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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 2:17 pm


Yo es por todas partes. Yo saque fotos en Mexico. Visito la piramides. Muy montanoso en mexico.

Most of you don't know what that means, so i would like you all to post with your answers to what it means.

On Valentines day, i will award 100 gold to the person with the closest answer.


Yipee for whoever wins!!!

(if no one gets even close, then i won't give it away.....)
PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 2:27 pm


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Yo es por todas partes. Yo saque fotos en Mexico. Visito la piramides. Muy montanoso en mexico.

I am abroad. I take pictures in Mexico. Visit the pyramids. There are many mountains in Mexico.

Um...saque is "to take out," not "to take."

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 6:18 pm


Um...elyse....the meaning isn't the same...that was in spoken spanish....and your meaning was close, but the present tense and past tense are used in that so it was wrong...

saque is the past tense term for take, meaning that saque means took.
PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:01 pm


July_4th100
Um...elyse....the meaning isn't the same...that was in spoken spanish....and your meaning was close, but the present tense and past tense are used in that so it was wrong...

saque is the past tense term for take, meaning that saque means took.

Well, the dictionary said that you are wrong! Also, if you correct me, that doesn't let others do so...you should probably edit your post just saying that my answer is wrong.

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 7:39 am


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Um...elyse....the meaning isn't the same...that was in spoken spanish....and your meaning was close, but the present tense and past tense are used in that so it was wrong...

saque is the past tense term for take, meaning that saque means took.

Well, the dictionary said that you are wrong! Also, if you correct me, that doesn't let others do so...you should probably edit your post just saying that my answer is wrong.


Unfortunately, dictionaries don't contain the preterite forms....saque is in the preterite....
PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 5:58 pm


July_4th100
Yo es por todas partes. Yo saque fotos en Mexico. Visito la piramides. Muy montanoso en mexico


I am abroad. I took photos in Mexico. I visit the pyramids. Very mountainous in Mexico.

...You forgot the 'it is' part... Es muy montanoso en Mexico. Also, it's not 'visito la piramides', it's 'visito los piramides'. The verb estar is used for either location or change; ser is used for everything else. In this case, you are using ser for location--you should use estar instead. Also, saying 'I visit the pyramids' in present tense with out any prelude like that is very choppy. It would sound better as 'I will visit the pyramids' or 'today, we visited the pyramids'. It would be rather odd for someone to write this while visiting the pyramids, and then, a 'currently, I am visiting' would be used rather than 'I visit'.

It should go: Estoy por todas partes. Saque fotos en Mexico. En este momento, estoy visitando los piramides. Es muy montanoso en Mexico.

By the way, Elyse, sacar fotos is proper wording in Spanish. Sacar=take; you take photos. wink And even if the dictionary says Andie is wrong, Katy says Andie is right. Which she is. So there. This is why I want to help teaching Spanish....

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 7:10 pm


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By the way, Elyse, sacar fotos is proper wording in Spanish. Sacar=take; you take photos. wink And even if the dictionary says Andie is wrong, Katy says Andie is right. Which she is. So there. This is why I want to help teaching Spanish....

Although...my guess was pretty good for somebody who doesn't know any Spanish, ne?
PostPosted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:38 pm


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By the way, Elyse, sacar fotos is proper wording in Spanish. Sacar=take; you take photos. wink And even if the dictionary says Andie is wrong, Katy says Andie is right. Which she is. So there. This is why I want to help teaching Spanish....

Although...my guess was pretty good for somebody who doesn't know any Spanish, ne?

Quite good. I wouldn't do as well guessing Japanese, that's for sure. Though I might... possibly... if it was Latin. But that's just because the bases of the words relate to our modern European languages, so it's easier to guess.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:16 pm


Sorry. Andie forgot to look at this on Valentines day.....Katy Won!!!!
PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:23 pm


Another one is coming.

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