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don't apologize for using a great word. :)
by jwkane 5y ago
don't apologize for using a great word. :)
- adolph 5y agoTotally agreed, my comment was just to add meaning in case others also wondered , not a criticism. Gotta love trans-language words. My friends used to say “go hands” whenever it was time to vamanos.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoBut hands, manos, does not even appear in vámonos.
- throwamon 5y agoI was about to say the same, but I just googled to be sure. Apparently "vamanos" is a common (mis)spelling?
- thaumasiotes 5y agoI always thought it was vaminos. Spanish speakers are unlikely to make that mistake, though, because the ending -monos is regular for first-person plural reflexive imperatives. https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/mirarse#Conjugaci%C3%B3n https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/mirarse#Conjugaci%C3%B3n (And -monos is etymologically very transparent - it's just the first person plural ending -mos, familiar to everybody, with the first person plural reflexive pronoun nos suffixed onto it and eliding the -s of -mos.)
- adolph 5y agoIt might be a Texas accent thing, like green toad (sappo verde) for happy birthday.
- mbg721 5y agoI mean, in much the same way, "lexicon" is French for "the xicon"...