Quick Spanish Translation

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Gabriel

(Posted 2012) [#1]

I'm trying to write something in Spanish, but my Spanish is not great.

What I'm aiming for is "Yes, sir, it was The Devil."

What I've got is

"Si, senor, fue El Diablo."

Does that sound/read natural in Spanish?

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Jesse

(Posted 2012) [#2]

correctly spelled it's like this:
"Si señor, fué El Diablo."

Gabriel

(Posted 2012) [#3]

Thanks, I have no idea where those keys are on my keyboard. Alt+something, I assume. Are you indicating that it's otherwise correct?

Jesse

(Posted 2012) [#4]

yes.

just copy and paste. :)

Gabriel

(Posted 2012) [#5]

Great, thanks. I will copy and paste. I was just explaining the lack of them being there in my original.

Kryzon

(Posted 2012) [#6]

Where's Yue when you need him...

Jesse

(Posted 2012) [#7]

I don't have a keyboard that handle those characters either But I usually write a small program that prints the ascii character along with it's number:

For Local i:Int = 160 To 255
   Print i+"   "+chr(i)
next

Then I either copy and paste or I use text+chr(xx)+text. That's what I did in this case.

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ziggy

(Posted 2012) [#8]

Hey, it's correct as long as the The Devil is a noun, someone called The Devil. Otherwise, if it is a "generic" devil, you know, Satan, etc. it should be:
"Si señor, fué el Diablo."
In the other hand, it's much more common in Spanish to call it this way:
"Si señor, fué el Demonio."
There are two words for "Devil": demonio and diablo. Both are correct but demonio sounds much more natural to me (I'm spanish from Spain. I'm not sure which one is more used in south american spanish countries)

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Jesse

(Posted 2012) [#9]

As I am aware in Latin America, the common name is "Diablo". "Demonio" is used as an alternative but mostly used for demons.

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