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Oct 31, 2007 13:59

UPD: I am starting to have strong unpleasant feelings towards Chilean florists in general ( Read more... )

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dichroic October 31 2007, 12:09:57 UTC
In my US high school, they taught us South American Spanish rather than Spain and hey did teach us usted but not vosotros.

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taelle October 31 2007, 12:20:49 UTC
Huh. We were taught pure Spanish...

Oh btw, maybe you know what to do, because I'm unused to credit card. I submitted card data and pressed the last button, and what I got at the end of the secure connection was blank page. I reloaded it and it said the cannot process my transaction right now and I should use the link below to go back. The link did not work and I went back by back button, but now I am worried. If I press 'submit credit card data' again, will they take my money for the second time, or have they not taken it yet?

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dichroic October 31 2007, 12:57:57 UTC
Good question and I would be worried too. I think since it said the link did not work, they probably did not charge your card. If there's a phone number you can call or a place to put a comment on the order form, I would tell them about the problem and ask them not to charge you twice.

If that happened to me with my US credit card, what I would do is to look at the card online and see if they'd charged it, but my Dutch credit card doesn't let me do that - don't know which way yours works, but this is one reason I hate the Dutch credit card system

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taelle October 31 2007, 13:55:00 UTC
For now I wrote to the shop I was ordering from to ask if they received a paid order (I'm not clear on how to contact the bank).

The card's not even mine, so the card owner is trying to reach her bank by phone to see if they charged her card. I hope some of these enquiries at least will come through.

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zafiro_v October 31 2007, 14:15:39 UTC
We use usted for people we don't know. But in Argentina and Chile, they use vos instead of tu, so they would use vosotros instead of ustedes.

Usted is not an old word, not at all. You use tu when you speak to a friend or someone you have just met but is almost your age, and usted for older people you know, or when you speak to someone you have just met and is not your friend-to-be. Usted is the polite word to use.

If I met your mother would use usted, unless she said I could use tu. We don't use vos in my country. I can't remember about Chile, but even if they use vos, when speaking to a person from another country the correct word is usted.

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taelle October 31 2007, 14:32:15 UTC
Ah, I see, thanks. I didn't know about vos.

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zafiro_v October 31 2007, 14:39:40 UTC
Welcome. Vos is like a dialect word from the south of South America.

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