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LinRobinson
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Objects with odd names... but just to foreigners
More Mexican Spanish tips... click on picture
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BajaBlanca
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Very good reading! esposas indeed LOL
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DENNIS
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Another grease monkey oddity.........in my area, a steering column is called a "sin fin"................"endless."
"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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micah202
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....is the author canadian!?? 
''I heard another gringo in a mechanic’s shack deep in the Baja,,,''
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BigBearRider
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Great stuff. Thanks for posting.
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pauldavidmena
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It's pretty interesting that a curly-haired person is a "Chino". I'm Puerto Rican, and I remember my grandparents referring to an orange (the fruit)
as a "China".
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David K
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Thanks Lin! Good to see you on Nomad.
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alacran
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How about to a non English speaking person, with a car that will not start to be told to "jump the car"??? or to "get a jump"???
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AKgringo
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Good to know that 'jack' translates to 'cat'! Does that work as a verb as well; "Jack it up' translates to 'cat it up'?
When asking for a jack, does it need a qualifying word along with 'gato' to indicate that you want a tool, not a pet?
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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hombre66
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Once at an Autopartes in San Quintin: told that a "sin fin"
was a hose clamp!? My GUESS is that "many things spherical "are regarded with the term sin fin in Mexico.
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sargentodiaz
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As usual, wherever he posts, Lin comes up with great stuff.
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bacquito
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Thanks alot, enjoyed.
bacquito
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Whale-ista
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Ha! Reminds me of a trip To Cuba with a friend, when we were watching an English language TV program with Spanish subtitles. Since we were practicing
our Spanish we turned off the sound to force ourselves to follow along with the subtitles.
At one point a character (a police officer) was trying to apprehend a criminal but had lost his handcuffs during the pursuit. He shouted to his
partner "where are the handcuffs?"
My friend couldn't understand what anyone's wife had to do with the scene.
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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DENNIS
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Quote: Originally posted by lencho  | [
I think that refers more specifically to the worm gear at the end (which also relates to the hose clamp someone mentioned); did they actually apply it
to the whole column?
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That's how I understood it. 
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DENNIS
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| Quote: Originally posted by pauldavidmena | | It's pretty interesting that a curly-haired person is a "Chino". I'm Puerto Rican, and I remember my grandparents referring to an orange (the fruit)
as a "China". |
Another....a person from India is known, officially, as a Hindú, whether they practice Hinduism or not.
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Gulliver
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I am informed this afternoon that the 'cat' jacks are the floor jacks used by mechanics with the long handle. Grabbing the cat by the tail, so to
speak.
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AKgringo
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Grabbing the 'cat' by the tail! Even more color added to a colorful term, thanks for that detail!
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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GoodTattoos
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Ordered the slang book today. Something to read on the plane ride over.
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SlyOnce
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my favorite Spanish phrase is "Ya no hay...."
reminds me of "Yes, we have no bananas...."
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gsbotanico
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Sort of like the "ahorita vengo." Could be a along wait, as I have learned.
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