So when the girl [ at the end of the dialogue ] says "listo" is she referring to the fact that the signed piece of paper [ the "recibo" ] is ready ?

I know that sometimes when I'm in a cafe and signing a credit card, the waiter maybe walks away for a minute. I catch his eye and say 'I'm ready". Which sort of means I myself am ready for him to come and take the paper, not really referring to the fact that the paper is signed and "listo".

Dave

Dave

they quite often get the sex of the speaker wrong, i suspect they working from a script and the dialogue is edited in later.

That's one explanation. The other explanation is that JP and Lili refer to the gender of the characters and Esti is speaking the male(!) character and Leo the female(!) character. :)

Dear: lilianamata

¿Como firmas?  -> Actualy means How do you sing?

Its sounds almost incoherence as you might see. They might refer if you write youre name in cursive or manuscript.  

Dave:

"Listo" can be utilized to mean "Done, finish, ready, etc." 

You can use this as answer when doing something - “Listo”

“Lista” – can be utilize when a female tell other female she is ready.

Depending the sentence is how you apply the word… Its practice.

Anna8 - what you have said makes a lot of sense to me.

Is this right ?:

If two people are asking about the other's 'state of readiness", they will use the ending of listo/lista which is appropriate to the preson being spoken TO.

e.g. speaking TO a male: listo is used [ male or female SPEAKER ]

speaking TO a female: lista is used [ male or female SPEAKER ]

Someone [ male or female ] making a general statement about their "state of readiness" [ without being asked ]: "listo" [ I'm ready ].

Dave

I'd say it's more like this.  In the first use of listo/lista as an adjective meaning "ready", it agrees in gender and number with the person or thing it refers to, not the person speaking.

Anna:  ¿Estás listo, Dave?

Dave:  Sí, estoy listo.  ¿Estás lista, Anna?

Anna:  Sí, estoy lista.

For the second use of listo as a sort of exclamation or shorthand sentence meaning done, we're usually referring to a situation or action, not one specific person or thing. Check out this conversation from the wordreference forum.  It's interesting because the question comes from a native Spanish speaker asking how to translate this use of listo into English:

Question:

 

Listo = terminado?

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Esta es la situación:

Me envía un email un cliente solicitándome un cambio en una pagina web. A client sends me an email asking for a change in a web page
Hago lo que me pide y abro mi messenger.  I do what he asks and I open Messenger.
Lo veo online al cliente en el messenger.  I see the client online in Messenger.
Entonces aquí yo le quiero decir:
So I want to say to him here:
"Listo" (como diciendo que ya hice lo que me solicitó) "Listo" (As if to say that I've done what he asked)

¿Qué palabra o frase se puede aplicar en esta situación? What word or phrase do you use in this situation?

Done, ready?

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Answer:

 

Re: Cómo se dice Listo

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Yo iría por "done". Lo he escuchado muchas veces en esas situaciones. I would go for "done".  I've heard it many times in those situations.

That was very helpful.

Wordreference is a wonderful resource. The only problem I have with it is that some of the people there are "quite full of themselves".

As a beginner I've asked [ what I thought ] were some reasonable questions. Some people were very helpful, but some others acted as if I "should have known this". Being Scottish that did not go down very well with me and I sent a few PM's letting them know my mind.

This is a great forum and I've never seen any of the "snippy comments" and "cat-fighting" that can go on over there.

Dave

I am also curious as to why the word firmar is conjugated as firme instead of firma in the dialogue.

Usamos ¨firme¨ porque nos referimos a Usted ( imperativo),¨firma¨ sería para Tú.