Why does Bob call himself Joe when everyone else calls him Bob
Por qué Bob se llama a si mismo "Joe" cuando todo lo demás se llaman Bob. I know this is wrong, I couldn't figure out how to say something like this yesterday. Does todo lo demás mean "everyone else" or just "Everything else"? Gracias.
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Probably the very first thing I learned over 2 years ago was to never use two le/la sounds together and alwasy to switch the pronoun to SE if followed by an L. (Barron's Spanish I think) Why is it le llaman and not se llaman here in that case? Gracias.
Jeezle,
You may be missing the point. This is not of case of seeing se when two third person object pronouns both exist together.
Llamarse is used reflexively. Me llamo, te llamas, se llama.... I call myself, you call yourself, he calls himself
When you call someone else something, however, you are no longer using the reflexive verb. You now use object pronouns (le in this case) rather than reflexive pronouns (se).
Ella le llama a Bob por el nombre "Roberto".
I thought "todos los demás" meant everyone else and "todo lo demás" meant everything/anything else. But I am not entirely sure.
todo lo demás=all of the remaining/rest/balance, everyone remaining. everything remaining
everyone, all, everybody, the rest is singular=lo
All of the candy leftover from Halloween is (singular) to be donated.
todos los demás=all of those (people, things) remaining is plural
All of those things need (plural) to be donated yet.
Either the singular or the plural can refer to things or people.
I thought "todos los demás" meant everyone else and "todo lo demás" meant everything/anything else.
But I am not entirely sure.
Anyone else?
Jeezzle asked:
Do you think it's right now?
I like this:
¿Por qué Bob se llama a sí mismo "Joe" cuando todo lo demás le llaman "Bob?"
Hey Jeezzle. I've heard "todo lo demás" to mean exactly that -- everyone else.
Why did you use "llamase" instead of "todo lo demás le llaman...."?
Every one else calls him Bob, Todo el mundo le llama Bob.
Por qué Bob se llama a si mismo "Joe" cuando todo lo demás se llaman Bob.
¿Por qué Bob se llama a sí mismo "Joe" cuando todos los demás le llaman/dicen Bob?
From my mom: ¿Porque se refiere Bob a si mismo como Jose, en vez de llamarse Bob, como lo hacen todos los demas?
