Part of an e-mail, the word "saga"
I received this excerpt in an e-mail, can someone please help me understand what the sender is trying to say?
lastima que no saga todo, pero se ve que vives feliz ahi
I get most of it: sad that - - -, but I can see that you live happily there.
Thank you!
8 Answers
me meti a google a ver donde vives si esta muy bonito, lastima que no saga todo, pero se ve que vives feliz ahi."
Good for you to give more context, which is always essential.
this new friend of yours looked in google for the place you live and...
lastima que no saga todo,
it's a shame one can't see everything (maybe the photo is too small or not clear enough)
the verb is salir, here it means to be visible or come out
alternative would be "shame you do not leave it all, but I see you are happy over there"... but I do not know your relationship with this individual. Nevertheless. ¡Buena Suerte!
Sorry, my english is not perfect. In my example for "leave it all" I was implying that something was missing. Sorry for the confusion. I now know that the correct way to say it is "see it all"
The word is not 'saga' is 'salga', the person don´t wrote the 'L'. The sentence is: "lastima que no SALGA todo, pero se ve que vives feliz ahi", and he/she means something like 'sorry I do not see everything, but I see that you live happy there'
NOTE. sorry by my english, but I speak spanish and I'm learning english.
Alright - I get it! My friend and I are just getting re-acquainted (after 40 years!). He asked me, "where do you live?" so I sent him some Google maps screenshots (3 shots in sequence zooming out with each successive shot until my home and his home in La Ciudad de México were both displayed).
Subsequently he went on Google Maps and tried to use "Streetview" to look at my house. But because we live in an under-populated area of rural Canada, Streetview ends about 2 kilometers from my house - so all he was able to see was the end of the road where it meets the highway!
I love "Streetview" - I have wandered my old neighborhood in La Ciudad many times - even walked all the way to school (El Colegio Americano)...I sent my friend a screenshot of our houses (we lived on the same street there) attached to my first e-mail. I'm such a sentimental old so & so!
Thanks, mystery solved! I appreciate your help & caring - great community here!!
I would go with Heidi's explanation here. I don't think it's a typo as suggested by mjcubano. The use of "salir" here is equivalent to the Spanish verb "resultar". In other words your area on the Google Map site wasn't very clear (didn't come out". Here are a couple of examples where the verb salir is used for "to come out".
No salió ninguna de las fotos - None of the photographs came out.
La foto salió movida - The photograph has come out blurred.
Perhaps it was a typo for "salga" which would make the expression "Lástima que no salga todo..."
No te preocupes.
Perhaps more of the context would help - mjoubano's answer doesn't make sense to me (but he's right that it could be a typo!):
"me meti a google a ver donde vives si esta muy bonito, lastima que no saga todo, pero se ve que vives feliz ahi."
