La Palabra del Día: La tontería
La tontería
foolishness, stupid thing, nonsense
Note: This word will be the official Word of the Day and will be posted January 29, 2012.
If you have ideas for good words, please send me a PM – I will make it a future word of the day.
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My Example:
A veces, me gusta decir una tontería, para poder observar la reacción de alguien. En realidad, hago esto más de lo que debiera.
Sometimes, I like to say something stupid, so I can watch someone’s reaction. In reality, I do this more than I should.
27 Answers
Oh no, I did that stupid thing again. I used the subjunctive wrong!
Ay no,otra vez hice esta tontería .Usé el subjuntivo incorrectamente!
Si escribo la última frase por el año sin mi gran libro rojo de los verbos ,
entonces será una tontería.
If I write my last sentence for the year without my big red book of verbs,
then it will be foolish.
Don't make a New Year's Resolution that you know you can't keep. It's foolishness!
No haga un propóstio de año nuevo lo que sabe que no puede guardar mantener. ¡Es la tontería!
Para mí es una tontería completa cuando las personas usan sus celulares hoy en día (tal vez sea simplemente porque soy anticuada).
In my opinion, it's complete foolishness how people use their cell phones these days (perhaps it's just because I'm old).
Cuando la tontería se mezcla con peligro, cosas malas pasan...
When foolishness meets danger, bad things happen...
¡Correcciones por favor!
A los hombres, a veces, la lógica de las mujeres (les) parece una tontería. Para nosotras, todo tiene sentido.
Sometimes , to men, female logic seems a little lacking in sense. To us women, it's all clear.
It is a silly thing to shave when it's not needed.
Es una tontería rasurarse cuando no necesita.
Con correcciones: Es una tontería afeitarse cuando no es necesario.
Muchísimas gracias por todas las correcciones.
La tontería está atado en el corazón de los jóvenes hasta que llegan a ser a una persona madura.
Foolishness is bound in the heart of youth until they become a mature person.
Este pez está pensando en la tontería.
This fish is thinking something stupid.
"Déjate de las tonterías " ¿ No puedes ver que tengo prisa ? ¡ Déjame ír !
Quit the nonsense ! Can't you see that I am in a hurry ? Let me go !
En internet encuentras tonterías para parar un tren! 
In internet you find stupid things to stop a train!
With Chris' sugestions:
On the internet you can find enough stupid things to stop a train
Jugar fútbol en mi computadora es una tontería, pero me encanta. Playing soccer on my computer is foolishness, but I love it.
La tontería es infinitamente mas fascinante que la inteligencia. La inteligencia tiene un límite, la tontería no.
Claude Chabrol
Foolishness is infinitely more fascinating than intelligence. Intelligence has a limit, foolishness no.
Claude Chabrol
Últimamente he sido viendo muchas tonterías como una chica paseando en la playa en una minifalda... es normal no? .... no porque esto pasó en una playa de Irlanda y había muchísimo viento.
Lately I have been seeing a lot of silly things like a girl walking at the beach in a miniskirt... it's normal right? ... wrong because this happened in Ireland on a beach in winter with really strong wind!
¿Crees que este mono pueda tocar la guitarra? No, obviamente es la tontería, pero es una foto muy interesante.
Do you think that this monkey can play the guitar? No, obviously it's foolishness, but it is a very interesting picture.
