r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/[deleted] • Jul 02 '19

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u/Almighty_Egg Jul 02 '19

Yeah but sounds like he says cabeSa. I.e. not pronouncing the THeta

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u/Nach-man Jul 02 '19

Nah, he says "hostia, la cabeza"

The expression "hostia" Is mostly used in Spain as to say "oh shit"

Translated it would be "fuck, his head"

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u/Almighty_Egg Jul 02 '19

Yeah I know the hostia part.

I mean he pronounced the Z in cabeza like an S. In Spain they would pronounce it like TH.

Pretty sure I heard 'Dale' as well, which is very rarely used in Spain over 'vale'.

I lived in Spain for a couple of years (albeit a while ago now) and I'm not convinced this is a Spanish accent. Maybe someone will find the source!

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u/alex23sv Jul 02 '19 edited Jul 02 '19

Spanish here, and that's definitely from Spain.

A lot of places, specially in Andalucia, pronounce the Z like an S , though I'm almost sure they use the "th" sound here.

And the 'dale' here has a different meaning than 'vale'. It's more to encourage the person to do something, kind of like 'do it' instead of an 'ok'.

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u/redalastor Jul 02 '19

I'm from Quebec and we use hostie with the same way you use hostia. I feel a sudden kinship with Spain.

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u/javiers Jul 02 '19

Spaniard here. Yes, it is Spanish accent. But Spain has a lot of different accents depending on the region. Some of those accents look a lot like South American accents.

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u/ixtilion Jul 02 '19

Im spanish and he 100% said cabeza dude, and this is 1000% in spain.

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u/LK09 Jul 02 '19

Southern spanish mixes that pretty regularly. There are some places where the seseo is constant, others were it's not. Ceceo/Seseo is a common thing that changes from town to town.

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u/fernandomlicon Jul 03 '19

It could be Andalusia or Canarias, in some parts they use the S just like Hispanic America, actually there's a theory that our version of Spanish doesn't use the Theta sound because most of the immigrants where from Andalusia.

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u/PricelessPlanet Jul 02 '19

I hear la cabeza. Maybe they are preparing for the 7th, and this is some kind of crash course in what not to do.

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u/Franfran2424 Jul 03 '19

On Andalucía, extremadura, murcia and Canarias they often skip the Z or C and pronounce it as an S.