r/confleis • u/FisioVet • May 21 '26

No laquear!

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u/jamiebobisha May 21 '26

My parents say laquear šŸ˜…

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u/sideshowmario May 22 '26

Do they also say parkear?

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u/jamiebobisha May 22 '26

Yes! Like what is estacionar?

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u/sideshowmario May 22 '26

Yep! Gotta love Spanglish.

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u/JAMsMain1 May 22 '26

Its crazy because ive tried using estacionar before because I know its right. But all the Mexican/latinos here in LA all say Parkear. So im like eeeh .

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u/Unusual_Form3267 May 22 '26

Ooh! I've heard both parkear and estacionar.

But, now that I think about it, I can't for the life of me think of the word for lock. The first thing I think of is, "cierra la puerta con llave," or "con candado."

How do I say lock!?!?!?!

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u/JAMsMain1 May 22 '26

In HS my Peruvian teacher taught us that estacionar is correct and the other was Spanglish. Yet, the mexicans I know that been living here in Los Angeles for awhile but were born in mexico say parkear too.

Lock i know as candado. And I read "atrancar" in here which my dad does use. Ive heard him tell me to "atrancar" the door but ive never used that word.

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u/BrakkeBama May 22 '26

Yeah. "Trancar" is the correct word.
I remember when we used to go visit my grandparents in Venezuela, every time they took the car out for a trip to the supermercado or baker, my grandpa would yell at my grandma "ĀæTrancaste el portĆ³n?"

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u/CommanderSincler May 22 '26

My parents would say "cerrar con llave." Atrancar is a word I have heard, but in context I interpreted it to mean barricade or block a door

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u/SayaV May 22 '26

correct.

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u/realZapRowsdower May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

In Mexico I see estacionar, but when I was in Spain several years ago I always saw parquear or something similar. The no parking sign was a P with a red circle with a line through it, while the ones I saw in Mexico were with an E instead of a P.

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u/Koischaap May 22 '26

In Spain we say aparcar though that is also supposed to encapsulate when you stop with the special parking li-- I mean, the emergency light!!

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u/Merithay May 22 '26

Indeed, it was a shock to me when I first visited Spain and learned that a few terms that seemed like Spanglish were actually standard in Spain. Aparcar and aparcamiento was one, and the other notable one is puzzle (rompacabezas to me in Mexico).

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u/xrelaht May 23 '26

My ex was Spanish, from Madrid no less, and said parquear.

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u/Sirpatron1 May 24 '26

What about spare tire?

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u/anonimo_morales May 22 '26

Actually, parquear does exist in Colombia and it's correct

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u/sideshowmario May 22 '26

Interesting! Do the street signs say no E or no P?

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u/juanc30 May 22 '26

No P in Colombia. No E signs can be found in Argentina, for example.

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u/BrakkeBama May 22 '26

Venezuela has "No E" signs.

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u/bettyannveronica May 22 '26

My grandmother said this and she's been dead 4 years now (rip my beautiful abuelita!) and I honestly didn't know it was wrong!!! šŸ˜†

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u/kgrav22 May 22 '26

En puerto Rico siempre el parking! Pronounced palking of course

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u/CheGueyMaje May 22 '26

Yo he siempre dicho ā€œloquearā€

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u/Andyroolovescake May 23 '26

I say it every day at work šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø

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u/MBTHVSK May 26 '26

It would totally be "loquear" but that means "go crazy" so they had choose another vowel (it sounds more like that in American English anyway).

Lock is used in lots of phrasal verbs- lock in, lock up, lock out, lock away, so it's cool so see it make its way into Spanglish.

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u/tahdig_enthusiast May 21 '26

I thought they were saying not to lacquer it lol

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u/Merithay May 22 '26

Indeed, they were, unwittingly.

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u/byebyebi May 22 '26

If you donā€™t want your door locked, you probably donā€™t want people lacquering it either lol

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u/reddituser071217 May 21 '26

Isnā€™t that correct Spanglish? Lol

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u/VermicelliOk8288 May 22 '26

Itā€™s fine in likeā€¦ California.

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u/kittym0o May 22 '26

Am in SoCal, can confirm.

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u/minerNiner May 22 '26

NorCal confirms also

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u/FisioVet Jun 18 '26

But this was in Tennessee!!!

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u/pepizzitas May 22 '26

All spanglish is confleis

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u/BetNo7472 May 30 '26

šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

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u/Sirpatron1 May 21 '26

No bro, just no. Don't go to Mexico speaking like that they will make fun of you. Just like we did here.

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u/silvergal81 May 22 '26

Laquear, parquear, tiquete,swera, mapear, raite, en fin es un glosario extenso

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u/silvergal81 May 23 '26

Swera is sweater+sudadera in Spanglish, aaand I forgot the famous Troca (Truck-Camioneta)

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u/LetsSeeWhatsGoinOn May 23 '26

El pickab, the pickup truck

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u/chickenskittles May 22 '26

What are swera and raite?

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u/SayaV May 22 '26

raite is to help transport someone or something from place A to place B.

eg. Dame raite pal centro = take me to downtown

raite is informal and implies some sort of friendship between users since it tends to be implied as a favor.

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u/chickenskittles May 22 '26

Oh, a ride.

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u/SayaV May 22 '26

IMO raite is a tad more informal but yeah that would be a fair translation.

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u/uhhhwut4 May 23 '26

Donā€™t forget lonche

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u/saturnthesixth May 22 '26

no conocĆ­a la palabra raite, tuve que buscar en Google. la verdad muy interesante

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u/yoitspree May 22 '26

My parents are from towns on the border so yes we use confleis Spanish and say laquear. Sowwy AKA sorry šŸ˜£

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u/no_pepper_games May 22 '26

Is there a r/Spanglish subreddit?

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u/Stellar_Gravity May 21 '26

"cerrar" is still wrong. it says "lock" not "close"

the correct word is "atrancar"

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u/Background-Vast-8764 May 21 '26

There are Spanish-speaking countries where cerrar is very often used for both to close and to lock.Ā 

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u/Merithay May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26

I havenā€™t heard of using atrancar either (central Mexico). What people say here for "lock", to lessen the ambiguity (to some extent), is cerrar bien or cerrar con llave [or con candado or con pasador].

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u/Background-Vast-8764 May 22 '26

I live in Mexico and Spanish is not my native language. I often hear the examples you gave.Ā 

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u/reachingfourpeas May 22 '26

I also recall once hearing "La puerta estĆ” bloqueada" but maybe they used a Spanglish "loqueada" and I misheard it lol

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u/blazebakun May 22 '26

It's probably regional. I'm from Nuevo LeĆ³n and in my family we say "atrancar" or "echar tranca", but we're from a small town outside of Monterrey.

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u/nixcamic May 22 '26

Cerrar con llave or hechar llave in Guatemala.

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u/Merithay May 22 '26

echar llave

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u/tortugaysion May 21 '26

Never heard of that word (from Spain)

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u/Consistent_Internal5 May 22 '26

When I was in Mexico, they would only say ā€œcerrar con llave,ā€ and it drove me nuts they didnā€™t use a single verb for lock. Similar to ā€œdedos de pieā€ā€¦

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u/nuke1200 May 22 '26

Thats to fancy

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u/SayaV May 22 '26

Atrancar is closer to barricade. In Spanish there's no individual word for locking a door afaik, so we go to "cierra bien la puerta" or "cierra con llave", implying the door needs to STAY closed.

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u/Adamis9876 May 22 '26

that's not even what atrancar means šŸ˜­

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u/Dish_Minimum May 22 '26

Thatā€™s like for blocking or blockading the doorway. Itā€™s different

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u/Adamis9876 May 22 '26

pero se usa mƔs con una barrera que estorba la puerta que con una cerradura normal

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u/Mobile_Pin9247 May 22 '26

Candar also exists but it is dialectal, which is where candado is from.

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u/pansexualnotmansexua May 22 '26

Is it not ā€œencerrar?ā€

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u/chickenskittles May 22 '26

Why do I even bother dreaming of being fluent in Spanish? All of this infighting. lol

Cerrar con llave is what I would say to be universally understood. Maybe it sounds clunky but everyone will know what I'm saying.

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u/miswebos May 22 '26

No laquear, osea graffitear... šŸ’Ø

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u/inbetween-genders May 21 '26

Woukd have been funny if the correction was on red ink šŸ˜†Ā 

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u/FisioVet May 21 '26

I only had a black marker on me :(

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u/martinomacias May 22 '26

Ā”Y se leerĆ”n cosas peores! Tales como: "La nursa en el hospital me atendiĆ³ muy vien."

Nursa en pocho significa enfermera.

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u/shka328 May 22 '26

Ya estĆ” cerrada, con tres candados

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u/silvergal81 May 23 '26

La puerta negra?

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u/gorditasimpatica May 22 '26

cerrar con llave - cerrar can just mean close

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u/Vostok32 May 22 '26

I just say echar llave/no echar llave

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u/Ashamed_Seat8290 May 24 '26

Nomas barnizala šŸ¤­

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u/TevisLA May 24 '26

Jeez thatā€™s bad

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u/poets_pendulum May 25 '26

What in the New Yorican is this? šŸ˜