I know that the word "torpe" is used to describe someone that is, well, an idiot...but it is a very light very of idiot - maybe more like knucklehead.......but is "torpe" a condition of the eyes...like a lazy eye or something like that? Like '....como si me miro un torpe..."
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now someone (an Argentine and a Spaniard) here in Florida said a lazy eye is "tuerto"......i'm getting really confused.....has anybody heard the saying "parece que me ha mirado un torpe..." or is it "parece que me ha mirado un tuerto"?
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I guess lazy eye is 'ojo vago', it wasn�t uncommon when I was kid to see a boy with the good eye covered to make the lazy eye to work. As Blanca said torpe is someone with not great skills in something.
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originally posted by miguelito: I guess lazy eye is 'ojo vago', it wasn�t uncommon when I was kid to see a boy with the good eye covered to make the lazy eye to work.
Yes, boys like me... But far from improving, my eye transmitted its laziness to the rest of my body.
Alex.
(hmmm... that smiley up there seems to have a 'ojo vago' too...)
Tuerto is not exactly lazy eye, tuerto is someone with only one eye.
And I've told you "parece que me ha mirado un tuerto" it's a middle age superstition, they believe that if a tuerto looked at you, would throw a curse, lots of bad luck, so when everything seems to go wrong you say it looks like a tuerto has looked at me.
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tuerto, ta. (Del lat. tortus). 1. adj. Falto de la vista en un ojo. U. t. c. s. 2. adj. ant. De vista torcida. 3. m. Agravio que se hace a alguien. 4. m. pl. entuertos (ǁ dolores despu�s del parto).
number "2. adj. ant. De vista torcida." means someone with twisted vision (wandering eye), unlike the definition of "jer" = "someone with a twisted mind" :jeje:
I agree with Gringa. torpe is a clutze or clutzy person and tuerto is a person who is cross-eyed.
I over heard two Spanish guys talking in a bar. The first guy said that he had cousin that was 'tuerto' but he could still do things like drive. The second guy said that's nothing. I have an uncle who only had one eye, but that he could do even more things because he could really see 'la hostia' out of that eye...
You all are mixing "tuerto" and "bizco". And of course one thing is de first meaning and another thing is a meaning by extension...
Don Quijote was a "desfacedor de entuertos"... which are wrong things, twisted things, unfair things........and so on, so he wanted to put things right.
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