::: spoiler NSFW explanation
In Spain, "coger" is "to take", and "pistola" is "pistol/gun".
In Argentina/Uruguay, "coger" is slang/vulgarism for "to have sexual intercourse [with]", while "pistola" is also slang for penis. Literally "fuck that cock" or "have sex with that penis"
:::
In Portuguese from Portugal, one of the words for "queue" is "bicha",
In Portuguese from Brasil, "bicha" is a slang word for homosexual and has nothing to do with queues.
So the common Portuguese expression to tell somebody one's going to stand on a queue - "vou para a bicha" (literally "I'm going to the queue") - has a whole different meaning for Brasilians.
There's a similar double entendre in Ar/Uy. "Cola" is both "queue" and "tail/butt". Now the common expression is "haceme la cola", which could be taken as "do (stand in) the queue" or "do my butt"
Being one iota better than Trump isn't enough when you actively tell your own base to fuck off and send the police to kick the shit out of the politically activated youth who make up your ground game.
When the Torries win next election, will it be evidence that the UK likes whoever is elected queen, or that Labor has killed any hope their base had of Labor enacting their will?
idomatically that's exactly how it's used - as one would say, "right?" "okay" "eh?" "feel me?" "dig?" "am I right?" "see?" "no?" at the end of a sentence in other epochs/cultures.
52 Comments
robocall@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 205d
This is how all Bri'ish speak
TheBat@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 205d
Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 205d
Yeah, puggsys don't either. Nor tuppers.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 205d
Nor do bagboffers and whopnicks.
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 205d
Or pumpernickels and breadsocks.
deHaga@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 205d
Grockles do tho
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 205d
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 205d
Pfffft. And all Americans say 'boddle of wadder'.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 205d
Are you the
Buh'oh ah wa'ah
Or
Bah'ol ah wa'er
Or
Bo'el a wo'ah
Type of English?
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 205d
I speak the Queen's English (I haven't downloaded the update yet), so I'm more of a 'bottle of water' sort of English. Must be because I'm posh.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 204d
Ah, RP, so
Bottol of wotta
not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 204d
to me they sound like "buddle of woderr"
robocall@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 205d
deHaga@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 205d
Crack head Geri
Noite_Etion@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 205d
They have war drums.
Them thieving bastards
djdarren@piefed.social · 1 pts · 205d
War Horse is all about war horse, like.
diemartin@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 205d
Españoles: "coge esa pistola"
Argentinos/Uruguayos: 😳😏🥵
robocall@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 205d
My college Spanish can't fail me... of course it just says "pick up that gun" and isn't some sort of double entendre that I don't understand
diemartin@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 205d
Your observations are correct.
::: spoiler NSFW explanation In Spain, "coger" is "to take", and "pistola" is "pistol/gun".
In Argentina/Uruguay, "coger" is slang/vulgarism for "to have sexual intercourse [with]", while "pistola" is also slang for penis. Literally "fuck that cock" or "have sex with that penis" :::
Klear@quokk.au · 13 pts · 205d
Ah, so it's kinda like "smoke a fag" in English / English (simplified)
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 205d
never knew that
new slang unlocked
diemartin@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 204d
You'll be
gladpleased to hear that "concha" ("shell/conch")...::: spoiler NSFW ...is also a very vulgar form of calling the female genitals (akin to "cunt")
A common insult in Ar/Uy when you are really pissed off is "la concha de tu madre" ("your mother's conch/cunt") :::
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 194d
hehe
mech@feddit.org · 3 pts · 205d
OK but in South America and Mexico, literally everything also means clock or duck.
Boakes@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 204d
They must be a very timely people!
mech@feddit.org · 2 pts · 204d
Dam autocorrect
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 205d
In Portuguese from Portugal, one of the words for "queue" is "bicha",
In Portuguese from Brasil, "bicha" is a slang word for homosexual and has nothing to do with queues.
So the common Portuguese expression to tell somebody one's going to stand on a queue - "vou para a bicha" (literally "I'm going to the queue") - has a whole different meaning for Brasilians.
diemartin@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 192d
There's a similar double entendre in Ar/Uy. "Cola" is both "queue" and "tail/butt". Now the common expression is "haceme la cola", which could be taken as "do (stand in) the queue" or "do my butt"
J92@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 205d
Americans latching on to this, and then not batting an eye when their president acts like theres no L's in 'billions'.
"Beee'ins." What a goblin.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 205d
That's one guy, and he isn't exactly popular. If Sir Keith were the only one over there who talked funny, we wouldn't clown on you guys so much.
Honytawk@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 205d
Popular enough to win a fucking presidential election though, twice. So how unpopular is he really?
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 204d
With significant evidence and whistleblower testimony that the elections were tampered with. How popular is that?
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 204d
Being one iota better than Trump isn't enough when you actively tell your own base to fuck off and send the police to kick the shit out of the politically activated youth who make up your ground game.
When the Torries win next election, will it be evidence that the UK likes whoever is elected queen, or that Labor has killed any hope their base had of Labor enacting their will?
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio · -5 pts · 205d
Rent free lmao
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 205d
How does a british say "bloody nose" without swearing?
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 205d
I think they call it a nosebleed. Or something ridiculous sounding, like an old red snooty boot.
deHaga@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 205d
We get nosebleeds, we give bloody noses
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 204d
You don't find a bloody nose just lying around, you must get them from somewhere.
bob_lemon@feddit.org · 4 pts · 205d
*bloody nosebleed
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 205d
also why is the "innit" there like what that's not how that word is used
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 204d
Innit tho
morphballganon@mtgzone.com · 3 pts · 204d
How else will readers know they're Bri'ish innit
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 204d
idomatically that's exactly how it's used - as one would say, "right?" "okay" "eh?" "feel me?" "dig?" "am I right?" "see?" "no?" at the end of a sentence in other epochs/cultures.
djdarren@piefed.social · 7 pts · 205d
you fukkin wot m8?!
swear on me mum...
Nomecks@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 204d
Shouldn't the title be bo'o'o'wo'ah?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 204d
u've got red on ye' guvna!
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 205d
"have"?
I think you mean
'ave, mate, innit?zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 205d
You 'avin a giggle mate?
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 4 pts · 204d
I like how they just made the British dog's nose massive.
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 205d
premium shitposting
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 205d
He has blood on his bloody nose.
hectorcruz123@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 204d
Cheerio! It’s all fun and games until someone actually drops the 'T' and we realize we're just talking in cursive. ☕️
nodiratime@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 204d
I thought the joke was that the politicians all use coke at first.
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social · 2 pts · 204d
[Sad Tycho Brahe noises]