For "something" or a "drink"?
"Quieres tomar algo un noche antes que tengo años 55'"
Don't know what the direct translation is; "something" or "drink" before I'm 55 years of age'
19 Answers
And I guess your joke is funny in English, but it simply does not mean anything in Spanish.
Well, first of all, I didn't think it up in English, because it doesn't work as well in that language, since nouns have no gender in English. Half-half isn't as clear as medio-media in terms of what those adjectives are modifying. Second, I still think that native Spanish speakers whose sense of humor matches mine will not only understand my joke, but will think it moderately funny. It isn't really a language-dependent joke, since it focuses on the concept of two halves of time units, rather than a linguistic play on words. It was never meant to be a side-splitter, just a witty comment that might merit a chuckle at best. But now that we have beaten it to death, any humor that was there to start with is certainly crushed.
Unless there is a grammatical problem, maybe we should just leave jokes as they are, without comment. After all, I'm sure you don't find every joke told by a Spaniard to be funny, so it really is a matter of taste.
So James, one has to ask......Did you "entend",sorry intend, to use those words? jajaja.
She has you good this time.
James Santiago - 13 April 2009 08:58 PM
Hay gente que entiende, y la que no.
I meant the sentence I quoted.
The way this is said, sounds really funny, if you want to see the funny side, as it would not be said like this at all in the sense you wanted to use it.
We would have said:
Hay gente que entiende las bromas, hay gente que tiene sentido del humor....
So I used the funny side of the sentence like a Spaniard would have, I wonder if the use of this verb is universal.
that's why I also added: así que tú entiendes...vaya... 
entender: to be gay
¿Tú entiendes? Are you gay? Always used with the pronoun.
And I guess your joke is funny in English, but it simply does not mean anything in Spanish. Like this joke, or would
You understand? have any double meaning? I guess you can see what I mean.
I have only not answered before because I thought you would find out. The meaning is listed on the RAE:
entender1.
- intr. jerg. Ser homosexual.
Please not the intransitive use of the verb here, just like you used it.
I thought she meant this sentence:
*En este caso, creo que se debe entender, aunque no es un uso normal de las palabras (de hecho, si lo fuera, no sería gracioso). *
I saw that one, but that isn't a reflexive use of entender, it's the passive use of se with the verb entender, which is exactly the sense in which Heidita used it (as I quoted her). I fail to see how that could, even by the most juvenile of minds, be taken to have a double entendre (oops! there's that word again). And I can tell high-school-level jokes with the best of 'em.
Anyway, I'll leave my little joke for anyone who appreciates it. Humor that has to be explained is never funny.
Be careful with entenderse = to have an affair!
Could you tell me where I used entenderse? Heidita is the one who said "Debe ser una buena broma en inglés, James, pero en español no se entiende." I can't see anything I said that could be taken to have a sexual innuendo, unless you were REALLY reaching for it.
I'm still hoping H will explain what she meant, but it looks like she doesn't plan to.
I thought she meant this sentence:
*En este caso, creo que se debe entender, aunque no es un uso normal de las palabras (de hecho, si lo fuera, no sería gracioso). *
But I could be totally wrong!!
Be careful with entenderse = to have an affair!
Could you tell me where I used entenderse? Heidita is the one who said "Debe ser una buena broma en inglés, James, pero en español no se entiende." I can't see anything I said that could be taken to have a sexual innuendo, unless you were REALLY reaching for it.
I'm still hoping H will explain what she meant, but it looks like she doesn't plan to.
James, check on the word "entender", that sentence of yours was really funny....
Me vas a tener que explicar el por qué. Tu comentario está más alla de lo que puedo, bueno, entender.
Be careful with entenderse = to have an affair!
And I did get your joke. No comment on whether it was funny or not 
James, check on the word "entender", that sentence of yours was really funny....
Me vas a tener que explicar el por qué. Tu comentario está más alla de lo que puedo, bueno, entender.
James, check on the word "entender", that sentence of yours was really funny.... 
Hay gente que entiende, y la que no.
Hmmm, de eso desde luego no hay duda...¿eso quiere decir que tú entiendes? Vaya...
No quería decir que hay gente que entiende todas las bromas, y gente que no entiende ninguna, sino que con una broma determinada, va a haber los que la entienden, y los que no. Aún en inglés, hay gente que siempre entiende mis bromas y cree que soy muy gracioso, y hay otros que no las entienden en absoluto (o sea, que no las creen chistosas y no se ríen). Es cuestión de personalidad, más que de lenguaje.
En este caso, creo que se debe entender, aunque no es un uso normal de las palabras (de hecho, si lo fuera, no sería gracioso).
Hay gente que entiende, y la que no.
Hmmm, de eso desde luego no hay duda...¿eso quiere decir que tú entiendes? Vaya...
Now, that takes some thinking to work this out, James...jeje
And your sentence means nothing in Spanish, sorry.
Ah, ¿vas a cumplir medio-media? (Medio siglo más media década
Debe ser una buena broma en inglés, James, pero en español no se entiende.
O puede ser que sólo tú no la entiendes. Hay gente que entiende, y la que no. Parafraseando el dicho, sobre bromas no hay nada escrito.
"Quieres tomar algo un noche antes que tengo años 55'"
Ah, ¿vas a cumplir medio-media? (Medio siglo más media década) ¡Enhorabuena! Que no tomes demasiado...
Debe ser una buena broma en inglés, James, pero en español no se entiende. 
"Quieres tomar algo un noche antes que tengo años 55'"
Ah, ¿vas a cumplir medio-media? (Medio siglo más media década) ¡Enhorabuena! Que no tomes demasiado...
vamos a tomar algo,porque manana soy es 55
puedo pasar'?
Hola gerardo, no se entendería, la primera parte sí, pero no la segunda.
Vamos a tomar algo porque mañana es mi cumpleaños, mañana cumplo 55 años, mañana voy a tener 55 años...
Recuerda, la edad en español con el verbo "tener".
