And Just One More

To celebrate the end of school, its time for one more session of precious spanish class memories.

Sample sentances showing our brilliance in Spanish

I fell in love with that girl because she has a car

You look grated

We had some heavy use of a word meaning "dead body":

You look like a dead person because you are skinny

I got happy because I don't have to see a dead person

It's going to be great when the dead person in my mom

To sleep means to shut your eyes and dream of someone sexy

I became poor after I hunted my life

Michael Jackson turned himself into a ghost

When I arrived in Ecuador, I turned into a drunken woman (said by a man)

While in the forest, they stumbled upon, accidentally, some people from the FARC

Finally, I found a naked bar!

And my personal favorite:

The situation turned serious after the pregnancy test turned red

Funny and Vulgar

I love this! Its totally not PG-13, but it fully describes how messy languages are.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/efee7/what_are_your_favorite_culturally_untranslateable

Spañol Class

Here are some more gems from our Advanced Conversation class.

¨I began the growing of my infant¨

¨She drank a lot of coffee and now she has jackets¨

¨My grandpa got false teeth as of yesterday.¨

¨As I ran from the police, I thought, ´Aye, Carumba.´¨

¨I had to be a good grandson and help my grandfather find his fake arm!¨

¨She was raised by two potatoes.¨

¨We will go to the game so that we can have a good climate.¨

¨The more you speak, the more I hate you.¨

¨In the long run, I will convert myself into a very genteel man.¨

¨Our plan to visit grandpa has failed because she has skills.....I mean dead.¨

¨I have been taxed these papers upon the copy machine.¨

¨I wish I could stop my own personal vices!¨

¨We lack food so we will have to eat these ten brawny athletes¨

¨I didn´t get along with him well because he is a violent attack.¨

¨This weekend I dealt with guinea pigs.¨

¨This Gucci looks great on my muscular body!¨

and just one from my sociology teacher

¨They say that you can´t mix apples and oranges. Well, you can, and you get a delicious fruit salad of statistics.¨ Any K kids want to pass that one on to Dr. Nordmoe for me?

Talky Talky

Here are two interesting/funny anecdotes relating to linguistics from the last two days.

1. I read one of those comic-book style textbooks about linguistics. It was really interesting, but then I caught myself applying Chomsky´s rules of language acquisation to my life! BF Skinner said that childrne learn language through correction and positive and negative reinforcement through their parents. Chomsky said that this isn´t true, that kids don´t just make random guesses at words, they create rules. Today, I felt myself create a rule. In spanish, coverings for things often have the prefix ¨sobre¨and then the word. I was looking for the word ¨Pillowcase¨ (and a pillowcase itself), and I called it a ¨sobrealmohada.¨ Even though that´s not the word (its almohadón), I felt my logic-brain think of how Spanish views coverings for things and what they call them. I´m learning!

2. This one is funny. We were in improv class, and we had a reading to do in English. the teacher was explaining some words in English that people might not know.
Teacher: (Spanish) Ok, so one word is ¨Joker.¨ Who knows what joker means?
Student 1:(English)Batman´s enemy
Student 2: (English)¨WHY SO SERIOUS¨
Student 3: (English) The late Heath Ledger won an Oscar for his preformance in The Dark Knight
Student 4: (Spanish) Heath Ledger died, you idiot!
Student 3: I know! That´s why I said the late
Student 2: He passed away!
Student 4: So ¨Joker¨means ¨dead¨?
Teacher: (Spanish) Ok, let´s move on. Theater of the Oppressed was founded by a Brazillian, Agusto Boal, who actually died about a year and a half ago.
Student 2: What a joker