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[PATCH] Add Spanish translation for refcard.tex

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From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 76300 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616 <at> gmail.com>, Cecilio Pardo <cpardo <at> imayhem.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#76300: [PATCH] Add Spanish translation for refcard.tex
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:03:53 -0300

Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net> writes:

> On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 09:37:30 -0300 Mauro Aranda 
<maurooaranda <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net> writes:
>>
>>> On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 07:35:42 -0300 Mauro Aranda 
<maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>
>>>>>+La especificaci{\'o}n \kbd{interactive} dice c{\'o}mo leer 
argumentos de
>>>>
>>>> "como", since we're not asking a question.
>>>
>>> But isn't this an indirect question?  Cf. "No sé cómo hacerlo" 
(from Butt,
>>> Benjamin and Moreira Rodríguez (2019) A New Reference Grammar of Modern
>>> Spanish (6th ed), p. 354).
>>>
>>
>> Doesn't sound like an indirect question to me.  If it were "Emacs asks
>> ..." or something like that, then yes.
>>
>> I might be entirely wrong.  I'm a native speaker but my last lesson of
>> Spanish Grammar was in school, several years ago.
>
> I'm not a native speaker of Spanish, only learned it at school, but that
> was much longer than several years ago....  But I think indirect
> questions can be introduced by more than interrogative verbs like "ask",
> cf. 
<https://www.rae.es/gram%C3%A1tica/sintaxis/interrogativos-y-exclamativos-iv-c%C3%B3mo-y-por-qu%C3%A9-locuciones-que-se-les-asimilan>:
> "No vi cómo lo hizo."  However, that page says both are possible:
>

Of course, that was just an example.

> "En la construcción /Ya verás cómo consigue ganar/ (con el adverbio
> interrogativo cómo), se hace referencia a la manera de conseguir
> algo. En cambio, en /Ya verás como consigue ganar/, la conjunción como
> introduce una subordinada completiva que alude al propio hecho de la
> consecución".
>
> I have no intuition on this distinction, so leave the resolution to the
> native speakers.
>

Difference is that in this case the sentence is an affirmative
sentence.

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