Could you expound on the wildcard idea?

Question

So if you're like me one word links to another and another and another, just answered a question with "Could you expound on the wildcard idea?" and I realized that my mind's dictionary has "expound" listed as a definition for "plantear". Expound, set forth, raise (a question) is what I have in the old noggin for it. Don't ask me how my mind works. But anyway, would you say "¿Puedes plantear en cuenta a la idea "wildcard"?"

Answer 1

I think your question in Spanish is not well structured. The word "plantear" can also be interpreted as "exponer", a good structured question would be: "Puedes exponer la idea del Wildcard?". Here you are asking or inviting someone to expound, to present, to bring to the table the idea of the Wild card..The word "plantear" can also be interpreted as "exponer", as you may know, in Spanish one word can be used in different forms.

Answer 2

¿Puedes plantear en cuenta a la idea "wildcard"?

I would say ¿Puedes dar cuenta de tu idea de wildcard? Or, ¿Puedes plantear mejor tu idea de wildcard?

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Ok, I said wildcard because sometimes there are words that have one meaning, but they start to be used in several contexts meaning a different thing.

For instance, you have the word ´coso´ in Spanish, or thing in English., they are like ´wildcards´.

Pásame el coso ----> gimme that thing

And also you have some verbs like échale. In some context you are not ´echando´ anything.

- Vamos a bailar? - Échale - ¿Quieres que prenda el televisor? ----> Échale

You are not pouring anything, you are not throwing anything, you are not tossing anything. Échale is there to show agreement, so it works like a wildcard (to me).

So chale could be échale (I do think it is a deformation or échale), although it doesn´t make sense from a semantic approach because it´s used as a wildcard in an unexpected context.

Hope you understand this becasue my mind has its own nooks and crannies where these ideas are forged and I have restricted access to that information.

Oh my goodness, I never heard 'coso' before!!! Thanks - margaretbl, Dec 8, 2010

Answer 3

Expound, set forth, raise (a question)

For me, this is too full a definition. For me, Expound = to explain or set out in detail, say, an argument or theory.

For me, expound does not embrace the idea or concept of questioniong or raising a question.

Against this background, i would have to put it that the Spanish 'plantear' cannot be a substitute or synonym for the English expound.

I looked at the RAE definition of plantear (found here ----> plantear), and I wondered if the actions explained under plantear could not be a part of the expounding process but I could not bring myself to believe they are the whole of the expounding process.

Agreed. Expound does not raise a question, but many words have multiple meanings. The definition in the Websters dictionary is "to expound". So I assumed it had two meanings but it looks like it's just raise a question, and not "set forth" or "expound" - jeezzle, Dec 8, 2010

I think it depends on how the thread originated. I propounded an idea and then I expounded it :-D - mediterrunio, Dec 8, 2010

Answer 4

Good answers .

A few things: So "dar cuenta de" means to expound (or give a complete answer about like full disclosure about), while darse cuenta que/ de que/ means to realize, and the two forms are unrelated.

So I could use "échale" to mean "do it" or "yeah go ahead and do it." that's what it looks like you are meaning there with that.

So "el coso" is thing just like "la cosa"? That blows my mind. Never heard "el coso" before. Gracias.

So exponer is better thought of as expound (on) and plantear is better though of as "to ask or raise (a question)?" Thanks fellas.

so you never heard ´el coso de la cosa´ for ´that thing that goes with the other thing´ or ´the guy who is the whatever-you-cal-lit of the woman´ - mediterrunio, Dec 8, 2010

dar cuenta de is more like ´to account for´ - mediterrunio, Dec 8, 2010

Puedes dar cuenta de tu idea de wildcard? Can you account for the idea of wildcard? That makes no sense though. Can you expound on (give more information about) the wilcard idea? That makes sesne. - jeezzle, Dec 8, 2010