Blinding Flash of the Obvious

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The word nada is Spanish.

I went through nearly twenty years of my life with nada as part of my lexicon, always used correctly, and never once did it occur to me that it might be a Spanish word.

I just thought it was slang. California slang. haha. You can all laugh at me now.

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Re: Soy un perdedor, I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

You DO know c'est la vie is French, right?

well yeah. first off, c'est la vie is a phrase, not a single word. second, it doesn't even sound like it could be english slang (like "gonna" sounds like slang). thirdly, I took french classes.

I know other spanish words, like casa or loco or denada or si. but I knew those were spanish words.

[octopedingenue]

ack. sorry, 'shaka--I was aiming for gently snarky and it came out far too bitchy instead. I apologize.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Well, so was I and apprently so did I.

See, we're too nice.

We should both just say "You thought I was bitchy? Well I WAS! EAT THAT BITCH!"

And then hug and make up. ::snuggle::

Re: Soy un perdedor, I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me

[evemac.livejournal.com]

Heh. "De nada" is two words. Literally, "of nothing."

It's funny. I don't know if it's from growing up in the Bay Area or from taking Spanish -- I have SO many Spanish words in my vocabulary. I always say "Voy al ----" if I'm going somewhere. I'm just weird.

Do you understand the rap in Sublime's "Caress Me Down"?

Re: Soy un perdedor, I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Hell no. Maybe one in 20 words. the most spanish class I ever took was 7 weeks in sixth grade. All I remember from that are the numbers.

Most of the spanish words I do know, I can say but can't spell (see you point above.)