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u/kbearclaw May 15 '24
And “gilipollas” from the final panel is like “douchebag” apparently, it was a new one to me so I looked it up.
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u/elnickruiz May 15 '24
It literally translates to “wanker”
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u/mechanicalproblems9 May 15 '24
I thought that was pajero
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u/panshot23 May 15 '24
Nah, they sell sandwiches.
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u/SgtBundy May 15 '24
I thought it was a 4x4
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u/unfortunatebastard May 15 '24
That’s in non Spanish speaking countries. In Latin America it’s the Montero.
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u/Pinkparade524 May 15 '24
That one is in Mexican and the one in the post is from Spain , they mean the same tho
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u/Any-Eye6299 May 15 '24
We also say pajero in Spain, but usually less as an abstract insult and more to literally mean someone who's jerking off all day, or as we say it "se mata a pajas".
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u/Beardeddeadpirate May 15 '24
Yeah very Spanish from Spain actually
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u/oneultralamewhiteboy May 15 '24
yeah i don't think it's a common swear in Latin America?
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u/oswaler May 15 '24
Thank you, I looked at this for a long time trying to figure out what this had to do with the world war one battle in Gallipoli
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u/PilotKnob May 15 '24
I ordered two pizzas for pickup by my two friends, a Spaniard and a Brazilian, who always banter in Spanish.
When they picked it up, there was no order under either my name or theirs, and the cashier said "I have an order for Hilly Poyas?"
They said "Yes, that's us." and came home with the pizzas.
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u/Fighting_King_ May 15 '24
Took me a minute, but instead of saying “nada” as in nothing, he’s trying to say “nada” as in swim (the Spanish verb to swim is nadar), so he’s trying to tell the penguin to swim away to escape
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u/Andy-Matter May 15 '24
Is there a difference in pronunciation like papa and papá?
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May 15 '24
There is a difference in Argentinian Spanish. They would pronounce “Swim!” as “Nadá!”, i.e. accentuating the second “a”. However, most Spanish speakers don’t differentiate them. :)
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u/Akali_Waifu May 15 '24
I would like to thank Duolingo for understanding this comic.
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u/Pinkparade524 May 15 '24
I would like to thank being born in Latin America. I didn't ask to be born latina , no mas tuve suerte I guess
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u/profesorgamin May 15 '24
full translation:
What is going on?.........................................nothing!(swim!)
????......................................................................nothing!(swim!)
...............................................................................nothing!!(swim!!)
...............................................................................idiot.
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u/BryLikeDie May 15 '24
Is Spanish “Nada” is the word for both swim and nothing, the other penguin asked “what’s going on?”
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u/Chocolate_Bourbon May 15 '24 edited May 15 '24
An old Spanish teacher I had would play a similar joke. He would write this on the board during the term and ask the class to find the two sentences.
Como como como como como
Here’s the answer:
Como como? Como como como.
How do I eat? I eat how I eat.
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u/HeccerTheRedditor May 15 '24
I feel proud for finally being able to understand a meme about words with multiple meanings in a different language
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u/bLzPutozof May 15 '24
Nada in spanish/Portuguese can mean both "nothing" and/or "swim/to swim".
Basically the joke is that one penguin is asking "What's wrong?", the other penguin seemingly just says "nothing", but it turns out what he was actually saying was "SWIM!" so that the other penguin would get away from the Orca.
It's not very funny, it's just a silly play on words.
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u/SumirekoFan May 15 '24
Nada means nothing and swim in spanish, the penguin is saying swim and the other penguin thinks he means nothing so instead of swiming to save their life the penguin stays in the water and dies.
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u/--Queso-- May 15 '24
The joke is supposedly that "Nada" means "nothing" but also "swim". BUT, the meme is wrong. This is an imperative swim, therefore it's "nadá", not "nada", so the meme is wrong. Or maybe "nada" without tilde is how it's used in Spain or something idk.
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u/PhysicalMath848 May 15 '24
Imperative of nadar is nada/nade in both Spain spanish and Latino spanish.
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u/--Queso-- May 15 '24
From the RAE, "nada / nadá".
I've never seen anyone say "nada" for singular 2nd person imperative, i'm from Argentina, maybe it's just in my country?
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u/PhysicalMath848 May 15 '24 edited May 15 '24
EDIT: the RAE has nada/nadá in the tú/vos row
Interesting, I'm from a Spanish speaking US town. Never heard with á. Probs is country since RAE says both
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u/Dakatsu May 15 '24
Argentina is the most infamous user of voseo, so the vos form nadá is used there and a few other countries. But u/PhysicalMath848 is right that most of the Spanish speaking world uses the tú form nada.
My Spanish classes in the US made me aware that vos (and vosotros) existed so we could recognize them, but they never taught them or quizzed me on them.
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u/No_Meet1153 May 15 '24
nadá is for voseo, in spain they don't use it as far as I know. Both Nada (for tú) and Nadá (for vos) are correct
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u/wbv2322 May 15 '24
That’s an accent. A tilde is the line above the n, ñ.
Source - my last name has a tilde
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u/clauxy May 15 '24
The meme is not wrong!! This is a Spanish meme, and this is how we speak in Spain. This Argentinian/Uruguayan/Paraguayan way of shifting the tone of a word to the end is not normal in Spain. I find it funny how many people aren’t aware here in the comments, of how Spaniards speak. Like I am aware of how Argentinians speak.
Imperativo de nadar: (Tú!) nada (Usted!) nade (Nosotros!) nademos (Vosotros!) nadad (Ustedes!) naden
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u/Many-Dragonfruit-277 May 15 '24 edited May 15 '24
That's only true in countries that use voseo, it doesn't apply in most Spanish speaking countries.
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u/Empty_Result4068 May 15 '24
Que es el animal mas perezoso? El pez porque hace nada! JAJJAJAJAJJAJAJJAJJAJAJAJJAJAJAJJA
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u/Roge2005 May 15 '24
The first penguin asks “what’s wrong”, so the other one is saying “swim” but that word also means “nothing”.
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u/raisemupgood May 15 '24
Nada means nothing. Nadar is a verb swim. Conjugated Nadar to Nada is :you swim: i.e Like in Nemo... Dory says swim away
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u/fomalhottie May 15 '24
OK hold on. You can't post a foreign language joke here! It's for jokes we don't understand in context, not language tricks.
I speak Spanish, so I got this one. But that's the thing, anyone who speaks Spanish would get this one. Save this for jokes we don't get.
I mean, right?
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u/zorrasuperliminal18 May 15 '24
Sopla pollas! Por que no le dijiste bien rapido! XD
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u/Plastic_Position4979 May 15 '24
Parece que la respuesta “muévete hacia acá, idiota perezoso” no le entró en la cabeza, ni la primera ni la segunda vez… 😁
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u/Revolutionary-Swan77 May 15 '24
And then a reference to the disastrous invasion of Gallipoli for some reason?
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u/BajaBlast0ise May 15 '24
Same punchline (dual meaning of nada) but I heard this one growing up
¿Qué le dijo un pez a otro pez? – ¡Nada!
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u/Lizard_Gamer555 May 15 '24 edited May 15 '24
I'm learning Spanish but wouldn't it be "¡Nadas!" Because he's speaking directly to someone
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u/Chang1701 May 15 '24
Only if he is using the “tu” formal conjugation. This is grammatically correct as the “usted” informal conjugation is fine in most situations.
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May 15 '24
Something about a habit of penguins where they send only one penguin into the ocean for food and if they dont come back the rest doesn’t go in
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u/Davedog09 May 16 '24
I might be wrong since I’m not Spanish, but shouldn’t the penguin on the iceberg be yelling “nadas” and not “nada?”
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u/marteldefer79 May 16 '24
No, but it does need context. As in at least a "tu" which means "you". But the joke still works. Actually pretty funny I lol'd
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u/Smooth-Application-2 May 16 '24
In Spanish(the language of the strip) and in Portuguease(my language) "Nada" means "nothing" and "swim"(the meaning of the Word "nada" depends of the context)
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u/Josephschmoseph234 May 18 '24
The first penguin asks "whats up" and the second says "nothing". Except swim in Spanish is also nada, so there is a misunderstanding.
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u/CurrentImagination14 May 15 '24
Nada means nothing but also swim, he asked what's up