Medellin Reports

[Huacho]

"yes of course love I charge 250 plus taxi".

You do know that means 250 thousand pesos colombianos and not 250 Yew Ess dollars, right? So a little over sixty dollars.

[Nounce]

... It will be a cold day in hell before I pay some shit like that.

I have paid 250 when the exchange rate was 2900. I was fully aware of the going rate and been in Medellin for a while. Sometimes (but not always) a little (but not too much, LOL) flexibility does not hurt, and like JB says, one can negotiate more time.

[Nounce]

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Finally, there is 'apocopation. ' That means that if you have a masculine noun, you drop the final 'o' from the indefinite article. Un peso and ...

Thank you, I did not know that and have been wondering about it!

[AtlNightmare]

This is a message from a FB chick in Medellin this morning "yes of course love I charge 250 plus taxi". I only said it would be nice to meet her when I arrived LOL. She did not beat around the Bush I see but I told her I would have to pass. I know it is not everyone but yeah those prices are out there I see. It will be a cold day in hell before I pay some shit like that.

[Huacho]

In Spanish, the only Romance language in which I consider myself fluent, there are two main things to remember when considering gender. First, although there are very few words that end in -o that are feminine, la mano being the only common one, there are quite a few verbs that are masculine but end in -a. The good news there is, most of those end in -ma and have Greek rather than Latin origin. The most common one is el problema but you have el drama, el tema, etc. One that does not follow that pattern is el planeta.

Then you have the fact that if a feminine noun begins with an unstressed 'a' or 'ha,' the article reverts to 'el' even though the noun remains feminine. Common examples would be el arma and el hacha. This is to avoid 'glottal stops' and make the language flow more smoothly. Try it both ways. Say 'la hacha' and then 'el hacha' and you will see what I mean. This is not necessary in the plural versions las armas and las hachas. Those would be pronounced like 'la sarmas' and 'la sachas' and don't require the pause or gottal stop.

Finally, there is 'apocopation. ' That means that if you have a masculine noun, you drop the final 'o' from the indefinite article. Un peso and not uno peso. Tercer piso and not tercero piso. Buen theía and not bueno theía. Those are all examples of apocopation, which does not exist on the feminine side of things.

Also remember the rules apply to numbers as well, both cardinal and ordinal. Doscientos pesos, doscientas mujeres. La tercera vez, el cuarto cuarto (the fourth quarter of a game, sounds very funny to angloparlantes).

[JustTK]

They are all the same. It is a common characteristic of Romance languages (Latin-based languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian) that things are assigned a gender and the article (the, a, one, two) that refers to the word must coincide with the gender assigned to that word.

You could jump ahead of the times and start practising with an -"e" now. There is already a movement among educated younger people:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/w...-language.html

[Jefferson1993]

Wondering if anyone who has been to both Cartagena and Medellin would share their opinion for me. I was in Cartagena last summer and had a great time, wondering if I should hit it again or try Medellin.

Things I enjoyed about Cartagena:

-Had no issue not being fluent in Spanish (Google translate and such).

-Loved the club scene for picking up girls (places like Space).

-Beaches weren't bad either.

-Enjoyed the general attitude of girls I was with. Didn't feel rushed to finish or anything. Just about all gave BBBJ before.

-Looking for caramel to brown complexion, not into the darker almost black so much.

-Usually paid 250 K for short time with multiple finishes, didn't do more that 300 K.

Any feedback you can give me on Medellin vs Cartagena on the above points is appreciated. Also thinking about trying Rio.

[Osteoknot]

They are all the same. It is a common characteristic of Romance languages (Latin-based languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian) that things are assigned a gender.

A group of 999,999 females and you add one male and that flips the gender from feminine to masculine? Show me something, anything, that is more sexist than that, jajajaja.

[Mr Enternational]

Haha, using similar logic, I think Portuguese is ahead by just a hair in that regard. Portuguese has um / uma for 1, and dois / duas for 2. It also has a many more contractions based on gender.

Maybe Mr E can chime in here.

They are all the same. It is a common characteristic of Romance languages (Latin-based languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian) that things are assigned a gender and the article (the, a, one, two) that refers to the word must coincide with the gender assigned to that word.

No easy way or pattern. You just learn the gender of each word with experience from hearing or using it. It really gets fucked up when a thing in one of the languages is considered masculine, but in one of the other languages is considered feminine. But those are really rare. Most things have the same gender across the languages.

[Nounce]

Just asking'?

Haha, using similar logic, I think Portuguese is ahead by just a hair in that regard. Portuguese has um / uma for 1, and dois / duas for 2. It also has a many more contractions based on gender.

Maybe Mr E can chime in here.

[Zeos1]

This whole argument is so useless.

The only thing I know is that if someone says. Oh, she was a 9, or 8, or 10. He really liked her, or how she looked, or something. That's all I hear.

And if I then see her, meet her, whatever, and it isn't that way for me I just think, well, different strokes for different folks. That's a.

[Osteoknot]

I don't like to go with hookers who do drugs, partly because I don't want to share my drugs, but I do just want to point out one more time, and only one more time, that a 'sacalero' would be a GUY. I don't care what people are into, and I know I pointed this out one time before, and I won't point it out a third time. But in Spanish the adjective has to match the noun in both number and gender. And, the male gender dominates if there are both genders in the group.

Sacaleros: Glue sniffers in general but at least one must be male. If you have 100 glue sniffers and even one is male, they are all 'sacaleros.'

Sacalero: One male glue sniffer.

Sacalera: One female glue sniffer.

Sacaleras: More than one female glue sniffer. Every single glue sniffer must be female. Even one male turns the whole group into 'sacaleros.'

So I don't care who is looking for sacaleros and who is looking for sacaleras. I just want to make sure everybody gets what they are looking for:

Just asking'?

[ColombiaLover]

I agree with that. A rating would be a lot different, in most cases, if you factor in personality, performance, genuineness. And let's face it, most of these 9-10's (the high-end girls people talk about) only look that good because of surgery, treatments and make-up. A true judge of beauty, to me, is seeing a girl when she gets out of the shower. No make-up, no hair done. Most of these 9-10's lose their "value" without their make-up clothes and surgeries / enhancements, IMO.

You fail to understand that 1-10 scale is used to assess LOOKS only. When you a see a girl online or in person, you have no clue how she will perform in bed if you ever get to fuck her. There is no way to know this in advance. There are too many factors that affect her performance and attitude. But we all believe our eyes. If you show girl's photos to 100 mongers asking them to rate her LOOKS and she receives an average score of, say, 8. 3 - she is a solid 8, period. Some mongers would rate her 6, some 7, others 9, but the average number can't lie. And if that 8. 3 girl gives you a shitty service, she is still solid 8, because none of that matters. Why is it so difficult to understand? Your "bad, okay, good" scale is totally useless and makes no sense, nobody here will ever use it.

[JustTK]

But to this young woman, it was apparently the highest compliment -- she blushed right up to the roots of her hair.

BUt the big Q is. Did you manage to FK her in the swimming pool after everyone went to bed?

[JustTK]

You fail to understand that 1-10 scale is used to assess LOOKS only. Why is it so difficult to understand?

I understand it perfectly well. My little test is to highlight that looks are really irrelevant alone (and to have a bit of fun). So how would you rate Barbie? . And in the contexts that I gave?

Your "bad, okay, good" scale is totally useless and makes no sense, nobody here will ever use it.

I understand that you don't like ti. But why do you think it makes no sense, and how do you know that no one here will ever use it?