Are there Puerto Rican dialect dog command?
I just adopted a 4yo dog from Puerto Rico (Sato) via my local shelter, so I thought I'd try some commands in Spanish. Because my Spanish is minimal and self-taught, I looked online. Although, all sites have some words in common (ie No), all sites so far also have different Spanish words for the same command in English (ie SIT: siéntate; sientate [no accents]; and sentado.). Is it possible that some "words" would be more familiar/understandable to my little Puerto Rican pup??
2 Answers
¡Siéntate! is the command form and the puppy will react to your tone of voice and I doubt it can differentiate local usage. If it doesn't obey, keep pushing it down onto it's bottom , give it a reward, repeat the command in a clear voice. Or say ' Sit!' . it won't matter, the pup is at this moment in time yours to write on, like a computer disc ( some breeds already have instructions written onto their hard disc and it may be impossible to overwrite the programme of a hunting dog, for example).
' Sentado 'means sitting, i.e. already sitting down, therefore is not the command to sit.
There are different ways to tell a dog to sit, but this has nothing to do with PR. Siéntate is a command the same as Sentado, but this is a short way to say Estate / ponte sentado.
A very idiomatic way is Aplástate / aplastado, this is a Mexican idiom but I don´t know if it´s common in PR or not.
