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聽 聽 @Mr. Barley Question: why'd you marry her in the first place?

聽 聽 -@ChineduOpara

Stupidity, I suppose. However, if it were not for my health issues, we would probably be still together.

@Mr. Barley Sorry to hear that. All the best with the health issues. I empathize cuz I have health issues of my own, hence I am currently living in Colombia for a while in order to address them without going completely bankrupt in the dUSA. I still haven't met anyone for a committed relationship, however... let alone a wife. It's all LDFG (Liars, Deceivers, Flakes, and Ghosts) up and down all walks of life in Colombian culture. It is what it is. This is not a country for finding a committed, honest, monogamous partner under age 35.

So, in a manner of speaking, you have (or at least had) it better than me... assuming that your marriage was real not a sham, you had a chance to Love and Be Loved by an individual of the opposite gender. This simple human thing still eludes a large population of the species, and I never expected to fall into that "die without love and without offspring" demographic... until 49 years later I'm like... well, crap... I guess one cannot cheat nor deny Statistics and Destiny 馃し馃従鈥嶁檧锔忦煒�

Despite the realization that - due to no fault of mine and despite all my Best Efforts and Attempts - I will likely die alone and unloved, there's a silver lining: at least I can afford occasional household help and human company ("empleada") in my current active years, and - absent some catastrophic economic upheaval 馃捀馃挶 - I'll be able to afford part-time in-home care in my waning years... two things that are totally unaffordable in the healthcare-poor, socially isolating, and depression-wracked dUSA.

Since you are in said country, however, I do hope your health issues are being resolved. If one does not consider the criminally and needlessly exorbitant costs and bureaucracy, healthcare in the States is among the best in the world.

Hey, Where's Wes says he likes not being starred at for a change in Thailand .

Livestreamer Loren said something similar once about being Armenia. Of course, he has brown eyes and hair.

Live Streamer Loren recommends to "go chill" between 1 and 3 p.m. in order to deal with the current heat wave in Armenia. He did not elaborate on possible options.

Go chill is not about options.聽 In this case it means

stay indoors and use A.C. if you have it.

cccmedia

@Mr. Barley Wes sounds like a naive nutbar to me.
We dont hear his EXs side of the story.

I know a guy with similar " death threat" situations in Colombia, and he had to leave.

I told this story on another thread on this site.

I can tell you he got into that situation due to his own stupdity. I would bet a million dollars Wes's situation is the same, he could have avoided it easily and still have a good time in Colombia.
-@nico peligro

Nico you hit the nail on the head with this weasel Wes. His latest video is from Bangkok where during one of his walkabout monlogues he alleged that Asians are slow to commit crime against other Asians because they "look the same" and are a "homogenuous" people. This while anyone who halfway paid attention in 8th grade history class knows that Asian against Asian atrocites and crimes have been no less than any other. But since he surely brought that ethnocentrism to his marriage in Colombia the result isn't surprising.

PS The so called "death threats" could easily be fake and a play for sympathy from his YouTube audience.

Yes you can purchase a cell phone even without the benefit of a cedula, you can even purchase a SIM card for a few pesos, like 5 or 10 mil from eiether carriers like Tigo or Claro, BUT then you can only subscribe for a prepago plan, pay as you go as you have no established credit yet. But still a way to have the use of a cell phone in Colombia.
-@South American Voyager

Hello South American Voyager and everyone else in this thread,聽 聽In 2021 I bought a cheap phone and a sim card in Bogot谩 as a foreigner without anyone ever asking me for a passport.聽 The phone worked for about a month on prepagado plans but then would not work anymore.

My Colombian girlfriend called the company聽 (I cannot remember which company but it was either Claro or Tigo) and they said that the phone had to be registered to a single owner or the company would not turn it on.聽 That happened just after we had bought credit and my girlfriend was upset about it and I remember her asking the rep several times in a row in a stern voice聽 "Cual es su nombre?"

That was how I learned to ask "Cual es su nombre?"聽 instead of "Que es tu nombre?" , by hearing it about six times in a short period of only two or so minutes in a heated situation, and that's why I remember the story so vividly.

Yes...if you are going to use a Colombia SIM card, you need to register the phone. They ask for this to make sure the phone is not stolen. You do *NOT* need a receipt of your phone's purchase. They might ask for it, but if it's clear you are a tourist, or foreigner, you can easily argue your case to not have it.
-@mtbe

I don't believe they care about whether or not the phone is stolen.聽 What they do care about is databasing every phone to an owner and then collecting the metadata of that information and the metadata of contacts and calls in order to aggregate and draw on-demand social interaction maps for the purpose of behavioral analysis and social engineering.

My Colombian girlfriend called the company (I cannot remember which company but it was either Claro or Tigo) and they said that the phone had to be registered to a single owner or the company would not turn it on. That happened just after we had bought credit and my girlfriend was upset about it and I remember her asking the rep several times in a row in a stern voice "Cual es su nombre?"

That was how I learned to ask "Cual es su nombre?" instead of "Que es tu nombre?" , by hearing it about six times in a short period of only two or so minutes in a heated situation, and that's why I remember the story so vividly.
-@rf2023

Well... that's DEFINITELY one way to learn new phrases in a foreign language 馃榿

That was how I learned to ask "Cual es su nombre?" instead of "Que es tu nombre?" , by hearing it about six times in a short period of only two or so minutes in a heated situation, and that's why I remember the story so vividly.
-@rf2023

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I don't see anything wrong with 驴Qu茅 es tu/su nombre?, 'su' being the formal vs. 'tu' informal or familiar. '驴C贸mo se llama usted?' is another option -- literally: How do you call yourself?

There are two Spanish-language learning threads accessible from the welcome page of the 海角乱伦 Ecuador forum, including 'espa帽ol for Gringos'.

cccmedia

-@rf2023
Well... that's DEFINITELY one way to learn new phrases in a foreign language 馃榿
-@ChineduOpara

Absolutely.聽 Before that day, I didn't understand how to use "Cual" vs "Que" when asking someone's name!

But from that day forward, I sure knew how to ask somebody "Cual es su nombre?" or "Cual es tu nombre."

It was like a magic formula for me.聽 聽To hear somebody repeat a limited concept over and over again in a high stress situation lasting only a couple of minutes.聽 聽Somehow it got burned into my brain with no effort from me.聽 聽And it gave me alot of insight into language acquisition, it gave me a sure example that I could understand from my own personal experience.

My girlfriend is now my wife so these days I deliberately taunt her to make her angry enough to shout things to me in Spanish so that I can learn those words without any effort from me.聽 聽(That's a joke of course, I love my wife so much!)

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I don't see anything wrong with 驴Qu茅 es tu/su nombre?, 'su' being the formal vs. 'tu' informal or familiar. '驴C贸mo se llama usted?' is another option -- literally: How do you call yourself?

There are two Spanish-language learning threads accessible from the welcome page of the 海角乱伦 Ecuador forum, including 'espa帽ol for Gringos'.

cccmedia
-@cccmedia

hello cccmedia, the problem is not su vs tu, it is Cual vs Que

Do any latino-americanos say "Qu茅 es tu/su nombre?" .聽 I don't know.聽 But in Bogot谩, the way I've heard them talk, I can attest that they don't say "Qu茅 es tu/su nombre?"聽 , they say only聽 "Cu谩l es tu/su nombre?"聽 .

From my experience!聽 Anyone know how the question is asked in other parts of Colombia or other countries in Latin America?聽

@rf2023 I live in Barranquilla, where they speak Coste帽ol. When someone manages to speak without dropping 55% of their syllables (and ALL their "s" sounds), what I have heard is "C贸mo te llamas" (or the slightly more formal "C贸mo se llama")... though with Coste帽ol it's often difficult to hear the difference.

However, in situations where someone is filling out a form and asks for my name, they often say something that includes "nombre" (first name) and "apellido" (last name), and neither word has the "s" sound, so there is almost nothing to drop. This makes life easier for me at that moment, so I know exactly what they are asking me for, and can respond accordingly and unambiguously: "Me llamo Chinedu Saint Pascal Opara... el nombre es Chinedu, el apellido es Opara") 馃憤

@cccmedia they always understand me when I say that. Of course the do. I think maybe his girlfriend was grammaticaly incorrect

"Cual es tu nombre" would be used when someone is asking about several name tags聽 . which one is yours

Colombians also say "Que hora son?" , which is grammatically incorrect as well

Many other examples of improper castellano. Every country or region have their dialect.

Actually, I didi google translate and Cual es tu nombre is correct, fro some strange reason