An egg for your tea? I’m not so sure I understand that, but I like the fact that some of your stories are in Spanish. I like it even more that I actually can sort of read them!

In 1947 or 1948, there was a very, very popular song that went like this: and now, does nobody know it?
“Tea” is used by English people to denote a meal of sorts….
the original song included the words “…an egg for my tea?” so your translation is spot-on, Emmyful.

Oh, I wasn’t thinking of ’tea ’ as a meal, but it makes a lot more sense now.

Are you high? Eggs for tea? Ay caramba.

Read my comment, BegoniaRob. I didn’t write this song, I merely translated it. I’ll give the original in due course.

yea, but if the english used that, that doesn’t mean the spanish did. To us. Tea is Tea, and I’m not sure we want our eggs going there.

Note: gallina pequeña…no
in spanish we use -ito or -ita to stress a smaller form of ‘most’ nouns

gallinita.

gatito, cochito, casita, puntito, this goes for names as well, Pablito, Juanito, Juanita. (like Tiny Tim) I would be Drewito. Some nouns can’t be transformed this way because there are other words that are written the same way, or because they are unchangeable. Libertad (liberty) is a noun, but it is incapable of being Libertadita. NOPE. these are general nouns that also are generally not pluralized.

lo de “dígame” se usa más en hispano américa, creo que si lo he entendido bien, diríamos “Dime” :)

I can’t imagine why I wrote “digame” and have simply failed to see what I had done. Of course it MUST be “dime”.

Yes, G Up, quite right about the diminutives. I forgot about those pesky blighters. We have the same imps in Afrikaans.

I remember when I lived in Blanes 52 years ago a small boy asked me to get him “un perrito chiquitIn que no crezca.”