Help! What is the Answer?

Question

no quiero comer el sandwich_________ no me gusta el jamón

answers?

Bienvenido al foro, por favor, utilice mayúsculas al hacer una pregunta. - rac1, May 15, 2012

Answer 1

There is no such a thing as an "answer" for that statement.

• On the other hand, "sandwich" is a word that has been accepted in Spanish, but if you want to used the correct word, it should be "emparedado" and the article "el" is unnecessary. I.E. "No quiero comer emparedado (sandwich) porque no me gusta el jamón.

Sanduche! - afowen, May 15, 2012

Bocadillo also works. - sinsonte, May 15, 2012

Well, sanduche is just "spanglish" and bocadillo is more like a snack. A sandwich/emparedado is pretty much a "meal/lunch" Don't you think? Thanks! - farallon7, May 15, 2012

I think sanduche is specific to Colombia but of course it's as Spanglish as parquear, closer and lonchera. I'm surprised you suggest bocadillo as here it's that thick guava jam stuff... - afowen, May 15, 2012

Hmm, You are right, bocadillo is a word used for that yummy guava paste. I think its full name is bocadillo de guayaba, and shortened is "bocadillo" but when you go to a party, they serve a bunch of little "goodies" called bocadillos, a bite size snack. - farallon7, May 15, 2012

Lo siento, gracias. Pero he oído que la palabra 'emparedado' no es común en México... pero neither is 'bocadillo' (besides being used as 'snack')...just forget I wrote that. Haha - sinsonte, May 15, 2012

Fallaron: pan de bono con o sin bocadillo? - afowen, May 15, 2012

Fallaron, it seems that a lot of high school students, or even younger, come in here with fill in the blank "questions". They are doing an assignment, homework, whatever.... and to them it is a "question", although it's completing a FITB exercise. - Esteban3304, May 15, 2012

haha! - sinsonte, May 15, 2012

I know that Esteban, but that is okay with me! Too bad if they are not smart enough to know that they are cheating their own learning. - farallon7, May 15, 2012

afowen, pandebono is a single word. It is Cheese bread and delicious! - farallon7, May 15, 2012

In Spain, a bocadillo is any type of sandwich (meal or snack) that is made on bakery-style bread. A sanduich is any type of sandwich that is made on sliced bread (the kind that is most common in the U.S.). - slkey, May 16, 2012

Also, please remember that just because a word is the same in Spanish as it is in English doesn't mean that it's Spanglish. Many words in English are stolen/borrowed/distorted, but we don't denigrate them. Ex: Pizza, Spaghetti, Frankfurter, Hamburger - slkey, May 16, 2012

slkey, that word is Spanglish, no doubt about it. Same like voleibol, vóleibol, vólibol, fútbol, basketbol, etc. We do have the correct words in Spanish, but people use them so much that became, okay. Still, it is Spanglish. What's Spanglish for you? - farallon7, May 16, 2012

One word, of course. I'm not sure that I've seen it written down much, I just by them, sin bocadillo por supuesto... - afowen, May 16, 2012

Personally, I see Spanglish as a linguistic mix between Spanish and English. You can't have a Spanglish word unless it's part English and part Spanish. (like "eateando"). Spanglish requires codeswitching between the two languages in either vocabulary - slkey, May 17, 2012

or grammar. If "sandwich/sanduiche" is Spanglish, then English doesn't exist as a language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_English_loanwords_by_country_or_language_of_origin. - slkey, May 17, 2012

Answer 2

Well actually:

Sandwich

But I understand. - sinsonte, May 15, 2012

Answer 3

I second that. There is no such thing as an "answer" to this. A proper response yes. Unless of course you have a list of words to fill the blank with, then yes... there would be "an answer"

I don't want to eat the sandwich (because/due to the fact that ..etc) I don't like ham.

Plugging in 'porque' aka 'because' works.

Answer 4

According to the Spanishdict dictionary "sándwich" is acceptable for sandwich.

Answer 5

I don't want to eat the sandwich......I don't like ham.

Answer 6

Since you have to give a reason you have to say "porque".

COULD say... but I mean... you could plug a few things there. lol. - sinsonte, May 15, 2012