¿Mi profesor puso los puntos sobre las íes?

Question

Tengo que traducir la oración de arriba. No sé lo que significa "íes." ¿Alguien sabe? Creo que la oración significa en inglés algo como: My professor marked my paper up with errors.

Cualquiera sugerencia es bienvenida.

Gracias,

Kerri

Answer 1

I was curious about Bunbury's affirmation, so I decided to check it out further.

Seems like there are two widely accepted meanings for this expression.

The one closer to my understanding is that it means to "clarify something, to make dispel all doubt about something". There is a nice explanation supporting that on this link.

Clearly a number of people on the Internet understand the expression as Bunbury stated it. I won't contest it, but that is not the way I have ever used or hear that expression used.

is teh better thing you can do . not speak about something , you dont know who is - Bunbury, Apr 4, 2010

Muchas gracias, - Kerri, Apr 4, 2010

¡El link me ha ayudado mucho! - Kerri, Apr 4, 2010

De veras bunbury, te pasas. No tienes por qué molestarte tanto. - nuxita, Apr 4, 2010

We have a lot of mexican shi-tty teachers like you here in Spain . We use them for cleaning our w.c. - Bunbury, Apr 5, 2010

Answer 2

Literally the expression means "to place the dots on the "i's" (the letter i). If you notice, the letter I has a small dot on top.

"Poner los puntos sobre la ies" means to me to finish something up, to polish it up to stisfactory completion. A sentence is not quite complete until you have placed the dots over all the i's.

Ponerle a alguien los puntos sobre las ies , significa poner a alguien en su sitio ( porque se esta tomando demasiadas confianzas , por ejemplo - Bunbury, Apr 4, 2010

Yo no lo entiendo así. Yo o entiendo como completar algo. - Gekkosan, Apr 4, 2010

Francamente, Bunbury, ese tipo de respuesta raya en lo grosero. Yo respeto tu opinión, al punto que me tomé el trabajo de confirmad de dónde sacaste esa interpretación. No me sobra la arrogancia para determinar que estás hablando de lo que no sabes. - Gekkosan, Apr 4, 2010

Answer 3

We have exactly that same expression in French and that is pretty much what it means - to put someone in their place.

And we have exactly the same expression in English and it means to put the "finishing" touches on something. - samdie, Apr 5, 2010

Answer 4

ies is the plural of letter i . just that

and putting los puntos sobre las ies significa something like " the teacher put us in our place" - Bunbury, Apr 4, 2010