#170498 - 10/09/07 07:04 PM
Re: cross-threading correction, apology
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Not 'stupid fellow' as Wikipedia sold me.Might want to check out what the Real Academia has to say 'bout that. (Spanish bobo > Latin balbus 'stammering'.) A word can mean more than one thing ...
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#170506 - 10/10/07 08:45 AM
Re: cross-threading correction, apology
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> A word can mean more than one thing ...
oh god, say it ain't so?
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#170516 - 10/10/07 10:57 AM
Re: cross-threading correction, apology
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I'm also not sure what kind of clown a "personaje cuya simpleza provocaba efectos cómicos" was in the primitive Spanish theater. Did they look like Emmett Kelly, Pierrot, or Harlequin?
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#170526 - 10/10/07 02:33 PM
Re: cross-threading correction, apology
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"personaje cuya simpleza provocaba efectos cómicos" was in the primitive Spanish theater. Did they look like Emmett Kelly, Pierrot, or Harlequin?
Cuya among others a guinea pig?
Bobo, boba.
Seems like it's a small bird, a fried egg over easy,a fool,some other food.The Spanish road ends here for me.
asiento de los bobos,carrillos de monja boba, huevos bobos, manga boba, pájaro bobo, sayo bobo, sopa boba.
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#170527 - 10/10/07 02:54 PM
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Cuya among others a guinea pig?
I thought cuya meant whose. "A person whose simplicity caused comic situations".
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#170539 - 10/11/07 06:37 AM
Re: cross-threading correction, apology
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cuya. 1. f. El Salv. y Méx. conejillo de Indias (‖ mamífero roedor). This is what I get from that spanish dictionary as a first. Here the images from spanish google: Conejillo de Indias Did you ever have a pair of guinea pigs? I had a pair and before I looked twice I had six. Pretty comic situation. 
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#170541 - 10/11/07 07:37 AM
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And, not only do individual words have different and multiple meanings (i.e., polysemy), but sometimes two different words have the same pronunciation (i.e., homonymy). I was pointing out that cuya in the quotation above means 'whose', not 'guinea pig'.
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