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Image description: Picture of a label with ingredients that has clearly been translated using machine translation: "soy protein" has been translated as "je suis proteine"


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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But isn’t Soy a state of being, like, the Soy is something you live briefly but isn’t a permanent state.

So, it’d be Estoy protein

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

other way around, ‘ser’ is more permanent/fixed while ‘estar’ is more ephemeral