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Question

Muchas gracias for the suggestions given! Now, por favor, mis amigos, some exclamations like "Your mother's mustache!", "So's your old man!" , "Up your nose with a rubber hose!" and similar thoughts pero en español! muchas gracias de antemano!

Before I approach "New old story 5", I need to ask for some input; I have learned the hard way that there is a multitude of idiomatic phrases in Spanish, and for most of those phrases, there is no simple English-Spanish translation! (Like "me gusta", right?) I need some common exclamations (besides Caramba and Excelente); in English one would say, "Oh, my!" or "How about that?!" or "Good golly Miss Molly" and none of these translates. I need expressions of surprise, amazement and disbelief, also congratulatory phrases, comfort sayings, and nasty stuff (like a school bully favorite sayings)

Now, the warning - this could drive you really nuts, it is getting to me. If you do a Google search on smileys ... guess what ads will appear on your S.D. screen? At first I thought they were cute; now not so much ....

"me gusta" isn't really idiomatic - it's pretty much the same as "it disgusts me" in English. - someone09, May 17, 2011

me gusta does not mean that. - jeezzle, May 17, 2011

@Jeezle: I think that someone09's comment was more in referene to the syntactic structure and not necessarily the actual meaning of the phrases - Izanoni1, May 17, 2011

Syntactic structure! I wish I could sound that smart. En cualquier idioma! - MLucie, May 17, 2011

I know what you meant someone09. To Disgust is a comparative way to describe to usage of gustar to those English speakers learning Spanish. - Beatrice-Codder, May 17, 2011

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Answer 1

Chevere! Macizo! Super! Que pinta! jajajaja

Answer 2

Cielos is like oh my I would use it if you want to Dios Mios or Por Dios out of respect for God's name..

Answer 3

"Dios mio" doesn't carry the same weight as using the lord's name in vein in English. (at least that is what I have experienced) It's the same in French (Mon Dieu!)

what that consitutes is different, but again if someone wouldn´t feel right doing it, there are alternatives. - BellaMargarita, May 17, 2011