Game: Miss a letter and you could be saying a totally different word in Spanish!

Question

Okay, so yesterday (that's now 12/06/12), while I worked on translating, I came across a word that sparked an idea: pesado (heavy). I have also seen pescado (fish) and pecado (sin). At this point I decided it was BREAK TIME! And I scanned a little more of the "P" section of my Spanish dictionary to find other words that were only a letter difference.

What really intrigued me was the idea to make a sentence out of it. This makes it a GAME.

Rules: Find 2 or 3 words that are very close to each other, missing a letter, or having a different letter in the same place.

Then make a sentence (or 2) combining the words that would make some sense, in Spanish and English.

Include pictures to help define your sentence.

Everybody help everybody out with corrections!

Have fun!

Example:

Pescado Pesado Pecado

El pescado puede estar pesado como el pecado. Fish can be heavy as sin.

Great game. Just a minor correction, in your sentence "be" works as "ser", not "estar". Also remember to use articles! El pescado/el pecado. - Hokuten, Dec 7, 2012

Love this game! - francobollo, Dec 7, 2012

I would add that your sentences need to be in Spanish and English. - rac1, Dec 7, 2012

Super idea!!! I like it!!! :) - PumpkinCalabaza, Dec 7, 2012

Good game Saige...I am constantly getting works like this mixed up! Great practice. - 0095ca4c, Dec 7, 2012

Thank you so much, Hokuten! - SaigeSmith, Dec 7, 2012

Thanks rac1. - SaigeSmith, Dec 7, 2012

I know what you mean, Margherite, I've been making these kinds of mistakes. - SaigeSmith, Dec 7, 2012

Answer 1

Duplicate words. Pumpkin beat me to them.

Do you have some others? I like to check the dictionary for mine.... - SaigeSmith, Dec 19, 2012

Answer 2

miles and millas.... thousands and miles.

I have thousands of miles to go before I get these two words straight in my head.

Tengo miles de millas a ir antes de tener estas palabras correcto en mi mente.

Isn't it millas de miles? - JoyceM, Dec 28, 2012

No, miles = thousands / millas = miles. Miles de millas - FlorenciaAlonso, Dec 31, 2012

Answer 3

Anoche fue la pelea entre Marquez y Pacquiao. Ambos son hombres fuertes, pero anoche solo uno tenía suerte.

Last night was the fight between Marquez and Pacquiao. Both are strong men, but last night one one had good luck.

Fuerte and suerte, I'm guessing? - PumpkinCalabaza, Dec 11, 2012

Answer 4

Caro (expensive) and Carro (car)

Él conduce un carro muy caro.

He drives a very expensive car.

Answer 5

lechuga = lettuce / lechuza = barn owl

La lechuza no comía la lechuga./ The owl didn't eat the lettuce.