Hacker News Reader

HNHacker News

Top New Best Ask Show Jobs

Comment by pjmlp | Hacker News Reader

Parent Full thread

pjmlp·

Yep, I guess we could change

> Mi aerodeslizador está lleno de anguilas

> El mio aerodeslizador está lleno de anguilas

And

> Mon aéroglisseur est plein d'anguilles

> L'aéroglisseur a moi est plein d'anguilles

Spanish and French natives feel free to correct me. :)

EDIT: Thanks for the corrections.

View on HN

Mi is pretty much "my", and "mío" is close to "mine". "Mi aerodeslizador" is correct, and "El mío aerodeslizador" is as awkward as "Mine hovecraft". Source: I'm a native Spanish speaker.

Not a native, but the Spanish version sounds wrong; I've heard em “el mio” used as a noun phrase , but not as a modifier for another noun, so “El mio aerodeslizador” sounds awkward. But maybe it's okay.

No. "El mio X" or "El X mio" sounds terrible, esp. the first one I doubt is even proper, the latter can be used to stress "mine" (mio).

> L'aéroglisseur a moi est plein d'anguilles

This sounds extremely stilted and unnatural. If you really wanted to emphasize it was your hovercraft, you’d say “mon aéroglisseur à moi est plein d’anguilles” but even then it sounds heavy handed.

This there hovercraft of mine and oh ain't I speaking a fancy francy.

Not really. "Mi aerodeslizador está lleno de anguilas" is correct and the standard one. We can say "El mío está lleno de anguilas" when the noun (anguila) is implicit by context.

In Spanish I think "El aerodeslizador mío" would sound better.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com