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zodiac5 Jul 2004

Hmmm. Could it be that neither of you speaks the other's language very well???!?!? YES! The problem isn't that the words don't exist in English to capture what she'd said in Spanish, or anything of the sort; it's just that she doesn't know them, and you don't know Spanish well enough to do it, either.

PS-I've lived months in Spanish-speaking countries. Most of the time they're saying things like, 'Hey, Rosalita, where'd you put the habaneros?' and 'Listen, girl, why don't you suck my giant rat!' and all the tourists are like, 'Oooh! It's the language of romance!!!!!'