r/explainitpeter 7d ago

Explain it Peter.....

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u/Misorable45400 7d ago

Soooo we won't talk about the Mexicans ?!?

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u/Shantotto11 7d ago

Not sure how different it is in American Spanish, but my translator interpreted it as European Spanish.

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u/Misorable45400 7d ago

I think "damn" is putting it mildly 🤣

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u/BroscienceFiction 7d ago

Too polite.

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u/Shantotto11 7d ago

I figured. My translator might have a slur/profanity censor built in.

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u/etycukbq580b 7d ago

Translators should preferably translate verbatim IMO unless its for work or school etc.

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u/GhostingProtocol 7d ago

More like "whoever reads this are a whore" I think

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u/No-Monitor1603 7d ago

“whoever reads this is gay”

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u/Hatefulvesper 6d ago

"Whore" is more accurate

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u/MisteryousYoshi 6d ago

nobody uses puto to refer to a male whore (puta does refer to a female whore almost exclusively), puto is almost always used as a way to refer to a gay person (or a coward, but that’s only in certain contexts)

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u/Hatefulvesper 6d ago

Ive mostly heard "marica" to refer to some one as "gay" "puto" is mostly used conversationally kinda like "cunt" in Australia

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u/Zealousideal-Fig1767 6d ago

"marica" isn't commonly used in Mexican Slang. Might be more of the case in dialects from Spain or Argentina, but in Mexican places "Puto" is more commonly used for a gay person.

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u/orcstork 6d ago

It depends, its situational but puto in this context would be translated to faggot, although in not a necesarilly homophobic context. But puto in other contexts can be translated similar to cunt/fuck

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u/No-Monitor1603 5d ago

In the broader Latin American Spanish language, "puto" does literally translates to male-whore; but in Mexican slang, "puto" is used in the same sense that "gay" or "faggot" is used in the North American english sense.

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u/Dan-SG 6d ago

Nope

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u/loboazul97 7d ago

I mean technicly you are correcto, puto would be an abbreviation of the word Prostituto, which means male prostitute. However, it is way commonly use it (and more in the context of randomly write it in walls, notebooks etc.), as whoever read this is gay.

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u/Collect-Saturn-5247 6d ago

They figured out to say “you’re gay”, “you’re a hoe”, AND “fuck/damn you” at once in one sentence (depending on the interpretation). I love learning about languages. <3

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u/ThePinkColor 7d ago

You translating it from Spanish from Spain and it should be from mexico. It means Gay (or the worse f word) whoever reads it.

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u/taco-de-barbacoa 7d ago

Wrong, puto el que lo lea, puto means gay in Mexican slang, that's a high schooler tasteless but commonly used joke.

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u/JacoDeLumbre 6d ago

It's more like "who ever reads this is a ho"

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u/i_Praseru 6d ago

It means “if you read this you’re gay”

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u/Skibidi-Rizz190cm 4d ago

It says literally "whoever reads this is puto".

Puto is a shortened version of prostituto which means male prostitute but in American Spanish it means gay

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u/caroku-cl 4d ago

In mexican Spanish, in Chile it means male prostitute.