For you that lives in DR

[guandulera]

How do you interprete this parragraph from a merengue
Tu me tiene amarrao(a), me tiene aficiao(a) tu me estas volviendo loco(a) me tiene debaratao(debarata).........remember you can not translate this using a diccionary.....The meaning will be completly off

[Hillbilly]

Tu me tiene amarrao(a), me tiene aficiao(a) tu me estas volviendo loco(a) me tiene debaratao(debarata).........

First off, it is terribly poor Spanish.
You have me all tied up Word should be amarrado
You have me suffocating ( Or: You are smothering me!) Word should be asfixiado
You are driving me crazy
You have me in pieces (Or: You have be broke($) ) Word should be desbaratado

HB

[ExtremeR]

I imagine you heard that in a Bachata or Merengue song, Hillbilly yes it is poor Spanish but that is how Dominicans talk when in casual conversation (yes even educated ones).

Tu me tienes amarrao: You have me all tied up, that means that you cant let go that person.
Tu me tienes aficiao: You are suffocating me, but Dominicans use that word as if they are DEEEEPLY in LOVE like an obsession.
Tu me estas volviendo loco: You are driving me crazy, in this case is Crazy of love.
Tu me tiene debaratao: You have me a peace of former self, that is like that the person isn't taking care of himself because of the love/obsession that he/she haves for the other person.

[guandulera]

Originally Posted by Hillbilly

Tu me tiene amarrao(a), me tiene aficiao(a) tu me estas volviendo loco(a) me tiene debaratao(debarata).........

First off, it is terribly poor Spanish.
You have me all tied up Word should be amarrado
You have me suffocating ( Or: You are smothering me!) Word should be asfixiado
You are driving me crazy
You have me in pieces (Or: You have be broke($) ) Word should be desbaratado

HB

if a dominican female or male tell to a someone estoy aficia(o) de: it means that one is madly actracted to that someone. However if ones uses de correct word asfixiado it means exactly what the word implys...Yes we know the correct word but we also know that the correct way mean something and the fun or poor spanish one means another thing.

[mkohn]

Tu me tienes aficiao: you take my breath away ...
mkohn poet

[John Evans]

like we do in English- bad can mean good, wicked could mean good, gay now means lame etc its a way of children making new meanings so they think parents dont understand - it eventually gets accepted as a meaning in itself - rock on tommy

[Musicqueen]

Very uneducated thread!!!

[mariel]

Isn't that paragraph from an old Los Hermanos Rosario song?

[Chip]

Originally Posted by guandulera

How do you interprete this parragraph from a merengue
Tu me tiene amarrao(a), me tiene aficiao(a) tu me estas volviendo loco(a) me tiene debaratao(debarata).........remember you can not translate this using a diccionary.....The meaning will be completly off

guandulera - I thought you were a native Spanish speaker? If not, where are you from?

[guandulera]

[quote=Chip;636129]guandulera - I thought you were a native Spanish speaker? If not, where are you from?[/QUOTE

Yes I am. I'm pretty new in the forum and I found so many questions to the way we dominican speack that I decided to see if some would go furder than just critizicing and would go finding the meaning which most of the time has nothing to do with the words in the dictionary.