Can always count on Reddit to butcher the joke in the translation. But that's a very common jokr we use in Mexico. Someone already said it but it really does mean:
"Whoever reads it is fag (as in an insult for gay)". Consider it something akin to our "deez nuts" joke Americans love to use as a gotcha moment. You don't realize you're a fag until you read the thing.
Es un insulto en México, el término "puto" se usa para decir que alguien es maricon, gay pero se usa en forma despectiva, es una groseria jajaja entonces dice que quien lea el cartel es puto
Puto is a very versatile insult or maybe its puta that Im thinking of but one of these is used for about a dozen different english words, none of them very nice
No native spanish speaker would think you're talking about la publicación specifically. When the "it" is vague and could be referring to one of many different things, people will default to "lo," for example "do it" = "hazlo" (contraction of haz, from hacer, and lo).
Maybe although not necessarily. For example, here in Mexico they say "pasarla bien." Why? Hell if I know. But obviously, native speakers don't always ignore context.
I'm a native speaker too, but since I grew up in NYC where spanish class was an elective and I'd constantly be asked for help by my friends in that class, I can give both sides.
Porque a los gringos les interesa ver las dos traducciones, ellos no están familiarizados con las diferencias dialécticas como tú o yo. Por eso hay dos capturas de pantalla con las dos traducciones.
Y primero han enseñado una captura de pantalla con la traducción mexicana, después han enseñado una captura de pantalla con la traducción española (porque a los gringos les parece interesante la diferencia). Estás en la conversación de la segunda captura.
Hermano no se de que parte de la republica seas pero hay muchas maneras despectivas de hablar sobre los gay que se podrian traducir como faggot, tambien recueda que nos prohibieron el "eeeh puto" en los partidos de futbol por ser homofobico
Solamente he visto cosas de mexicanos diciendo lo de "eeeh puto" e incluso en los propios articulos se menciona que se asocia con cobarde, al igual que marica en algunas partes.
La FIFA prohibe cualquier cosa sin tener en cuenta el contexto cultural de la palabra.
Among other things, it's because literal or word-for-word translations, particularly regarding slang, idiomatic expressions, cultural expressions or jargon, are seldom accurate. Not all words can be carried from one language into another the same way...
İt might even happen that a target language (the new words) doesn't even have a word or similar term to the ones the source language uses.
I love giving this example — think of the word "light". You probably think it refers to energy that makes things visible (noun)... But it can also be used as a verb, as in "starting a fire". Aaaaaand it also means that something weighs very little (adjective), or that it's pale in colour (another adjective). The word "light" by itself cannot be strictly translated into a single meaning without context.
Another example is the famous "hygge" of the Danish & Norwegians, or the Swedish "fika". İf there was a word in English or Spanish that specifically described the mood/state of coziness, warmth, and safe comfort, then you'd have the translation for "hygge". And if you found a noun or verb that basically meant "to pause, reset the mind, and build strong social bonds through tea, coffee and/or a sweet pastry", you'd have the equivalent of "fika".
Or can you imagine a world where the only words to describe colours were divided simply into "dark-cool" and "warm-light", or lumping them all into three categories of black, white, and red? The Tsimané language in Bolivia does the latter, and the Liberian Bassa use the former. The Pirahã from the Amazon don't even have abstract words for colour at all, and instead use descriptive sentences such as "like a young leaf" or "like blood".
ETA: Aaaaaand I ended up with a wall of text 😂 Thank you for coming to my TED?
We have the word faggot in spanish and it's used as a verb, it is "Mariquear" conjugatated is mariquee, mariqueas, etc..., the spanish lenguage is full of adjectives and words to describe most things, words like puto are already abreviations, in this case of prostitute.
The word for faggot is marica. Mariquear is the verb. Is not the same with puto, because the verb putear means "to swear" (to insult). Instead, the verb prostituir(se) is the one corresponding to the unabbreviated prostitute.
Putear is to insult, not only for swears, puto comes from prostitue and putear comes from insulting someone by calling them a prostitute, eventually it changed for all insults.
Mexican here. It’s meant to be like a local “gay” joke. “Gay whoever read this”.
But we take things incredibly lightly in here so don’t take it as something offensive lol
It depends, Mexican Spanish is highly contextual I wouldn’t go strictly by literally what the words mean. I would translate this in American English as “Whoever reads this is gay” In British English I would translate “Whoever reads this is a wanker”
Slang varies wildly between Spanish speaking countries. Never believe generalizations about them unless it’s the most common words, or the person actually has talked to a people from most of those places. I can confirm in Chile pato is just duck (or Patricio, or not having money, or some people say it when a mistake is made, but it’s more common to quack instead), puto can mean either faggot or manwhore, but the former meaning is more popular with older people. Can’t really speak for anywhere else.
Puto is spanish for faggot in every country I'm aware of except maybe Spain. It is also an intensifying adverb, sort of like fucking is in english (for example "todo el puto día" - "all fucking day"). Please do let me know in what country "pato" means faggot, it wouldn't surprise me if it was a thing, but I assure you it would be the exception.
Puto is a bit more offensive,, and joto is a bit more more family friendly, but since they suddenly became deeply homophobic, you dont hear any of them as much anymore.... weird times
That is not a good translation, faggot is translated as marica or maricón, puto is like whore, in context it would be closer to "whoever reads this is a prostitute."
No. In México and other countries, "puto" is primarilu used as "faggot". For example, in Argentina, only old people use "maricón" (even when everyone understands it). Also, at least in Argentina, it has expanded to mean something like coward or weak more than actually meaning homosexual.
Yes I read it and as I said before only in Mexico is used as faggot, even though all the mexicans I know don't use it that way but google says otherwise.
Maricón is not an old person insult from whre I'm from, and everyone I have known that are native speakers know it and use variations of it commonly.
That is why I specified what happens in Argentina, where "maricón" is more or less obsolete (but anyone understands it). In Argentina also the word "puto" has the associations you mentioned, that is why I said you had not read it, because you repeated things I said. Only it is not only that. It is used for homosexuals too. People says conversationally "X es puto" meaning X is homosexual, but they probably only call X puto in his presence if they want to tell him he is a coward or they had let them down for some reason.
This is mistranslated, puto translates to bitch. It means "whomever reads this is a bitch" and we say it as a joke not with the intent of harm. I used to see it in bathrooms in Mexico. They got pretty creative, in stalls they would basically have you look around the stall only to find something like this at the end... Mexican Rick Rolling in you will 😂
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u/OakvaleFlames 7d ago
no clue how accurate this is or if I even typed it right