I'm ashamed to admit I understood this....

JD Jones · Sep 23, 2016

Have I been here too long?

I am officially announcing there is something wrong with posting images on DR1. I have tried every method imaginable and I cannot get this image to show up. I know it ain't me.

AlterEgo · Sep 23, 2016

Haha, I had to read it 2-3 times before I got it

Chirimoya · Sep 23, 2016

Clear as mud!

RG84 · Sep 23, 2016

Need some help, I don't understand

AlterEgo · Sep 23, 2016

I showed it to Mr AE, he read it as if it was plain as day, not a second of hesitation, lmao. Then he shook his head and grumbled about literacy in DR.

AlterEgo · Sep 23, 2016

RG84 said:
Need some help, I don't understand

Labamo tu carro. We will wash your car. In Dominican-eze.

Africaida · Sep 23, 2016

Chirimoya said:
Clear as mud!

Same here !

It is actually pretty easy once one understands that a segment of the population in DR writes in phonetics.:bandit:

RG84 · Sep 23, 2016

AlterEgo said:
Labamo tu carro. We will wash your car. In Dominican-eze.

Ahhh, if it was written without the words broken up I think I would have gotten it.

AlterEgo · Sep 23, 2016

RG84 said:
Ahhh, if it was written without the words broken up I think I would have gotten it.

I don't know why they do this, but it's rather common in DR. And then throw in the B instead of V.

dulce · Sep 23, 2016

This sign is in the town where I work: Se Bende limber. Can anyone guess what it is?

JD Jones · Sep 23, 2016

dulce said:
This sign is in the town where I work: Se Bende limber. Can anyone guess what it is?

Too easy.

I'm obviously a lost cause.

dv8 · Sep 23, 2016

i think limber is some sort of desert/sweet?

Derfish · Sep 23, 2016

My latest favorite is "Nunk aido" Meaning I never went!
Der Fish

frank recktenwald · Sep 23, 2016

AlterEgo said:
I don't know why they do this, but it's rather common in DR. And then throw in the B instead of V.

Not just in the DR. Many basic educated latinos make that mistake because a V is almost pronounced as a B

sdq · Sep 23, 2016

Wow "Nunk aido"... If you hadn't explained it, I'd have never guessed it!

Derfish · Sep 23, 2016

frank recktenwald said:
Not just in the DR. Many basic educated latinos make that mistake because a V is almost pronounced as a B

In the airport in Medellin Colombia, actually out of the city in the town of Rio Negro there is a sign repeated several times sometimes with the b and sometimes with the v. Sorry, but at the moment i cannot even remember what the sign said.
Der Fish

AlterEgo · Sep 23, 2016

frank recktenwald said:
Not just in the DR. Many basic educated latinos make that mistake because a V is almost pronounced as a B

True. But do they also drop most of their s's?

Xavier_Onassis · Sep 23, 2016

B and v are pronounced the same in Spanish. At the beginning iof a word, a b is a bilabial semiexplosive, as in bird
between vowels, they are both bilabial fricatives, like f with the voice turned on una vaca , abuelo.

frank recktenwald · Sep 23, 2016

AlterEgo said:
True. But do they also drop most of their s's?

Yep they do but they don't change the R for an L like the Dominicans, mi mujel, mi amol

AlterEgo · Sep 23, 2016

frank recktenwald said:
Yep they do but they don't change the R for an L like the Dominicans, mi mujel, mi amol

I've always heard about that r-l switch, but I've never actually heard anyone use it. Is it regional in DR? Dominicans I know are from the capital and San Cristobal campo.

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