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On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 11:21:08 -0600, J G DeBerry <jde636@airmail.net>
wrote:

>Lyn Pierce wrote:
>> 
>> In article <35165E2C.EE520B02@ti.com>,
>> LeAnne Davis  <leanne.davis@ti.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >...and "yo" means "I" not "you" so the appropriate familiar way to say it as
>> >a question is "Tu quiero Taco Bell?"
>> 
>> My Spanish is a bit rusty, but isn't it "Tu quieres Taco Bell?"
>
>Actually I haven't done any Spanish since High school and that
>was many years ago but I think that neither of you are correct.
>
>Yo quiero Taco Bell is I want Taco Bell. Tu quiero Taco Bell is
>You (fam) want Taco Bell. Neither is in the form of a question.
>Perhaps the question form is "Quieres tu Taco Bell? 
>
>What is all this stuff about Taco Bell anyway ain't that a Mexican
>phone company? Are they in Texas now?
>
>CHeers JdB

here's the spanish that i remember, and i did pretty well in spanish,
so it should be correct..
"tu quiero taco bell" is incorrect grammar, since "quiero" is the
first person conjugation of the verb "to want/desire", which i don't
remember what the un-conjugated form is...maybe "querar" or something
like that
the correct second person conjugation of is "quieres", so to say "you
want taco bell" you would say "tu quieres taco bell", but that is a
statement, not a question, so to make it a question, you must change
it to "te quieres taco bell?" for some reason or another...im almost
positive this is correct because when i was at marco's this weekend
the waiter couldn't speak much spanish so he asked "te quieres more
ice tea?"...
you can also ask using the proper usted form by saying "se quiere taco
bell?", but that form is usually only used as a formality, or so they
told me in spanish...

i'm curious how we can't figure this out, considering texas has one of
the largest hispanic populations in the US...*somebody* has got to
know for sure...

-brad