What are cucarachas?
So-U brought in your Christmas doormat, finally?
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"Cucaracha" is a term used at the forum to refer to users who have too much free time on their hands, and enjoy wasting the time and resources of the other members.
They have some filthy habits that sometimes can lead to transmissible viral infections. We try to squash them on sight.
Nasty
Ok, I always thought this was rather funny
cucarachas = cockroaches
I suspect this is going to turn into a thread about useful expressions: how do you say "Someone is pulling your leg" in Spanish? Or "pulling your chain" but maybe I'm out in left field.
Cockroaches (it's in the dictionary located at the top of this page).
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Please feel Please feel free to make any corrections. Thanks
I saw the fear on my mothers’ face, I said, I can’t kill it; I am a devotee of Richard Gere. She lifted one of her eye brows and smiled. I tried to do the same thing with my eye brow but couldn’t So I did the next best thing, I lifted my right eye brow with my index finger “She smiled out loud, what does Gere has to do with anything,” she said “Don’t you know”? “He is a Buddhist, follower of Dalai Lama and a
Buddhist doesn’t kill.”
"Are you still taking your medication?", she asked
I walked over to her and kissed her cheek.
PS Smiled out loud, I could have said laughed but I don’t know how to spell it. Dumb joke, I need to get some sleep.
Hola Viajero:
Very clever. Here are some of the corrections that you requested:
Original
So, "you brought in your christmas doormat, finally"?
She said, making a funny face,
"Yea" I said, "but I ain't taken down the chritsmas tree,no way, no how". Mother got rid of her funny face, and inhaled deeply instead. " You look tired;are you eating? what are you eating? For an answer, I walked to the fridge and opened it , and pointed to the 5 cans of Budweiser, 3 bottlels of Corona and a half empty quart of Colt 45 Malted liquor; and then, I said, I have a varied diet. She sat on a high wooden chair in the kitchen but stood up quickly,screaming and pointing to a roach crawling up the chair's leg.
Grammar
"So, you brought in your Christmas doormat, finally?" She said, making a funny face.
"Yeah" I said, "but I ain't takin' down the Christmas tree, no way, no how."
Mother got rid of her funny face and inhaled deeply instead. "You look tired; are you eating? What are you eating?
For an answer, I walked to the fridge and opened it and pointed to the 5 cans of Budweiser, 3 bottles of Corona and a half empty quart of Colt 45 Malt liquor, and then I said, "I have a varied diet."
She sat on a high wooden chair in the kitchen but stood up quickly, screaming and pointing to a roach crawling up the chair's leg.
Rhetoric (stylistic suggestions)
making a funny face
Correct me if I am wrong, but I get the impression that you are using the expression "funny face" to describe a look on the mother's face meant to coincide with the playful tone of her statement. The expression "funny face," however, might be a bit ambiguous because it can often mean that the person is carrying a strange/odd (not in a humorous way) expression. Here are a couple of possible alternatives:
She said with a (wink and) grin
She said while giving me a playful look.
She asked with a jovial look in her eye.
Mother got rid of her funny face, and inhaled deeply instead.
The use of the word "instead" seems somewhat awkward here. I get the impression that you are trying to convey that the mother's happy look was replaced by this sign of disapproval/worry/seriousness (i.e. the deep inhalation). Here are a few examples:
My mother's face dropped, and she took a deep breath/inhaled deeply.
**The light quickly faded from my mother's eyes. She took a deep breath before finally asking me..."
The joyous/mirthful/playful look faded from my mother's face and was quickly replaced by a deep/heavy sigh.
I walked to the fridge and opened it , and pointed....
You have three consecutive actions which might be better said with only one "and":
I walked to the fridge, opened it and pointed....
A comma between the words "it" and "and" is possible, but was not included in order to remain consistent with the rest of your writing (in which you do not place a comma between the words "Corona" and "and").
Again these are only suggestions, but I hope that some of this might have been helpful to you
Cockroaches clean themselves very scrupulously, as most insects do, in order that their sensory bristles on their body walls and limbs are ready to sense any hint of water, food, a mate or an enemy. Signed, Josephine, the don't tease me, you fool, Roach
Cockroaches. It's also a dance step for Salsa dancing.
Izanoni1, Thank you so much for your help. I will study your correction. Thank you for taking the time.
So-U brought in your Christmas doormat, finally?
So, "you brought in your christmas doormat, finally"?
She said, making a funny face,
"Yea" I said, "but I ain't taken down the chritsmas tree,no way, no how".
Mother got rid of her funny face, and inhaled deeply instead. " You look tired;are you eating? what are you eating?
For an answer, I walked to the fridge and opened it , and pointed to the 5 cans of Budweiser, 3 bottlels of Corona and a half empty quart of Colt 45 Malted liquor; and then, I said, I have a varied diet.
She sat on a high wooden chair in the kitchen but stood up quickly,screaming and pointing to a roach crawling up the chair's leg.
Corrections, grammatically or other wise? Thank You
Explanation, I am unable to resist a strange question.
