Re: Some help with Latin

>ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> wrote:
>hacer una foto 'take a picture' (IIRC)
I've always heard/said, "tomar fotos," "take photos."  Nowadays "tomar"
widely means "to drink."  There is a line in the Catholic Mass taken
from the Last Supper: "take and drink, etc."  In this case, "tomar"
cannot be used for "drink" so the line is rendered: "tomen y beben" so
there is still some feeling of the meaning "to take."

I should think that in English the wild card word is "to get."

Charlie

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