Spyke
lemmy.ca

Not to be pedantic, but your sentence makes no sense (obviously you're not trying to lol) By a another milk was made

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lemmy.ca

Yeah but for does not translate into por in this context. The only word that works here is pero. There is no literal word for for (as in but) in Spanish and the closest approximation is pero. Source: I am Spanish

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You can translate "for" in that sentence to "pues"

Also remove the "un" because else you're saying "an another milk" or if you want to leave it for extra funny points make it "una" because "leche" is femenine

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The only word that works here is pero

Careful with that r button though, as perro would be a downright silly word to use in this context.

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jopepareply
lemmy.world

A Greek and Canadian disagreeing on Spanish makes me feel like my mono and thee quarters linguistic ass needs to try harder.

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lemmy.ca

Not Canadian, contrary to my username. I'm actually Spanish, so I imagine that I'm the one who would be correct considering it's my native language

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jopepareply
lemmy.world

Am I supposed to believe you’re not furniture either? Nice try you shifty stack of maple drawers.

Edit: ¿“Por” no es “for” en ingles?

¿Para qué no les dijiste cómo?

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Isn’t it strange how languages have tons of homonyms we hardly notice while having synonyms for almost anything else? Thanks for sharing I’ll check that out.

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flickerreply
lemmy.world

"Shifty stack of maple drawers" is this best thing I've read all week. Thank you for that.

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Justinreply
lemmy.jlh.name

Prepositions are probably one of the parts of speech that is the hardest to translate in any language.

I learned Swedish as a second language, and it feels like "at", "for", and "on" are completely randomly interchanged, even though each word has a direct translation and both Swedish and English are Germanic languages at their core. There are multiple forms of "to" in Swedish too.

The "usage notes" section for the Swedish word for "On" is an experience lol
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/p%C3%A5#Usage_notes

Luckily, they're also the most forgiving part at any speech of mistranslate.

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It’s no wonder doctors in linguistics dip into philosophy as often as they do, incredible minds to know enough languages to study them. Polyglots are cool

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tbh between you and the Grecian parent comment I thought I might’ve uncovered the fediverse Greek mafia lol

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Ok hell yeah; dulce de leches is awesome. Though, I thought it was already in tres leches cake. Isn't it regular milk, condensed milk and dulce de leches? I've never actually made it (and only have had it twice), so maybe I'm just confusing it with something else.

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

Tres leches is whole milk, condensed milk, and evaporated milk. Dulce de leche isn't standard for it. But I'm sure it makes a great addition.

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criticonreply
lemmy.ca

This recipe uses heavy cream instead of whole milk (I think, I was trying to read behind the "please log in" pop up)

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MimicJarreply
lemmy.world

As a white guy I learned this from music,

Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, cinco, seis.

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NinjaFoxreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

Very, I am very confused but will just nod and laugh politely so I don't look stupid

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lemmy.world

"6 milks? In this economy?" I've never had tres Leche, but it's like a dessert, so I think the joke is pretty clear from there. (From a white guy that only knows a little spanish)

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Ah. I guess I technically knew all the words here but I've never actually seen seis spelled out before (or at least not since I was like 5) and couldn't figure out what it was. I never learned economia, but that one wasn't exactly hard to figure out.

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Cataphractreply
lemmy.ml

It's an awesome milk (leche) inspired cake. I've had the 3 milk (tres leche) cake and it's amazing (the wetter the better!). Gonna have to look into what 6 milk products they're using for this though. It's a sweet and juicy dessert where I've had it and doesn't disappoint.

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Cataphractreply
lemmy.ml

Yeah I couldn't think of a better word lol. I should've prefaced it by saying the one from the pic above looks dry as hell. I like to see that sweetened milk slightly settling out of it when you cut a piece from it. Though it's probably delicious in it's own right, I just don't know where those 6 milks are disappearing to if it's even drier.

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"Moist" is probably the word you were circling around. I love tres leches, especially when a little cream spills out when you cut it. There's a threshold where it gets too wet and too rich, but it's pretty high on the moisture scale.

The cake in the picture looks drier than a snake's butthole though, so I'm not sure what's going on with that.

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My Spanish is close to non-existent but I'm feeling pretty proud because I totally got all of this.

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I don't know Spanish but I sure as fuck know multi-cheeses-milks cake

Edit brainfart, meant to say multi-milks, womp womp

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That's too many leches. The leche to cake ratio would be all wrong. I could maybe be convinced to do tres y medio, cuatro leches at the most, but no more.

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