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[*] posted on 11-7-2010 at 11:08 AM
Why Más ?


Why is the accent on the 'a' when it's only a one syllable word?
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[*] posted on 11-7-2010 at 11:32 AM


Why sí, té, él, etc? There is a reason. They are words different from si, te, el. Mas = pero, aunque.
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[*] posted on 11-7-2010 at 11:39 AM


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Why is the accent on the 'a' when it's only a one syllable word?


They want to take every precaution that the word doesn't resemble this guy's name:

http://cdn.newsone.com/files/2009/02/datelines-randy-moss.jp...
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[*] posted on 11-7-2010 at 12:43 PM


Extra emphasis is given to the /a/ sound in the word más in relation to other words in the sentence. It's almost as if the word Más is said at a louder volume than the word cervesa in "Más cervesa."
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[*] posted on 11-7-2010 at 12:53 PM


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Why sí, té, él, etc? There is a reason. They are words different from si, te, el. Mas = pero, aunque.


Heh, your right, of course, I should of looked it up:
Más = more (adjective)
Mas = but (conjuction)
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[*] posted on 11-9-2010 at 12:28 AM


mas = plus (as in the arithmatic operation)



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[*] posted on 11-9-2010 at 11:02 AM


How expensive is an all-Spanish dictionary in México? BTW, why is the name of the country accented?
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[*] posted on 11-9-2010 at 01:42 PM


Right.

Accents are rather problematic in Spanish. That’s why my first question was a rhetorical one.
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