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in reply to a message by Llewella
I'm pretty sure Dar is an infinitive in Spanish meaning "to give, to grow", and I think it also means "but" in Romanian...
Where I live, it's used like the slang word "der" (people are probably saying der, but it sounds like dar if they have a strong accent): "an interjection, generally expressing one's own stupidity or pointing out the stupidity of another."
So it has an ambiguous meaning, but personally I associate it with stupidity. (If I didn't have that experience of the word/sound, I wouldn't mind it; also, it seems completely unisex to me.) I'd prefer Dare.
Where I live, it's used like the slang word "der" (people are probably saying der, but it sounds like dar if they have a strong accent): "an interjection, generally expressing one's own stupidity or pointing out the stupidity of another."
So it has an ambiguous meaning, but personally I associate it with stupidity. (If I didn't have that experience of the word/sound, I wouldn't mind it; also, it seems completely unisex to me.) I'd prefer Dare.
This message was edited 10/12/2015, 5:53 PM
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Yes, dar is the verb for to give in Spanish. And I did think of its similarity to "dur/der," but the vowel sound is different enough I can ignore it.
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