Language Tennis: How do you say "cheaper?"

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Comparatives are wonderful words and I think they are really good tools for practical learning.


If I were shopping around for a sturdy, inexpensive cellphone case, and I saw some that were too expensive I might ask, "Do you have some others that are cheaper than these?" That's technically correct, but a bit unwieldy. It's nothing you'd really say in a conversational tone. Better to ask, "Got anything cheaper?"  


If you were bargain-hunting in your native language, how would you say "Got anything cheaper?" ^_^

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Tendrás algo mas barato? :)


Cheaper - Barato

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Why is this titled "language tennis"?

In Thailand now. Next up Tanzania and Philippines.

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leosmith wrote:
Why is this titled "language tennis"?


Maybe it's an idiom? Throwing words one after the other like how tennis balls bounce back and forth.  

Aleks

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Aleksys.P wrote:
leosmith wrote:
Why is this titled "language tennis"?

Maybe it's an idiom? Throwing words one after the other like how tennis balls bounce back and forth. :thinking_face:


That certainly seems to be an idiom of that nature. Hmmmm. :thinking_face: I wonder what the poster was thinking?


Lol, just kidding. Where I come from, any activity that allows others to comment on or explain the same thing but in their own language was called "language tennis."  

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