A menudo utilizamos palabras y expresiones que suenan menos directas o no muy exactas ni precisas.
Enumeramos algunas de ellas en el siguiente artículo.
1.- Cuando No Sabemos El Nombre De Algo
- What do you call it?
Tim has to have a test, what do you call it?
- Or something.
Look at that dog. It's a kind of poodle or something.
- Stuff
What kind of stuff do you use for painting?
- Thing
Fred, please bring me the thing to clean the windows.
2.- Para Sonar Menos Directo
- Sort of
There's sort of something I don't like about this place.
- Kind of
It's kind of expensive.
- Stuff
I have too much stuff to do.
- Thing
I forgot a lot of things yesterday.
- About
It's about eight o'clock.
- More or less
I've been working here for more or less 5 years.
3.- Para Nombrar Grupos o Categorías
- And things like that.
There are rings, earrings and things like that.
NOTA.- Otras expresiones de uso similar son:
- And that kind of thing.
- And stuff like that.
- And that type of thing.
- And that sort of thing.
4.- Vague Expressions Usados De Manera No Educada (Impolite)
En este caso se utilizan "Stuff", "Whatever", "Whenever", "Whoever" y "Whichever" de forma común.
- Dialog 1:
A: What did you do at school today?
B: Stuff!
- Dialog 2:
A: You spend too much time talking on the phone.
B: Whatever!
