." I'm not that mean, so I used estar.
You don't normally use estar with "character" adjectives like "coward", "liar", etc. You could say that character is seen as an essence, rather than a state.
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You did not translate LADRON & Babelfish translated into "English" as ladron (!!!) & my Sp-Eng dictionary is locked up in the attic & if ladron means lazy then that"s me!!! :-)

But I can say what really matters: Buenas tardes, seniorita. Un tequila blanco et una cerveza "Montejo" por favor. (I am mentally in Merida. Montejo beer (is cerveza male of female?) is the best & you could not find it outside Yucatan years ago, maybe some places in Quintana Roo. Come to think of it, it was so good it must be female!!! :-)
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You did not translate LADRON & Babelfish translated into "English" as ladron (!!!) & my Sp-Eng dictionary is locked up in the attic & if ladron means lazy then that"s me!!! :-)
I used Encarta Translation Dictionaries. Ladron with an accent on the "o" translates as theif.
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No es una cara en Marte, estupido!
There is not a face on Mars, you ding-dong!
I've only just noticed this. Strictly speaking, the sentence above does not mean the same as the one below, although the difference is not important. You wrote: "It's not a face on Mars, you fool!"
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'Still works. But you're right- estar is for location, ser is not. I'll edit that.
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'Still works. But you're right- estar is for location, ser is not. I'll edit that.
Sorry, I've just noticed that you originally had está, and I was the one who changed it to es.

The correct sentence, cutting to the chase, is:

ˇNo hay una cara en Marte, estúpido!

Use haber for existence.
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Thank you again. I'm still learning Spanish, and this is a fun way to practice. Any mistakes in my other two sentences? Oh and:

No existen los fantasmas.
Ghosts do not exist.
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"No existen fantasmas." Furthermore, it would be "los fantasmas" since 'fantasma' is masculine.
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With the changes I had made before, the three sentences are correct. No existen fantasmas.
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Gracias, senor. Just fixed it.
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To recap, here's all of the Spanish I've posted.:
Phil Plait es un scientifico famoso.
Phil Plait is a famous scientist.

No hay una cara en Marte, estupido!
There is not a face on Mars, you ding-dong!

SpaceShipOne esta en el museo Smithsonian en Washington.
SpaceShipOne is in the Smithsonian museum in Washington.

Estas un cobarde, un mentroso, y un ladron!
You are a coward, a liar...

un moquete
A punch in the face

No existen fantasmas.
Ghosts do not exist.

Hola, me llamo x. Como se llama?
Hello, my name is x. What is your name? (Litterally "What do you call yourself?")

Prende el televisor! Neil Tyson esta en las noticias!
Turn on the TV! Neil Tyson is on the news!

One more:
La placa de Voyager tiene muchas lenguas.
The Voyager plaque has many languages.
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La placa de Voyager tenga muchos lenguages.

I´d say, La placa de Voyager tiene muchas lenguas. [many tongues]
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....say hello to Fraser, he'd love that!
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Hola, Fraser. Me llamo Kai.
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