USA CONDONES

[Dennis R. Preston]

Johanna,

Rusty maybe, but right on. "USE CONDOMS" it is.

dInIs

>But if you note that "usa" is a command form of "to use" and that
>"condones" looks a lot like the English word for "condoms" (which is
>probably not in the typical Spanish/English dictionary), what you
>actually have here is a safe sex ad.
>
>    Johanna, whose Spanish is rustier than it was four years ago
>
>Excerpts from mail: 16-Sep-100 USA CONDONES by Tim Frazer at MACOMB.COM
>> If USA CONODONES is Spanish, it doesn't parse for me.  I found a "condonar"
>> verb in my Spanish dictionary, but this, which otherwise looks like a
>> second-person singular inflection (-es), doesn't fit, unless it's an
>> imperative (but that would be "condona," right?) or some word sort of
>> subjunctive, which I never learned very well.


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