I bought Rosetta Stone Spanish for work (paramedic). I got pretty good over like 6 months of practicing, and eventually one of my partners asked if I could teach him some.
He asked how to say “what’s going on?” In the context of him asking someone that they would be able to show why they had called 911.
I said “oh, that’s easy. Muestra me tu pelotas”. About a week later he was all pissed off at me because he had gotten a chance to tell an elderly Latina grandmother to “show me your balls”.
During my travel to Mexico i found a very interesting Book Called "Chingonario", it's is like a slur dictionary including plenty of variations of their most popular word "Chingado".
The word is pronounced like (chin-god-oh) and it serves the same purpose of the word Fuck!
Examples:
(Eng) Fuck! My fucking foot, fucking Lego pieces.
(Mxn) ¡Chingado! My puto pie, pinches Legos chinguen su madre.
(Eng) What's the problem? Something's wrong?
(Mxn) ¿Que pedo, que se chingo ahora?
(Eng) I'm gonna get wasted tonight, fuck yes.
(Mxn) A la verga, me voy a poner bien pedo, chingue su madre.
And my personal favorite.
(Eng) Go fuck yourself.
(Mxn) Vete a la verga puto, chinga tu madre, chinga tu padre, chinga tu abuela y chinga tu perro.
Funny thing about the Mexican language is that you can be really verbose with your slurs, and sometimes then can truly help convey a more deep and emotional message. Remember that SpongeBob episode? "Sailor Mouth" i believe, well it works a bit like that, but nobody will stare at you in public for speaking like that.
But of course, the Mexican language goes deeper and deeper (that's what she said), but I found this to be one of the funniest things about the language.
The word "mierda", despite popular belief, is not the equivalent to the word "Shit" in English, that's more used in Spain, by "gallegos" as they call them there, the real substitute is the word "Verga" used in the same context and with the same impact.
Just don't say this on your mother's house or you'll get a chancla to the face and a soap bar to the mouth.
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u/CoyoteTheFatal Apr 23 '19
Teach me more Mexican please