Spanish (American) Translation Needed...

Where's melaniehoo when you need 'er? I bet she'd know...

I'm hear but I'm better the other way around. my hubby will be home in an hour so I can check back then.

“But, Dad! I thought we wore the mask so we DIDN'T have to wash behind our ears!”

I don't have the spanish keyboard, so you know, exclamation points on both sides.

Pero, Papa/Papi! Yo pensaba que llevabamos la mascara para no tener que lavar atras de los sentidos!

(Actually, we'd probably say "orejas" instead of "sentidos" in our house cuz we'se ghetto like that. You can also use oidos for ears.)
Now, bear in mind that this is colloquial. Dama can probably give you a more grammatically correct translation, but this is how we'd say it around our house.

they say orejas here too, but perhaps that says something about where we are.

Oh, and the NO would be boldeded, for stressing the negative.

melaniehoo said:

they say orejas here too, but perhaps that says something about where we are.

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Orejas would be more commonly used in relaxed conversation, especially among kids. I never use sentidos, but I know it's the more proper word. Sometimes I do say oidos, but it sounds funny, doesn't it?

ha ha. spanish pun!

ETA: I spent my first two months here in a house with a 2-yr old, so he was learning all his body parts. Now I know them too.

Muy bien hecho!

wordmonkey said:

So, if I distilled this all correctly, THIS would be the correct translation?

¡Pero, Papi! ¡Yo pensaba que llevabamos la mascara para NO tener que lavar atras de los orejas!

With the inverted exclamation points at the start of any sentence that ends with a regular one, right?

Thanks you guys. This part of the forum is like a little gold mine!

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Oops wait! Sorry Monkey, didn't read carefully enough. It's LAS orejas.

In Spain you'd never EVER use 'sentidos' for ears!!!!! 'Sentidos' refers to the senses. 'Orejas' is used for animal ears, or the external part of the human ear. 'Oídos' is for human ears. And just for the record, a nose, ears and throat specialist is called an 'otolaringólogo'!

“But, Dad! I thought we wore the mask so we DIDN'T have to wash behind our ears!”

"¡pero, pá!, ¡pensé que usabamos las máscaras pa' no tener que lavarnos las orejas!"