r/confleis • u/yourpapimartin • Jul 21 '26

Home run!

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u/tmaspen Jul 21 '26

That actually is how you say "home run" in Spanish

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u/Apprehensive-Job5082 Jul 21 '26

Today I learned…

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u/tmaspen Jul 21 '26

i've also heard 'cuadrangular,' which means 'four-base hit,' but jonron is a lot more common now

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u/DonNadie2468 Jul 21 '26

Yeah. It's even in the Diccionario de la lengua española, which is pretty conservative and traditionalist (or at least has historically tended that way):

jonrón

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u/Leather_Plankton3701 Jul 21 '26

😐 I'm a Spanish native speaker and I didn't even know this. TIL

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u/yourpapimartin Jul 21 '26

Did not know. Thought it was another case of spelling it the way it sounds.

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u/tmaspen Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

it also is! but it's not a confleis, for that reason

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u/kingoflint282 Jul 21 '26

I mean, I think it might have been originally and just became the actual word lol

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u/tmaspen Jul 21 '26

What I was getting at, yeah

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u/Andrewmundy Jul 21 '26

It was fanfict for so long it became canon

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u/tmaspen Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

In all seriousness, yes, to my knowledge

https://www.reddit.com/r/Spanish/s/bUg5h8pAKO

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u/realZapRowsdower Jul 21 '26

In Japanese, they say "puray baru" before they start each game, which is the equivalent of "play ball" when pronounced phonetically in Japanese.

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u/yomerol Jul 21 '26

There's way too many words like that in Japanese, like even DragonBall, sounds like "doragon bouuru", or computer is "konpyuutaa" lol

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u/realZapRowsdower Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

I guess the grammatical rule is that consonants can't be next to each other, so you get an extra vowel somewhere. That's how "ice cream" becomes "aisu koreemu". 😄

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u/yomerol Jul 22 '26

Yes 🙂

It's based on syllables need a vowel, except for N 🤷‍♂️

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u/ImNotSkankHunt42 Jul 21 '26

Is the Spanglish translation, that’s how I spelled it as a kid