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In spanish are english words said backwards?

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Are spanish phrases spoken backwards in english?

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updated Aug 18, 2011
posted by DestinyW

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It depends on which way you are facing tongue wink

updated Aug 10, 2011
posted by elainepnj
hahahaha. good one. - MrSillyInc, Aug 10, 2011
Perfecto! - --Mariana--, Aug 10, 2011
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That by mean you what understand don't I

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updated Aug 18, 2011
edited by lazarus1907
posted by lazarus1907
Good one, that translates perfectly :) - EL_MAG0, Aug 18, 2011
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Sometimes backwards, sometimes backwoods, sometimes backstroke.

updated Aug 18, 2011
posted by StephenTrevor
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Sometimes they´re spoken sideways, depending on how much you´ve had to drink.

updated Aug 10, 2011
posted by 005faa61
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.oot ,sdrawrof meht kaeps ew ,oN

No pude resistirlo...

updated Aug 18, 2011
posted by Jeremias
lol - 00b6f46c, Aug 11, 2011
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No but some people speaking them are a little sdrawkcab smile

updated Aug 18, 2011
edited by ian-hill
posted by ian-hill
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Hola, Destiny. Welcome to SpanishDict!

Uh, I am a little bewildered by your question because your title is the opposite of your post!

I believe the correct answer is...no. grin

Let's take the word "tener", a Spanish infinitive meaning "to have". In Spanish, it would be pronounced "rrrrrenet" (because we would have to roll our r's).

In English, we say to "to have". That doesn't sound much like "rrrrenet"! smile

Let's take the English word "hello". Backwards, that would be spelled, "olleh", probably pronounced like "¡Olé!" In Spanish, we don't say, "¡Olé" for "hello"...we say hola!

Basically, Spanish is its own language. English is its own language.

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updated Aug 18, 2011
edited by SonrisaDelSol
posted by SonrisaDelSol
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Yes, Spanish IS like backwoods or something.

updated Aug 18, 2011
posted by mistermouse
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Depends on how you look at it...the adjuctives come after nouns...but I think that makes more sence to discribe what you are talking about after you know that which you are talking about smile

updated Aug 18, 2011
posted by toothpastechica
"adjectives" & "sense" - samdie, Aug 11, 2011
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If you mean the order of corresponding words in sentences in the two languages, sometimes it is the same and sometimes it isn't. Spanish tends to accept a wider variety of orderings, but a strict reversal is unusual except for short groups of words.

updated Aug 10, 2011
posted by lorenzo9