Do these 5 short sentences look OK?

Question

Thank you, in advance, for answering my question. This is for a skit, so accent marks don't matter. Please fix grammatical errors and anything else that would make it sound better. Thanks again.

1.) Voten para mi porque soy organizado. Vote for me because I'm organized. 2.) Pero eres desorganizado y perezoso. But you are disorganized and lazy. 3.) Si votan para el, la escuela ser un lio enorme. If you vote for him, the school will be a huge mess. 4.) El precio de la comida ya demasiado. The price of the food is already too much. 5.) Dudo que comprendes todos los detalles que se necesita a completar un trabajo tan grande. I doubt that you understand all the details that one needs to complete a job/task this big.

Answer 1

1.) Voten por mi porque soy organizado. Vote for me because I'm organized. 2.) Pero eres desorganizado y perezoso. But you are disorganized and lazy. 3.) Si votan por el, la escuela será un lio enorme. If you vote for him, the school will be a huge mess. 4.) El precio de la comida ya es demasiado. The price of the food is already too much. 5.) Dudo que comprendas todos los detalles que se necesita para completar un trabajo tan grande. I doubt that you understand all the details that one needs to complete a job/task this big.

I disagree about the accents not being important. For example, "será" means "will be", whereas "sera" doesn´t mean anything at all. And, if the person reading the text is likely to read (pronounce) it incorrectly as well.

I used to skip over accents as well, but in fact its really easy to install the spanish keyboard software in most versions of window, and its even easier if you use a mac. Do it right!!

Agree, accent marks change the meaning, wheher it's just written, but more importantly in this case the pronunciation. So I think it's importatn to try and always use them when you can. you never know when you may come back to this. - bdclark0423, Jan 6, 2010

Answer 2

As long as you don't care about the lack of accent marks, which can make the difference between one word and another, then you're OK with the exception of this one:

El precio de la comida ya es demasiado.

I believe the submitter means to say that because this is going to be spoken by actors, it makes no difference whether or not the actors know what the words mean and the audience cannot view the accents when the words are spoken. - hithere3387, Jan 6, 2010

In this case, para should be por as KATTYA points out. Voten para mí = vote on my behalf - bdclark0423, Jan 6, 2010

That's exactly what i intended to say. And thanks for explain how por vs para changes the mean of the sentence. - zmanuel, Jan 7, 2010