Speaking Spanish!

[Pesky Wesky]

Remember this thread??
Well I just asked on another forum which is for translators mainly about cateto and this is what they said

- I think cateto really just refers to the typical uneducated country folk

- Cateto typically refers to an uneducated person and by extension to language use.

[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]- People can say to each other : ¡No seas cateto! meaning don't be hick or brutish...

SNIP/

More or less what xabiachica found out.
So that's that sorted then!

[jojo]

Originally Posted by Pesky Wesky

Remember this thread??
Well I just asked on another forum which is for translators mainly about cateto and this is what they said

- I think cateto really just refers to the typical uneducated country folk

- Cateto typically refers to an uneducated person and by extension to language use.

[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]- People can say to each other : ¡No seas cateto! meaning don't be hick or brutish...

SNIP/

More or less what xabiachica found out.
So that's that sorted then!

Well found!!!

Jo xxxx

[Pesky Wesky]

Originally Posted by Pesky Wesky

Remember this thread??
Well I just asked on another forum which is for translators mainly about cateto and this is what they said

- I think cateto really just refers to the typical uneducated country folk

- Cateto typically refers to an uneducated person and by extension to language use.

[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]- People can say to each other : ¡No seas cateto! meaning don't be hick or brutish...

SNIP/

More or less what xabiachica found out.
So that's that sorted then!

That wasn't the forum link, it was to an article about cateto!

[jojo]

Originally Posted by Pesky Wesky

That wasn't the forum link, it was to an article about cateto!

It was a forum when I clicked on it??? in Spanish, but a forum!!??????? Or am I losing it - nowt would surprise me today, its not been a good one for us

Jo xxx

[SteveHall]

cateto - surely means the opposite of street-wise?

"Juan es un cateto" - means to me, easily-fleeced, easily hood-winked. He is not street-wise.

I can imagine two estate agents gleefully commenting on a Gatwick flight arriving at Alicante. " Ya llegan los catetos" as in lambs to the slaughter.

Anybody?

[Pesky Wesky]

Originally Posted by jojo

It was a forum when I clicked on it??? in Spanish, but a forum!!??????? Or am I losing it - nowt would surprise me today, its not been a good one for us

Jo xxx

OOPs, sorry

[jojo]

Originally Posted by SteveHall

cateto - surely means the opposite of street-wise?

"Juan es un cateto" - means to me, easily-fleeced, easily hood-winked. He is not street-wise.

I can imagine two estate agents gleefully commenting on a Gatwick flight arriving at Alicante. " Ya llegan los catetos" as in lambs to the slaughter.

Anybody?

All I know is that Rubys friend, who's lived here since she was 6 and is more spanish than english says she, her friends and "the kids on the streets speak "cateto" and there are very few consonants involved!!!

Jo xxx

[SteveHall]

That´s a different usage. That means "street-speak" or something like that. "gang-speak" as in what they speak among themselves.

This really is a most confusing thread! I blame Maggie

[jojo]

Originally Posted by SteveHall

That´s a different usage. That means "street-speak" or something like that. "gang-speak" as in what they speak among themselves.

This really is a most confusing thread! I blame Maggie

Its your age hun

Jo xx

[SteveHall]

¡Vete a freir monos! ..... and yes Ruby can use that one!