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Brad wrote:
> 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?"...

Isn't it quite possible you misheard the waiter say "tu quieres more tea".
Although it is what we Chicanerati call "code switching" or, appealing to the
baser folks out there, spiconics, it would be grammatically correct.

> 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...

Maybe if you were to actually ask a real live native spanish speaker they
would know.

Here's how it goes. 
Querer, the infinitive of to want, to desire
Querer a, the infinitive of to be in love with.
Te quiero a ti = I love you.  
Notice how the ti becomes the recipient of the verb quiero.
Yo quiero taco bell = I want taco bell.
Notice how there is no recipient of the action, quiero.
Yo quiero = I want
Tu Quieres = You want
El/Ella/Usted quiere = He/She/You (formal) wants
Nosotros queremos = we want
screw the Vosotros.

now to all of the above, append an a and a recipient of the object of desire,
and you're in love with it/them.