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> You might believe that 'estoy caliente' means that you're feeling really hot, because you learned that 'estoy' means 'I am' and 'caliente' means hot, but you

> You might believe that 'estoy caliente' means that you're feeling really hot, because you learned that 'estoy' means 'I am' and 'caliente' means hot, but you would be confused when the room bursts into laughter and won't tell you what's so funny about it. That's pretty funny - I was taught in my german class that "ich bin warm" directly translates to I'm feeling hot, but colloquially it means "I am gay". And here, the same phrase in spanish just means horny. Transliteration is definitely littered with booby traps.

ubernostrum 9y ago
When I studied French in school, on my first trip to Québec some of us were eating dinner and someone came by to ask if we wanted anything else. One of the girls in the group responded "Non merci, je suis pleine" -- word-for-word "No thanks, I'm full". And got a laugh, because the connotation was not "I'm no longer hungry", but "I'm pregnant".
- glandium 9y ago
  I'm french, and I've never heard of that connotation for pleine. OTOH, if you tell me "je suis plein/pleine", I'll take it that you're drunk.
  - ubernostrum 9y ago
    I was unaware of it until it happened. Was told it's a Québecois thing. They also taught me the helicopter joke.
    - gboudrias 9y ago
      Québécois here, never heard it either. Maybe it's a regional thing or it was a different word.
      - ubernostrum 9y ago
        Also possible they were messing with the American teenagers, since we were already being overwhelmed with differences between dialects of French.
      - blattimwind 9y ago
        Not in Utica, no, it's an Albany expression.
musage 9y ago
> I was taught in my german class that "ich bin warm" directly translates to I'm feeling hot It doesn't though: feeling hot would be "mir ist heiß", feeling warm would be "mir ist warm". Kinda like you wouldn't say "ich bin schwindlig", but rather "mir ist schwindlig". In English, "I am dizzy" and "I'm feeling dizzy" are the same, in German they're decidedly not. [as a fun bonus, "ich fühle mich warm" is never used, while "ich fühle mich schwindlig" is perfectly fine] Though it's possible to describe a person as "warm" without meaning sexuality (or things related to that which also describe emotional warmth, like "warme Begrüßung", "ein warmer Blick" etc.), "ich bin warm" isn't something you would ever say (in a non-comedy context) I think. Describing oneself or others as hot can mean a lot of things, kinda like in English: horny, attractive, on top of their game, very popular, and so on. Hope that helped :)

ubernostrum 9y ago

When I studied French in school, on my first trip to Québec some of us were eating dinner and someone came by to ask if we wanted anything else. One of the girls in the group responded "Non merci, je suis pleine" -- word-for-word "No thanks, I'm full". And got a laugh, because the connotation was not "I'm no longer hungry", but "I'm pregnant".

glandium 9y ago
I'm french, and I've never heard of that connotation for pleine. OTOH, if you tell me "je suis plein/pleine", I'll take it that you're drunk.
- ubernostrum 9y ago
  I was unaware of it until it happened. Was told it's a Québecois thing. They also taught me the helicopter joke.
  - gboudrias 9y ago
    Québécois here, never heard it either. Maybe it's a regional thing or it was a different word.
    - ubernostrum 9y ago
      Also possible they were messing with the American teenagers, since we were already being overwhelmed with differences between dialects of French.
    - blattimwind 9y ago
      Not in Utica, no, it's an Albany expression.

musage 9y ago

> I was taught in my german class that "ich bin warm" directly translates to I'm feeling hot It doesn't though: feeling hot would be "mir ist heiß", feeling warm would be "mir ist warm". Kinda like you wouldn't say "ich bin schwindlig", but rather "mir ist schwindlig". In English, "I am dizzy" and "I'm feeling dizzy" are the same, in German they're decidedly not. [as a fun bonus, "ich fühle mich warm" is never used, while "ich fühle mich schwindlig" is perfectly fine] Though it's possible to describe a person as "warm" without meaning sexuality (or things related to that which also describe emotional warmth, like "warme Begrüßung", "ein warmer Blick" etc.), "ich bin warm" isn't something you would ever say (in a non-comedy context) I think. Describing oneself or others as hot can mean a lot of things, kinda like in English: horny, attractive, on top of their game, very popular, and so on. Hope that helped :)