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Statements of Light
Monte Nagler
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You Are the Light of the World: Statements on Mission by the World Council of Churches
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- Such a widespread language that it is difficult to parody
- Funny, but inaccurate & inappropriate
- I agree, HILARIOUS!
- Hilarious! Wonderful gift book for travellers and friends
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Wicked Spanish (Wicked)
Howard Tomb
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From the sneakily successful travel series with over 1 million copies in print, Wicked Spanish (over 250,000 copies in print) is the devilishly funny pocket-sized guide to language and culture in the land of manana.
From managing epic taxi rides (The Old Man and the Chevy) to Perfecting the Haggle to Tipping the Police, Wicked Spanish anticipates and prepares norteamericanos for a wide range of exotic Latin customs and conditions-also know as que sera, sera.
Explain to your innkeeper that you'd rather have private accommodations: Pero you prefiero un cuarto sin escorpiones. ("But I'd prefer a room without scorpions."). Politely ask your waiter what you're eating: QuS hace immovil dentro del mole? (What lies motionless under the spicy chocolate sauce?). And Mi abuelo perteneci. a un sindicato obrero ("My grandfather belonged to a labor union") may be just the ticket for kidnap victims of revolutionaries.
Once acclimated, you'll make clever cockfight conversation, understand Zapotec Basketball, and even enjoy a cold cerveza with your wife in a friendly men's bar: No la mires. No le hables. No la toques. ("Do not stare at her. Do not address her. Do not touch her."). Above all, you'll learn the real meaning of Vaya con Dios.
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Such a widespread language that it is difficult to parody.......2005-07-19
I read this after learning some Spanish from Peruvian co-workers. It would be safe to say that the Peruvians taught me nothing useful and some very exotic terms. In reading this I was expecting something similar. That isn't what I got. Things you won't find here: cussing and some real native (to one or two countries) expressions. Oh and in case you haven't picked up on it, this is not meant to be a pocket guide to the language. This is a humorous phrase book.
What you will find is a humorous English guidebook to Spanish culture. Every two pages you are given a paragraph write up on some aspect of culture and then a sample dialog. These are hilarious. Some sample phrases pulled from the book: "What lies motionless under the spicy chocolate sauce?" "Can't you see I'm a gringo?" "These look delicious... How much for one/two/half a kilo?" and "Actually, sending letters into the Void is one of my hobbies."
Somehow I liked this less than I did other books in the Wicked (insert language here) series. I think maybe there are too many Spanish speaking cultures to do an accurate parody of them. Factors like political instability, cocaine and hygiene issues are big points for some countries but not universal. All of these issues make for a joke somewhere, but there isn't a focused target for parody as there is for say, Wicked French. If they did pick a focused target it was fat wool clad women, but hello have you seen Telemundo. All the women are hot and the men are all disgusting with hair growing from weird places - and they all have mustaches. The jokes are funny, but Spanish is such a widespread language that the humor skips all over the place.
Also since Spanish is so widespread the book is limited from giving a translation that would only work in some of the countries in question. I don't speak Spanish, but I can pick through it and I didn't see any idioms here. I am sure that the Spanish is accurate, but these are phrases that you could translate with a dictionary. I don't think you will find any slang here.
If you get this book do it for the parody of hispanic cultures. This whole series is good clean fun.
Funny, but inaccurate & inappropriate.......1999-05-14
These are the kinds of comments that are bound to get you a punch in the nose or worse in many parts of Latin America. They are humorous as satire. However, the Spanish comes across as literal translations of the English comments. It ends up sounding like a debased form of the language that doesn't even get the "wicked" points across accurately. With few exceptions, the Spanish comments were word-for-word translations that don't mean very much in Spanish. Waste of time.
I agree, HILARIOUS!.......1998-06-07
I bought this in the airport on the way to Chile. I laughed out loud many times on the plane & when I met up with co-workers in Santiago, THEY laughed out loud. Rating this on laughs per page, it's not a bargain--it's a steal.
Hilarious! Wonderful gift book for travellers and friends.......1998-02-02
I spent most of an evening laughing reading this book. I recently gave it to a couple of co-workers who went to Peru, one fluent in Spanish, the other who spoke none at all. They each used some of the phrases and made several new friends.
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George and Harold have really done it this time . . . they've created a MONSTER! She's faster, stronger, and more evil than anything the world has seen before --she's Wedgie Woman! With the help of her horrible robots and her ravenous robo-claw, Wedgie Woman is on a mission to take over the world, and she'll give a whopping wedgie to anyone who stands in her way --including Captain Underpants. Will Wedgie Woman's wicked ways spell the end for our heroes? Spanish title: El Capitan Calzoncillos y la furia de la supermujer macroelastica
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Cuando Dorothy triunfó sobre la Malvada Bruja del Oeste en el cuento clásico de L. Frank Baum, solo supimos su lado de la historia. ¿Pero qué de su enemiga primordial, la misteriosa bruja? ¿De dónde vino? ¿Qué fue lo que la volvió tan mala? ¿Cuál es la verdadera naturaleza de la maldad?
Gregory Maguire crea un mundo de fantasía tan rebosante y vívido que nunca veremos a Oz de la misma manera. Wicked describe una tierra en donde los animales hablan y aspiran a ser tratados como los ciudadanos de clase alta, los munchkins buscan la comodidad y estabilidad de la clase media y el Hombre de Hojalata se convierte en víctima de la violencia doméstica. Luego tenemos a la niña de piel verde llamada Elphaba—quien crecerá y se convertirá en la famosa Malvada Bruja del Oeste—una criatura inteligente, espinosa y malentendida que desafía todas nuestras nociones preconcebidas sobre la naturaleza del bien y el mal.
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Excelente Libro.......2007-07-11
La verdad no he tenido la oportunidad de leer el libro en español, pero lo he leido en ingles y me entusiasmó saber que ya está disponible la version en español, pues este es un maravilloso libro que merece ser traducido a cuantos idiomas se pueda. Si eres fan de los libros de L F Baum y de la película de MGM, Wicked te encantará, ya que Gregory Maguire toma elementos importantes de los libros originales, elementos clásicos de la película y crea un mundo denso con personajes profundos e interesantes, dando como reslultado un nuevo Oz, que , aunque es el mismo que conocimos de niños, es como redescubrirlo con ojos de adulto.
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Algo Perverso: (Something Wicked) (Fuego)
Tori Carrington
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Malvados en accion/ Wicked Whodunits (Desvela El Misterio)
Jim Sukack
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Tomas de Torquemada: Architect of Torture During the Spanish Inquisition (A Wicked History)
Enid A. Goldberg , and
Norman Itzkowitz
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Lo Bello Y Lo Siniestro/ The Beauty and the Wicked (Filosofia / Philosophy)
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