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| stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5627 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin | Message 9 of 14 04 August 2010 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
But the main female character is Spanish, not Mexican. So it would be more natural for her to use the Spanish term, and not the Mexican. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5386 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 10 of 14 05 August 2010 at 3:14am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Excellent point. I had not considered that aspect. I was thinking more in terms of the setting and the actual production, but you make a very good point. The two fellows certainly understood her though :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Guido Super Polyglot Senior Member ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6323 days ago 286 posts - 582 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Danish Studies: Russian, Indonesian, Romanian, Polish, Icelandic | Message 11 of 14 07 August 2010 at 12:28am | IP Logged | ||||||||
In Uruguay and Argentina "joder" means "to joke/to tease/to kid/to bother/...". ¡Vos me estás jodiendo! = You gotta be f***ing kidding me! / ¡Pará de joder! = Stop bothering! / Es un tipo muy jodido = He's a real nasty piece of work. Guido 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5122 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 12 of 14 08 August 2010 at 7:01am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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If you want to shout an expletive when you do something, use "verga" or "mierda"
Verga means (according to my understanding) shit Mierda also means shit (Fun Fact: Merde is French and Merda is Italian for the same thing) Also, chingar means f**k, and I've heard my Latin American friends use it to say "f**k you" or "f**k your mother" Edited by johntm93 on 08 August 2010 at 7:02am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Ajijic10 Diglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 6710 days ago 161 posts - 210 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 13 of 14 09 August 2010 at 4:06am | IP Logged | ||||||||
"Verga" means "penis" and "mierda" isn't used in Mexico (at least not where I live), nearly as often as we use the word "shit" in USA English. The most common curses that I hear are variations of "chingar" ("me chingaron los vendedores en el mercado!!"), variations of "madre" (like "puta madre!!"), and for a great all-purpose curse, you can't go wrong with the adjective "pinche". 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5122 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 14 of 14 09 August 2010 at 5:36am | IP Logged | ||||||||
something along the lines of "f*cking" from what I know, as in "pinche idiota" means "f*cking idiot." I only thought verga meant shit because I've heard it used the same way one would use shit. As in you drop your phone or something and yell "Verga!" Anyway, thanks for the clarity. Culer (I think it has the -er ending) means f*ck according to my Peruvian friend. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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