Learning Spanish is fun!
Okay, so I have this Mexican Spanish Phrasebook and I was reading stuff to Besos because she likes it when I sound like an idiot.
Me, thinking I’m very funny, said, “I better learn how to say this…Es una amiga, nada mas!” Which means, basically, she’s just a friend. She snorted at me and said something about me assuming we’d date long enough for me to learn the phrase.
Then I found a phrase that’s used when you think your partner is cheating on you and roughly translated, it means, “Are you putting horns on my head?” So I said to her, “Me esta poniendo los cuernos?!”
Without skipping a beat, she laughed and rattled off something in Spanish. I said, “What’s that mean??”
She said, “It means Yes, I’ve been cheating on you for the last five months with your best friend.”
FTW! Spanish is fun!
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Just a random attorney writing about daily life with Little Filthy, my rotten dog.
October 27th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
When I was in college and would have to sit through interminable recitals, my roommate and I would ‘translate’ the foreign titles of songs. It was very amusing and not at all productive.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
LOL. Besos is a funny chick.
My ex-husband is Latino and we spoke Spanish at home. They have tons of awesome, quirky phrases like that.
October 28th, 2008 at 8:29 am
I hope Besos doesn’t think less of me after I showed her the pic of the Goatse guy. Heh. Is there a Spanish word for that?
October 29th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
KT – you just made me reminisce about college. I used to like watching people talk from a distance and making up their conversation.
PT-LawMom – She is pretty funny. heh. Ooo, can you help me with some new quirky phrases? I like to toss these out at her every so often.
LynchSeattle – If only you knew how much MORE she thinks of you. In fact, we just talked about it the other day because she saw something in that picture that I’ve never seen (because I’ve just never had that close a look) and when she told me…I think I screamed.
October 30th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Okay. Now I must know. Heh!
November 5th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Besos sound fun… she seems to think quickly on her feet – something I admire greatly.
Hot + Witty = Winner
(of course I’m assuming she’s hot from your previous descriptions. LoL No insult intended if she looks like a chupracabra, I don’t judge!!:) )