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18/07/2007 14:17:29
 
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>>>>>>There are no nouns in the sentence. Unless you refer to hearing the Spanish for a lady of ill-repute?
>>>>>
>>>>>Now you are getting close.
>>>>
>>>>In French it's "une pute", short for "putain"

>>>
>>>Yeah, but what was written was a masculine noun and with 're' in front to stress on it. :-)
>>
>>Well my Spanish isn't up to much. "reputo" - "I repute" I think, so I don't see what you're getting at. Sorry
>
>
>Puta = prostitute (putting it politely)


That's the female gender of the word. The male gender of it (ending in "o") has a very different meaning: a very pejorative word for homosexual.


Alex Feldstein, MCP, Microsoft MVP
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