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Sellout · 2013-04-13 23:06:57

This would, at any previous time in my life, go in the "Making & Creating" forum, since all of the Spanish love letters I had seen before were ones that I'd written on my own whether it was solely to practice my Spanish and creatively express infatuation for another person or because I wanted to practice my Spanish and creatively exercise my writing skills. So pretty much what I did was write fictional love letters in Spanish or non-fictional ones (With no intention of sending them) in my free time, and I did this a pretty great deal. And I didn't always know very much Spanish at all (I still don't) so I've had to get pretty crafty with making things sound romantic with my limited vocabulary e_e

So before I'd always been writing them, but now I've finally got the chance to read a real one, and in the (second) best possible way: I found it written on the back cover of a book (of Spanish sonnets, that I got second-hand) (I'm assuming the actual best possible way to've read one would be to have one written and sent to me :,( A girl can dream!)

So yeah. It was very strange. I always wanted to find some cryptic letter or notes or something written or stuck in a book (I've always thumbed through used/library book pages to see if anything of interest'd been tucked in)

My Spanish isn't that great and neither was the person's handwriting but I can make out most of it

It's a little specific of a thing to be reading, but I guess you can discuss anything unexpected you've ever found hidden in a book :U I've found business cards and things mostly

Waffle27 · 2013-04-13 23:22:18

There was this one time in a book where it was one of those donate a book things. I picked up a random book and there was this Happy Birthday letter to somebody hmm

veggieman001 · 2013-04-13 23:24:00

i started writing one to someone recently but then i realised they wouldnt care and i tore it up

Sellout · 2013-04-13 23:24:28

Waffle27 wrote:
There was this one time in a book where it was one of those donate a book things. I picked up a random book and there was this Happy Birthday letter to somebody

.... ;_;

I hate it when I get a really old book with someone's name written on the inside cover because the first thing that I think is "This person is probably dead now" and I can't help it

Sellout · 2013-04-13 23:28:14

veggieman001 wrote:
i started writing one to someone recently but then i realised they wouldnt care and i tore it up

That's too bad

soupoftomato · 2013-04-14 00:28:57

veggieman001 wrote:
i started writing one to someone recently but then i realised they wouldnt care and i tore it up

Are love letters written in Spanish this big of a thing

The most meaningful thing I've found written is a book is our family's copy of Half-Blood Prince where my mom speculated "Regulus Black?" in the margins next to "RAB" and spoiled the plot point for me.

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veggieman001 · 2013-04-14 00:29:54

soupoftomato wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
i started writing one to someone recently but then i realised they wouldnt care and i tore it up
Are love letters written in Spanish this big of a thing

i write lots of things in spanish so it's not really that big of a deal

Sellout · 2013-04-14 00:31:19

soupoftomato wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
i started writing one to someone recently but then i realised they wouldnt care and i tore it up
Are love letters written in Spanish this big of a thing

I don't think so. I just do it because it's fun to see what I can come up with when I hardly know anything in the language

Like with body parts, I didn't learn "heart" but I did learn "head" so instead of saying "baby i lov u ur always in my heart" I had to say "in my head"!! I don't know why that particular example came to mind first but it did

soupoftomato · 2013-04-14 00:36:12

Sellout wrote:
soupoftomato wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
i started writing one to someone recently but then i realised they wouldnt care and i tore it up
Are love letters written in Spanish this big of a thing
I don't think so. I just do it because it's fun to see what I can come up with when I hardly know anything in the language

Like with body parts, I didn't learn "heart" but I did learn "head" so instead of saying "baby i lov u ur always in my heart" I had to say "in my head"!! I don't know why that particular example came to mind first but it did

My knowledge of Spanish is very, very, very limited so I can't fathom how I would write a love letter in the language.

Wickimen · 2013-04-14 00:50:29

A me le gusta tu.

Wickimen · 2013-04-14 00:52:13

Porque tu es guapísimo xDDD

Sellout · 2013-04-14 00:56:24

I'd be totally chill with actually posting mine if I wasn't worried about them being picked apart by people who know Spanish better than I do :,( I'm too sensitive for criticism! +They aren't that interesting. Some are a little personal but you wouldn't know which ones are real xDDD

soupoftomato · 2013-04-14 01:07:52

Wickimen wrote:
Porque tu es guapísimo xDDD

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Wickimen · 2013-04-14 01:16:58

soup r u mocking me

technoguyx · 2013-04-14 17:45:19

soupoftomato wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
i started writing one to someone recently but then i realised they wouldnt care and i tore it up
Are love letters written in Spanish this big of a thing

I'd guess it's kinda like writing one in French: there's something oddly romantic about letters in languages foreign to one. Plus, Spanish is very open to metaphors and figurative senses, allowing one that knows the language to write some crazy poetry big_smile

I'm a native Spanish speaker myself, but the closest thing to a love letter I've done are ideas for song lyrics (which I never finish)

Haces que estas manos heladas
se sientan humanas y cálidas.
Haces que esta indecente morada
parezca un palacio ideal.

Unexpected things in books? Well, I hide my money in books so I don't spend it all at once. :U

genderdysmorphia · 2013-04-14 17:56:20

i got a spanish love letter in nursery once
i couldnt read it and had to get my parents to jointly read it ~AS IT WAS~ because my mum is better at reading in spanish, and my dad is better at speaking it
i never spoke to her again

luiysia · 2013-04-14 19:22:12

there's a note in this bible my grandma stole from a hotel in michigan (she thought it was ours and didn't know that in america they leave bibles in hotels)

it reads, in all caps and blue ballpoint:

' 1-22-99

Peanut,
I'm going to meet the lady to see the apartment across, then Im [sic] going to court at 10:AM [sic], then work at 11:30 even though I might be late. Thanks for not showing up last night, I guess I might as well get use [sic] to you not being there for me this is court date #2 and you have not been there.

Thanks [this bit is partially torn off but still readable]
4-nothing leave my cheese
Tyesh [?? illegible] $140.00
at the front desk

not really a love letter but still something I found in an old book

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Sellout · 2013-04-14 19:23:01

"leave my cheese at the front desk"

:'(

luiysia · 2013-04-14 19:50:02

a true masterpiece of the 20th century
so much pathos :')

Sellout · 2013-04-22 18:22:57

I just found a Christmas card in another book I got used :T

genderdysmorphia · 2013-04-29 16:17:13

im kinda upset cos ive never got anything in a used book, and ive had a lot
(except a love letter between my grandparents lol)

angelica101 · 2013-04-29 16:48:09

Derp. Once I found a $25 iTunes Giftcard in a book... It was used tongue
I speak Venezuelan Spanish :3 Parents grew up there.
Te quiero-I love you
Meh, I've never written a love letter. I've never liked anyone, no one's ever liked me. I love being me. No one EVER makes rumors about me cause I'm a harsh, selfish, bad looking derp. And that's how I like it.

zubblewu · 2013-04-29 16:53:45

angelica101 wrote:
No one EVER makes rumors about me cause I'm a harsh, selfish, bad looking derp.

is that really what you think? people like to prey on the weakest

Sellout · 2013-04-29 17:20:09

People've made rumours about me, but they've been interesting as heck. I've heard that I've gotten pregnant, moved to Alaska, got hooked on cocaine, moved to Alaska and got hooked on cocaine, did a stint in the mental health ward, and died (only the first and second to last are true but they weren't at the time of the rumours)

That's what happens when you suddenly leave school and leave the reasoning to 13 year olds. I don't mind it and I never did, it's creative and flattering if anything

The only rumour spread about me that I didn't like was that I was an atheist. I am totally comfortable in my Jewish faith

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angelica101 · 2013-04-29 17:50:00

zubblewu wrote:
angelica101 wrote:
No one EVER makes rumors about me cause I'm a harsh, selfish, bad looking derp.
is that really what you think? people like to prey on the weakest

Totally sure
3 of my best friends are boys
One is a girl
One of them moved up from 3rd grade to my grade (5th) and yeah no suspicions
BOTH had a rumor about them and the my friend (the girl)
Me?
I think they're to scared.
Boom.

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