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Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

o sea

English translation:

yah / I say

Added to glossary by Nedra Rivera Huntington
Mar 17, 2011 22:19
13 yrs ago
Spanish term

o sea

Non-PRO Spanish to English Art/Literary General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
I hope this will be a fun one.

This is from a description of a children's game for a P.E. class (Spain). The children have to create the sound effects for a horse race narrated by the teacher. At one point, the hoses ride past the stands where the "pija" people are, and the children have to say, "o sea, o sea, o sea."

My brain is mush and I can't seem to come up with an appropriate English equivalent. I am thinking about "darling", but welcome any other suggestions.

British English or neutral English only, please.

Thanks in advance.
Proposed translations (English)
3 +3 yah or I say?
5 'orsey, 'orsey, 'orsey
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Discussion

Cristina Talavera Mar 18, 2011:
de momento tampoco se me ocurre nada ingenioso!
Nedra Rivera Huntington (asker) Mar 17, 2011:
Yes. I just can't come up with a good choice in English. My brain keeps trying to channel AbFab, without much luck!
Cristina Talavera Mar 17, 2011:
nedra, o sea, o sea, is mocking the way a "pija" -a "preppy" in the US, if that expression still exists- would speak and pronounce; the expression "o sea" is often used to imitate "pija speech". Your suggestion of "darling" would work, as would "lovely".

Proposed translations

+3
14 mins
Selected

yah or I say?

perhaps 'yah, yah, yah' - which has the advantage of also sounding like something you would say to a horse (posh way of saying yes).

or I say, I say, I say - which has the advantage of sounding like the Spanish. Though it is also the opener for a joke... :)
Note from asker:
Great ideas! Thank you.
Peer comment(s):
agree Charles Davis : Your first suggestion is just right: "Chelsea proper, the true stomping ground of all the "yah" "yah" Sloanes" (http://www.antimoon.com/forum/t12112.htm)
1 hr
agree Simon Bruni : both nice options
10 hrs
agree Elizabeth Slaney : I rather like "I say" and it's funny but it sounds similar to the Spanish.
14 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Great, thanks so much! I went with "yah" in the end."
15 mins

'orsey, 'orsey, 'orsey

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Peer comment(s):
neutral Isamar : I don't think "pijos" would drop the "h". It's the opposite, a snobbish word that is called for here in my opinon.
9 hrs
OK thanks for that
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