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Old 10-25-2005, 03:15 PM   #3
Tonchi
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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla
Or the first-year-student type error in Spanish of forgetting that "pedir" -- to order, is an -ir class verb, and conjugating in like an -ar class verb.

This gets you "pedar" -- to fart. Hell of a way to try and get a vermouth from a waiter, as he'll be doubled over laughing and quite incapable of going for your vermouth.
The one that put me into hysterics was the cargar/cagar substitution by students who don't read all the letters. And then the girl asking someone to carry her books....
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