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As a native Spanish speaker from Colombia I also love the topic of linguistic relativity :) Some of the Spanish examples sound uncommon to me, though. "Se han
by torrenegra 16y ago
As a native Spanish speaker from Colombia I also love the topic of linguistic relativity :)
Some of the Spanish examples sound uncommon to me, though. "Se han perdido las llaves" is grammatically correct, but I would not use it. Instead I would say "boté las llaves" if I lost them ("I lost the keys"), or "las llaves se perdieron" if somebody else lost them but I didn't want to accuse that person ("the keys got lost).
Also, I never think of things doing actions "for me" but, instead, "on me". For example, if say "La planta que me diste se me ha muerto" ("the plant you gave me has died on me") I would not be implying that the plant "died for me", but only that the plant died while on my possession.
P.S. Just in case, in real-life this is what I say: "¿Dónde están las putas llaves?"
- paradoja 16y agoI am a native Spanish speaker from the Canary Islands. It's is quite clear that the author is learning mainland Spain's Spanish, as he uses "patata" for potato, instead of "papa", which I believe is used everywhere else. There, those phrases are quite common ones to use for that situations.
- Mz 16y agoSo perhaps it should be "In Spain, it's not your fault"?