#1 2012-07-05 19:05:20
And I expect to be massively distracted for the next few months but I will try to post weird Spanish shit as often as it occurs to me, but the wine and the food and the men here are all quite lovely so don't worry if you don't see me for several days at a time.
Run it through Google Translate, pendejo!
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#2 2012-07-05 22:36:56
Don't go native on us!
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#3 2012-07-06 01:17:29
¿At the risk of sounding like a complete jerk - right, that never stopped me before - don't Barthelonans speak the mother tongue with a lisp?
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#4 2012-07-06 07:01:54
choad wrote:
¿At the risk of sounding like a complete jerk - right, that never stopped me before - don't Barthelonans speak the mother tongue with a lisp?
Thpanish is widely thpoken in Catalonia, alongthide Catalan. From what little I've seen so far (I went out to dinner last night with the new roomie and, after finally crashing, have just awakened from a ten-hour sleep) they're both used equally. But that lisp, yeah... I'm anticipating finally getting a grip on on Spanish (my Spanish is terrible) but with two months immersion, I also want to be careful about the accents I pick up. I'm not sure I could handle all the ribbing I'd get back in California if I returned home lithping everthing.
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#5 2012-07-06 09:38:03
Lithping and a propensity to use the formal Usted and Vosotros will point you out like a beacon to any Spanish speaker born west of the Greenwich meridian. It's like when Madonna developed a distinct Downtown Abby accent the day after she bought a castle. People will just snicker behind their palms.
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#7 2012-07-07 00:17:15
Chuck Schick wrote:
http://youtu.be/hnytcMClO38
That was a truly great little movie.
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#8 2012-07-07 01:00:35
No lisping, lest you be regarded as un mariposa.
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#9 2012-07-07 01:40:32
sigmoid freud wrote:
No lisping, lest you be regarded as un mariposa.
I think the word you're looking for is maricón, and Taint is proud of the fact that he's a big butch one!
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#10 2012-07-07 01:58:07
fnord wrote:
I think the word you're looking for is maricón
O un pato. Depende del país. Walks like a duck, talks like a duth. Sorry, bedtime for Bonzo.
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#11 2012-07-07 07:10:52
GooberMcNutly wrote:
Lithping and a propensity to use the formal Usted and Vosotros will point you out like a beacon to any Spanish speaker born west of the Greenwich meridian. It's like when Madonna developed a distinct Downtown Abby accent the day after she bought a castle. People will just snicker behind their palms.
The vosotros and vos is a give-away, and the required conjugation is yet another thing to get wrong. In parts of Latin America, tú is rarely used and Usted prevails.
I am looking foward to tour guidance, Taint, and wine recommendations as well.
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#12 2012-07-07 16:02:23
Mucho tapas(s), Taint, but be careful of those dirty Spanish fuckers. Of all the European peoples, Spaniards are the most morally, ethically and intellectually debased. Their history of intolerance, torture and slaughter is non-pareil. In the Netherlands, in Cuba, in Mexico and Peru (in fact, all over South America), the Spaniard left a legacy of bloodshed and torture that would make Hitler, Genghis Khan and Leopold of Belgium blush for insufficiency. The notion of Spanish intelligence is also in doubt, abandoned alongside humour, morality and humanity when they murdered anyone with half-a-brain during their long drive to rid the land of Moors, Moriscoes and Jews - the very people to whom western culture owes an enormous debt for the reclamation of ancient Greek and Roman learning. The stupid brutish fuckers once owned half the world...now? A few islands and their own shitty little country. Humourless arrogance, superstition, butchery and bullfights are the history of Spain - and they're still in vogue. Watch your back, Taint - those may look like nice people, and the ones you're hanging with may be lisping pillow-biters who make good food, but they're still Spaniards, the lowest of the low. 
HURRAH FOR THE BULL!
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#13 2012-07-07 17:51:48
Wilber isn't entirely wrong. I'd revisit Lisbon long before I go back to Spain, even if - as fnord will remind you - they're all eggplants. Seriously, you've got to see Lisbon.
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