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#187555 11/01/2009 8:49 PM

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AnnaStrophic

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AnnaStrophic

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Joined: Mar 2000

Posts: 6,511
lower upstate New York

In the Mexican song Cielito Lindo, the refrain starts out like this:

Ay, ay, ay, ay,
Canta y no llores...

I can't work out the endings. Canta looks like 3p sing. present tense; chores looks like 2p sing. present. Seems like both should be imperative: "Sing and don't cry." Wassup? Or is it just a dialect thang?

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Weighing in (run for your lives!) ;0) twosleepy 11/02/2009 1:33 PM

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