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Tue 24 Aug, 2004 12:50 am
I've heard of that the Spanish word Quinceañera means a ceremony for a girl who just enters her 15 years old.
Please verify this.
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SAN SALVADOR -- Half an hour into the party, a chorus of angelic voices burst from the loudspeakers near the palm trees. An 8-year-old boy scurried toward the sound. Ducking and swerving through the hands stretching down to ruffle his brown hair, René Antonio Flores halted at the dance floor and gazed at the approaching Quinceañera.
A dark-haired beauty in pink tulle and shimmery satin, his sister Karen entered her 15th birthday party to a ripple of oohs. A line of girls in royal-blue dresses followed, among them his 16-year-old sister, Evelin.
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Re: Quinceañera
oristarA wrote:I've heard of that the Spanish word Quinceañera means a ceremony for a girl who just enters her 15 years old.
No oristarA, you're wrong.
Quinceañera is the girl.
The ceremony is called, simply, XV Años. (Quince años)
Veinteañero (a) is twentysomething
Treintañero(a) is thirtysomething
I answered it on the other lenguage forum about 2 weeks ago -_-;
This is my official my newbie able2know fever is now over post.
JoeFX wrote:
This is my official my newbie able2know fever is now over post.
What? My official? My newbie A2K fever?
I am totally confused by you.
Um... oops.
Let me rephrase that:
It's now official. My newbie fever is now over.
Re: Quinceañera
fbaezer wrote:oristarA wrote:I've heard of that the Spanish word Quinceañera means a ceremony for a girl who just enters her 15 years old.
No oristarA, you're wrong.
Quinceañera is the girl.
The ceremony is called, simply, XV Años. (Quince años)
Veinteañero (a) is twentysomething
Treintañero(a) is thirtysomething
Are you a Spanish?
Quinceañera means that the person is 15 years old, a teenager.
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Re: Quinceañera
oristarA, oh dear, now you teach me.
I have made a living out of writing. For more than a decade, now.
Casually, the first short story I published, way back in the early 70s, was called "Los XV Años".
Cool.
Los XV Años = Quinceañera
So I am confused by you now, Fbaezer.
Again...
the girl who is 15 = quinceañera
the party for the girl who turns 15 = Los XV años
or
the fifteen years = Los XV años
This party used to have the purpose of showing society the girl who had just become a woman so that men could set her eyes on her.
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