Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Que mas and Como estas?

Well, cool things are not just math :-)

Taking lead from some of my Spanish-speaking friends, once I said "Que mas" to a Mexican.

He got confused.

Quite rightfully so - I asked him "What else?" before I spoke with him about anything else!


In Colombia, the typical informal greeting is "Que mas?", literally, "what else?", whereas in Mexico, you say "Como estas?" meaning "How are you"?

So though they speak the same language, some of the idioms are quite different.


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