mission accomplished,” we “stay the course,” but with “timetables.” Now who says the gringos and the Afro Costa Ricans can’t communicate just as well as the Decider?

Still, Peach wants to know why the Spaniards have not let us off the hook. Well, you see, Peach, the Spaniards had a flashback after their trains were bombed and they have steadily refused to adopt this writer’s suggestion that they replace SER with Alcanzar and IR wit Alzar. You see, Peach, violence never achieves anything. Had the Arabs not bombed the trains, the Spaniards may have been more receptive to my suggestion to change the revenge verbs for verbs that actually made sense. The problem, Peach, is that Alcanzar and Alzar are Arabic words, as are approximate 5000 other Spanish words, all left over from the Arabic conquer of Spain.

So, we’re stuck with two of the most pernicious revenge verbs and, you’re going to have to learn them. I suggest you start off with the purchase of a book called 501 Spanish Verbs

A. Learning Spanish Special Revenge Verb: SER

We begin where we ended with the second Spanish revenge verb: SER.

First, I request the reader’s indulgence for a brief moment. I want to explain something. Since writing Part II, the IR revenge verb, I have thought profoundly about why the Spaniards, a very simpatico people, would punish us English speaker so long after defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1688 and so intensively with revenge verbs.

Then, it struck me, like a bolt of lighting: The Spaniards are not to blame. They merely learned revenge from their immediate prior conquers, the Arabs! As the reader knows, the Spaniards were dominated and controlled for over seven centuries by the Arabs from North Africa, who referred to themselves as Almohadas. From 711 A.D. until the latter part of the fifteen-century, (1491) an Arab golden civilization reigned in Spain. Although the Arabs had an enlightened history of tolerance at the time, e.g., allowing Jews the most freedom they had ever experienced until the founding of Israel almost 500 years later, they have always had a single fault: revenge! So, the Spaniards inherited their revenge from the Arabs and therefore we should blame the Arabs for foisting upon us verbs that are not only suffused with revenge but lack common sense.

Now that I have resolved the enigma as to why the very nice, courteous and likeable Spaniards are still taking out revenge on us via their revenge verbs, IR and SER, I will discuss the second revenge verb, SER.

B. Learning Spanish Requires Learning SER.

To really understand the intensity of revenge in SER, one must conjugate the present tense, compare it with the past tense and see with how IR adds to the intensity of the revenge.. Every single ending in the present of SER is a revenge: Yo soy, t? eres, ?l, ella es, nosotros somos and ellos, ustedes son. Why could they not have just conjugated SER using more common sense—like, yo so, tu sas, ella sa, nosotros sam, ustedes san?

Think the present conjugation is crazy, just try the past: Yo fui, t? fuiste, ?l, ella or usted fue, nosotros fuimos, ellos, ellas or ustedes fueron. Where did the “f” come from? There is no “f” SER!

Our little Georgia “Peach” noticed the fact that SER and IR are identical in the past tense. She believes that she has lost her sight, her sense or both. Not so. The Spaniards have conflated these two entirely different verbs in the past as identical, but with starkly different meanings:. Fui (Ser) means I was. Fui (Ir) means I went, it went or did go. How crazy would I sound if I said, “I was went, did go to the beach? Well, some of my English students here may say I sound just like that!

For Peach this thing of learning Spanish is getting to be worse than punishment; it’s torture. Luckly for her, she came to Costa Rica to learn Spanish at RICA. She goes to Lim?n and she learns that the Afro-Costa Rican, who are over one-third of the population in that province, have blended Spanish and English and given birth to dialect called Mekatelyou!

You see the slaves and Jamaicans that came to Costa Rica and built the railroads, after the other populations had died from the extreme heat trying to do so, decided not to fuss with the revenge verbs; in fact they decided to blend and create their own dialect. Mekatelyou has largely dispensed with worrying about verbs much like the many gringos here in Costa Rica have dispensed with even trying to conjugate Spanish verbs. Many gringos here resort to communicating via infinitives. “Ir Samara,” “Querer unos `lechuga, ’” or “Comer gallopinto.” The Limonese just say “Yo goin’ dhere,” “My mudder me gru’” or something like that and go and have a nice day!

Now, before we get too chauvinistic, let’s not forget we in the United States are adopting similar practices. Just listen to the “Decider” and you will quickly realize that we can be creative with English too: Let’s go on the “internets,” because “mission accomplished,” we “stay the course,” but with “timetables.” Now who says the gringos and the Afro Costa Ricans can’t communicate just as well as the Decider?

Still, Peach wants to know why the Spaniards have not let us off the hook. Well, you see, Peach, the Spaniards had a flashback after their trains were bombed and they have steadily refused to adopt this writer’s suggestion that they replace SER with Alcanzar and IR wit Alzar. You see, Peach, violence never achieves anything. Had the Arabs not bombed the trains, the Spaniards may have been more receptive to my suggestion to change the revenge verbs for verbs that actually made sense. The problem, Peach, is that Alcanzar and Alzar are Arabic words, as are approximate 5000 other Spanish words, all left over from the Arabic conquer of Spain.

So, we’re stuck with two of the most pernicious revenge verbs and, you’re going to have to learn them. I suggest you start off with the purchase of a book called 501 Spanish Verbs

ey had ever experienced until the founding of Israel almost 500 years later, they have always had a single fault: revenge! So, the Spaniards inherited their revenge from the Arabs and therefore we should blame the Arabs for foisting upon us verbs that are not only suffused with revenge but lack common sense.

Now that I have resolved the enigma as to why the very nice, courteous and likeable Spaniards are still taking out revenge on us via their revenge verbs, IR and SER, I will discuss the second revenge verb, SER.

B. Learning Spanish Requires Learning SER.

To really understand the intensity of revenge in SER, one must conjugate the present tense, compare it with the past tense and see with how IR adds to the intensity of the revenge.. Every single ending in the present of SER is a revenge: Yo soy, t? eres, ?l, ella es, nosotros somos and ellos, ustedes son. Why could they not have just conjugated SER using more common sense—like, yo so, tu sas, ella sa, nosotros sam, ustedes san?

Think the present conjugation is crazy, just try the past: Yo fui, t? fuiste, ?l, ella or usted fue, nosotros fuimos, ellos, ellas or ustedes fueron. Where did the “f” come from? There is no “f” SER!

Our little Georgia “Peach” noticed the fact that SER and IR are identical in the past tense. She believes that she has lost her sight, her sense or both. Not so. The Spaniards have conflated these two entirely different verbs in the past as identical, but with starkly different meanings:. Fui (Ser) means I was. Fui (Ir) means I went, it went or did go. How crazy would I sound if I said, “I was went, did go to the beach? Well, some of my English students here may say I sound just like that!

For Peach this thing of learning Spanish is getting to be worse than punishment; it’s torture. Luckly for her, she came to Costa Rica to learn Spanish at RICA. She goes to Lim?n and she learns that the Afro-Costa Rican, who are over one-third of the population in that province, have blended Spanish and English and given birth to dialect called Mekatelyou!

You see the slaves and Jamaicans that came to Costa Rica and built the railroads, after the other populations had died from the extreme heat trying to do so, decided not to fuss with the revenge verbs; in fact they decided to blend and create their own dialect. Mekatelyou has largely dispensed with worrying about verbs much like the many gringos here in Costa Rica have dispensed with even trying to conjugate Spanish verbs. Many gringos here resort to communicating via infinitives. “Ir Samara,” “Querer unos `lechuga, ’” or “Comer gallopinto.” The Limonese just say “Yo goin’ dhere,” “My mudder me gru’” or something like that and go and have a nice day!

Now, before we get too chauvinistic, let’s not forget we in the United States are adopting similar practices. Just listen to the “Decider” and you will quickly realize that we can be creative with English too: Let’s go on the “internets,” because “mission accomplished,” we “stay the course,” but with “timetables.” Now who says the gringos and the Afro Costa Ricans can’t communicate just as well as the Decider?

Still, Peach wants to know why the Spaniards have not let us off the hook. Well, you see, Peach, the Spaniards had a flashback after their trains were bombed and they have steadily refused to adopt this writer’s suggestion that they replace SER with Alcanzar and IR wit Alzar. You see, Peach, violence never achieves anything. Had the Arabs not bombed the trains, the Spaniards may have been more receptive to my suggestion to change the revenge verbs for verbs that actually made sense. The problem, Peach, is that Alcanzar and Alzar are Arabic words, as are approximate 5000 other Spanish words, all left over from the Arabic conquer of Spain.

So, we’re stuck with two of the most pernicious revenge verbs and, you’re going to have to learn them. I suggest you start off with the purchase of a book called 501 Spanish Verbs

ustedes san?

Think the present conjugation is crazy, just try the past: Yo fui, t? fuiste, ?l, ella or usted fue, nosotros fuimos, ellos, ellas or ustedes fueron. Where did the “f” come from? There is no “f” SER!

Our little Georgia “Peach” noticed the fact that SER and IR are identical in the past tense. She believes that she has lost her sight, her sense or both. Not so. The Spaniards have conflated these two entirely different verbs in the past as identical, but with starkly different meanings:. Fui (Ser) means I was. Fui (Ir) means I went, it went or did go. How crazy would I sound if I said, “I was went, did go to the beach? Well, some of my English students here may say I sound just like that!

For Peach this thing of learning Spanish is getting to be worse than punishment; it’s torture. Luckly for her, she came to Costa Rica to learn Spanish at RICA. She goes to Lim?n and she learns that the Afro-Costa Rican, who are over one-third of the population in that province, have blended Spanish and English and given birth to dialect called Mekatelyou!

You see the slaves and Jamaicans that came to Costa Rica and built the railroads, after the other populations had died from the extreme heat trying to do so, decided not to fuss with the revenge verbs; in fact they decided to blend and create their own dialect. Mekatelyou has largely dispensed with worrying about verbs much like the many gringos here in Costa Rica have dispensed with even trying to conjugate Spanish verbs. Many gringos here resort to communicating via infinitives. “Ir Samara,” “Querer unos `lechuga, ’” or “Comer gallopinto.” The Limonese just say “Yo goin’ dhere,” “My mudder me gru’” or something like that and go and have a nice day!

Now, before we get too chauvinistic, let’s not forget we in the United States are adopting similar practices. Just listen to the “Decider” and you will quickly realize that we can be creative with English too: Let’s go on the “internets,” because “mission accomplished,” we “stay the course,” but with “timetables.” Now who says the gringos and the Afro Costa Ricans can’t communicate just as well as the Decider?

Still, Peach wants to know why the Spaniards have not let us off the hook. Well, you see, Peach, the Spaniards had a flashback after their trains were bombed and they have steadily refused to adopt this writer’s suggestion that they replace SER with Alcanzar and IR wit Alzar. You see, Peach, violence never achieves anything. Had the Arabs not bombed the trains, the Spaniards may have been more receptive to my suggestion to change the revenge verbs for verbs that actually made sense. The problem, Peach, is that Alcanzar and Alzar are Arabic words, as are approximate 5000 other Spanish words, all left over from the Arabic conquer of Spain.

So, we’re stuck with two of the most pernicious revenge verbs and, you’re going to have to learn them. I suggest you start off with the purchase of a book called 501 Spanish Verbs

e, have blended Spanish and English and given birth to dialect called Mekatelyou!

You see the slaves and Jamaicans that came to Costa Rica and built the railroads, after the other populations had died from the extreme heat trying to do so, decided not to fuss with the revenge verbs; in fact they decided to blend and create their own dialect. Mekatelyou has largely dispensed with worrying about verbs much like the many gringos here in Costa Rica have dispensed with even trying to conjugate Spanish verbs. Many gringos here resort to communicating via infinitives. “Ir Samara,” “Querer unos `lechuga, ’” or “Comer gallopinto.” The Limonese just say “Yo goin’ dhere,” “My mudder me gru’” or something like that and go and have a nice day!

Now, before we get too chauvinistic, let’s not forget we in the United States are adopting similar practices. Just listen to the “Decider” and you will quickly realize that we can be creative with English too: Let’s go on the “internets,” because “mission accomplished,” we “stay the course,” but with “timetables.” Now who says the gringos and the Afro Costa Ricans can’t communicate just as well as the Decider?

Still, Peach wants to know why the Spaniards have not let us off the hook. Well, you see, Peach, the Spaniards had a flashback after their trains were bombed and they have steadily refused to adopt this writer’s suggestion that they replace SER with Alcanzar and IR wit Alzar. You see, Peach, violence never achieves anything. Had the Arabs not bombed the trains, the Spaniards may have been more receptive to my suggestion to change the revenge verbs for verbs that actually made sense. The problem, Peach, is that Alcanzar and Alzar are Arabic words, as are approximate 5000 other Spanish words, all left over from the Arabic conquer of Spain.

So, we’re stuck with two of the most pernicious revenge verbs and, you’re going to have to learn them. I suggest you start off with the purchase of a book called 501 Spanish Verbs

mission accomplished,” we “stay the course,” but with “timetables.” Now who says the gringos and the Afro Costa Ricans can’t communicate just as well as the Decider?

Still, Peach wants to know why the Spaniards have not let us off the hook. Well, you see, Peach, the Spaniards had a flashback after their trains were bombed and they have steadily refused to adopt this writer’s suggestion that they replace SER with Alcanzar and IR wit Alzar. You see, Peach, violence never achieves anything. Had the Arabs not bombed the trains, the Spaniards may have been more receptive to my suggestion to change the revenge verbs for verbs that actually made sense. The problem, Peach, is that Alcanzar and Alzar are Arabic words, as are approximate 5000 other Spanish words, all left over from the Arabic conquer of Spain.

So, we’re stuck with two of the most pernicious revenge verbs and, you’re going to have to learn them. I suggest you start off with the purchase of a book called 501 Spanish Verbs. But you should know that, I, unlike the U.S. Congress, am not taking bribes for promoting this book—in fact, I get paid not one cent for promoting it. Now, go learn Spanish!

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