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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

elijah smith wrote:
> > Jeffrey Newman wrote:
> >
> > >   Thanks for the warning. I guess I'll watch it closely - pulling out
> > >   what I don't want before it goes to seed.
> > >
> > >   Not being a Spanish-speaker, I used Alta Vista to translate your
> > >   closing phrase. This is what they came up with: "That teng taken
> > >   care of"
> > >
> > >   so?? what is a teng?
> >
> > "Que teng cuidado wid dat stuff!"
> >
> > What harm is there having that stuff around.
>
>
> I translated it more along the lines of "Be careful wid dat stuff".  But

That's probably more like it.
Cuidado = be careful
Peligro = danger
(both on road signs in Mexico ahead of sharp curves and other dangerous road 
conditions)

> I'll admit, that's partially contextual.  "teng" ain't spanish - I think
> it's supposed to be "tengo" meaning "I have".... "que" is "that" or "what"
> in a question... and "cuidado" means something like care, careful, be
> careful, caution, etc.  "que tengo cuidado" doesn't translate gracefully, at
> least not to me, but it looks like "I have caution" or "I am cautious of
> that" or something.
>
> Maybe we should just ask Rick.

That might be a good idea. Ranger Rick? Hola. Que pasa?

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