La diligencia iba que volaba
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La diligencia iba que volaba. The speed was going fast. Or is it diligence? I think I learned once that IR que volar is the go fast. Gracias.
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updated Dec 20, 2010
posted by jeezzle
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The stagecoach was going so fast that it was flying.
updated Dec 20, 2010
posted by mountaingirl123
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"La diligencia iba que volaba" is probably just lazy Spanish. The gramatically-correct way is "La diligencia iba como que volaba "
updated Dec 20, 2010
edited by 005faa61
posted by 005faa61
Yo diría que más que "Lazy Spanish" se trata de un uso idiomático. Para mi la expresión: "iba volando" o "iba que volaba" siempre ha significado: "va muy rápido". - Gekkosan, Dec 20, 2010
De acuerdo con "iba volando" pero la otra me suena como algo de la hueva. Entonces ha de ser una cuestión de regionalismo - 005faa61, Dec 20, 2010
algo de "la" hueva, sounds very weird, "algo de hueva"... it's more common I think, de dónde eres Julian? - Tonyriva, Dec 20, 2010
Tony, soy de California pero he vivido dos veces en el DF de largo plazo. Saludos - 005faa61, Dec 20, 2010
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I'd simply write: The stagecoach was (nearly) flying!
updated Dec 20, 2010
edited by Gekkosan
posted by Gekkosan
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Well I doubt it's lazy Spanish from this literary guy I'm reading. Angelina by Rafael Delgado (1919 I think it was written) anyone read it? Maybe just oddly worded but he is supposedly from Mexico.
updated Dec 20, 2010
posted by jeezzle
I don't find iba que volaba wrong, or lazy... it sounds quite common to me - Tonyriva, Dec 20, 2010
