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when i first come to spain i attempted to learn some spanish. I was quite succesful. even at my 50 something years i now speak a good level of spanish. anyway, i used to go out each day with some phrases on a notepad and test them in shops. just wasting assistants time asking questions about products.

Freuqently I went to the little window at the side of macdonalds opposite the bullring and RENFE to buy an ice cream cone. in spanish its called CONO ... cone... later that day I hear a young couple arguing in the street and he kept shouting at her i thought CONO CONO CONO .. iwondered why he was calling her that. later checking with a spanish friend I discovered a word very similar with a very different meaning.

so be careful.. if you have an english keyboard without ñ años and anos are slightly different things. cono and coño are slightly different things.... by he way if you dont have ñ on your keyboard (you'll need it if you go into a spanish chat and someone asks your age - see años and anos above) hold down alt and press 1 + 6 + 4

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Or use a "ny" if you don't have the tilde key...

tengo 50 anyos

It's all in the free beer thread though?

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Right, it may not be correct but for us 2 finger typists I prefer your method for the ny.....especially with a laptop where there is no number pad.

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If anyone finds it difficult to remember the difference it is best to ask for a cucurucho :D

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but you might get mixed up & say cucaracha:ohmy:

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I'd been going to Mercadona for a year before somebody told me I wasn't actually asking for chicken!!! Make sure you pronounce the 'll' in Poll(y)o rather than 'poyo' as I thought it was.

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I dont know, a nice crunchy chocolagte flavoured one, might tast OK, and considered a delicasy in parts of the world.:D

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I'd be more worried if you were putting an 'a' on the end;)

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You were saying it right, I think I say the LL sound with a mixture of" DJY" sound, if that makes any sense,:confused: but, poyo is fine and understood everywhere.

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so I've heard - but the heladería might not be happy if you said it too loud:lol:

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Dont tell lies, you love it with an A on the end.

Dont try and come over as prim and proper, because it just wont wash.

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But isnt that what you women put on your lips (lipstick);)

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off with you - too early for that sort of talk:ohmy:


now I have to go wask myself before I go to worh

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apparently some do


mines coffee flavoured though

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We will have less P taking, I had already changed the spelling mistake, so dont come over all school marmish.

BTW, it is crushed beetles that goes into lipstick......so no woman should ever turn her nose up at a good chunk of black pudding....

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you're too slow - I already quoted you:p

yeah I do know about the beetles - I don't use lippy much though

I could never eat black pudding in the UK - but have here

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:confused: I was told recently that poyo means.............. shall we say a male chicken???? :o

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Have you tried the "dulce" one with raisins?

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If you look through through the forum, you will find lots of chicken=todger threads.:D

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pollo IS what you want

it's the one with an a at the end that you probably don't

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I like it with apple in an empanada

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But I am from Yorkshire so maybe it sounds like an A :eek:

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Oh well, there is nothing you can do about it then, your neighbours will think of you as being "the only gay in the village":lol:

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I think you'll find that was Wales not Yorks :p

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I meant that they will think you are the only gay in the village because you ask for P-olla................