
Spanish slang clarifications
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bebestylee said:
03-20-2009 08:15 PM

Originally Posted by
dmoney101
yea i know, but there's only like 3 puerto ricans and one dominican in the whole city. they rest are either mexican or central american, so we all say chota
dang, i was gonna look into it until you said that. there's no way im gonna pay to have that installed
Lol I hear ya man!
It's worth it though...you can do it yourself....it's not that hard! it's just not that easy! lol
Dime cosas dulces para que cuando te las tengas que tragar, no te sepan tan amargas!!!
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dmoney101 said:
03-20-2009 08:25 PM

Originally Posted by
bebestylee
Lol I hear ya man!
It's worth it though...you can do it yourself....it's not that hard! it's just not that easy! lol
i would if you could just put it on top of all the stuff in your trunk. i'm not tryin to strip it down jaja
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bebestylee said:
03-20-2009 08:34 PM

Originally Posted by
dmoney101
i would if you could just put it on top of all the stuff in your trunk. i'm not tryin to strip it down jaja
dude it's just a few panels....it's not a big deal....it reality it should only take you about 25 mins to do the trunk. Some people Dynamat the whole car...you don't hear a single vibration...at allll
Dime cosas dulces para que cuando te las tengas que tragar, no te sepan tan amargas!!!
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dmoney101 said:
03-20-2009 09:14 PM

Originally Posted by
bebestylee
dude it's just a few panels....it's not a big deal....it reality it should only take you about 25 mins to do the trunk. Some people Dynamat the whole car...you don't hear a single vibration...at allll
i'll look into it. i've been drivin without puttin my system where i like it (at 55, it's been turned to about 40) and it sounds weird. it's so damn quiet, i hate not having my seat massaging my back jaja
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damarys said:
03-20-2009 09:27 PM
dmoney.... is this your car?????

So... the vibrations are on purpose! Ah... I understand now.

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Zahra2008 said:
03-20-2009 10:07 PM
guys... I dont want to be mean... but we have a chit chat thread... this is only for slang clarifications...
please!!
the first love is gone ... am waiting for the last one!!
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damarys said:
03-20-2009 10:39 PM
Hi Zahra! Please don't call la jarra on us!
Back to slang.....
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BAGurl said:
03-21-2009 07:22 AM
haha, zahra is right...
following on you guys on the slang, in argentina we call the cops:
la gorra
la yuta
la poli
la cana
los azules (only in some parts of the country)
rati (A single cop is "un rati", only used by criminals and it's really insulting)
and other words for money
dinero
plata
guita (this one is common slang)
billete
mango (equivalent for "buck")
sope (reverse of "peso", the national currency)
@dmoney: que garron flaco!!!! sorry to hear that you had trouble
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dmoney101 said:
03-21-2009 11:25 AM
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eg1218 said:
03-22-2009 07:00 AM
Back home we call the cops "Los Camarones" and "La Jara" . And a "chota" or "chotión" is a snitch. We also call pennies "perras" or "perritas". Apparently in Ponce (according to my ex) quarters are called "fichas", dimes & nickles are called "bellón de diez" and "bellón de cinco". In the northwest where I'm from, however, we call quarters "pesetas" or other slangs like "cuara" and "pejeta". And dimes & nickles are called "dime" and "bellón" respectively.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.
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xiurell said:
03-22-2009 07:35 AM

Originally Posted by
eg1218
Back home we call the cops "Los Camarones" and "La Jara" . And a "chota" or "chotión" is a snitch. We also call pennies "perras" or "perritas". Apparently in Ponce (according to my ex) quarters are called "fichas", dimes & nickles are called "bellón de diez" and "bellón de cinco". In the northwest where I'm from, however, we call quarters "pesetas" or other slangs like "cuara" and "pejeta". And dimes & nickles are called "dime" and "bellón" respectively.
Hey, pesetas were the previous currency we used here in Spain before the adoption of the actual currency, the euro. I miss my dear pesetas
Back to the slang here we say for money
- pasta, guita, tela
and for the police
- la poli, la pasma, los maderos, los picoletos
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damarys said:
03-22-2009 08:53 AM
Hmmm... "los maderos"... is that because police carry a club?
I really can't figure out where "la jara" came from. I'm interested in the stories of how the terms came to be.
Money seems to be easier to understand. Terms like "tela, "lana", "mango" and "pasta". Those make sense.
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bebestylee said:
03-22-2009 01:54 PM

Originally Posted by
damarys
I really can't figure out where "la jara" came from. I'm interested in the stories of how the terms came to be. .
Yea I don't know where that came from either....but it's used in one of my fav song! 
"Que se joda la jara, Moldea las pistolas, los peines con las balas....y vamo alla, que yo tengo una dama, un pal de blones y bellaquera que no baja...que no baja!"
-Maicol y Manuel
Dime cosas dulces para que cuando te las tengas que tragar, no te sepan tan amargas!!!
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dmoney101 said:
03-22-2009 05:12 PM

Originally Posted by
bebestylee
Yea I don't know where that came from either....but it's used in one of my fav song!
"Que se joda la jara, Moldea las pistolas, los peines con las balas....y vamo alla, que yo tengo una dama, un pal de blones y bellaquera que no baja...que no baja!"
-Maicol y Manuel
what's pal mean? as a matter of fact, i don't understand most of that sentence. damn pr slang jaja
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bebestylee said:
03-22-2009 05:49 PM

Originally Posted by
dmoney101
what's pal mean? as a matter of fact, i don't understand most of that sentence. damn pr slang jaja
lol....yeah I hear ya! lol
well the jsst of that part is:
"Que se joda la jara=>F*ck the police, Moldea las Pistolas, Los Peines con las balas=>Grip the guns and put the bullets in the clips, Y vamo alla, Que yo tengo una dama=>and Let's go over there, because I have this chick, un pal de blones y bellaquera que no baja, que no baja=>a couple blunts and this horniness that won't go away...won't go away!
Dime cosas dulces para que cuando te las tengas que tragar, no te sepan tan amargas!!!
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dmoney101 said:
03-22-2009 07:09 PM

Originally Posted by
bebestylee
lol....yeah I hear ya! lol
well the jsst of that part is:
"Que se joda la jara=>F*ck the police, Moldea las Pistolas, Los Peines con las balas=>Grip the guns and put the bullets in the clips, Y vamo alla, Que yo tengo una dama=>and Let's go over there, because I have this chick, un pal de blones y bellaquera que no baja, que no baja=>a couple blunts and this horniness that won't go away...won't go away!
so pal is just a few? so it's kinda like un chin for me then, aight. i've started to get used to mexican spanish lately and all this slang is confusing jaja
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bebestylee said:
03-22-2009 07:19 PM

Originally Posted by
dmoney101
so pal is just a few? so it's kinda like un chin for me then, aight. i've started to get used to mexican spanish lately and all this slang is confusing jaja
un Pal...would actually be like a couple...or a few
Un chin would be a little bit...
Dime cosas dulces para que cuando te las tengas que tragar, no te sepan tan amargas!!!
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Zahra2008 said:
03-23-2009 07:31 PM

Originally Posted by
Zahra2008
well, you already wrote some that I know... other that I remember now are: "devaluados", "feria", "luz"...
I remember more slang for money: "morralla", "marmaja"
and for police/cops, well I live near to the fronter so we call to the border police "la migra"
the first love is gone ... am waiting for the last one!!
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Zahra2008 said:
03-23-2009 07:33 PM

Originally Posted by
bebestylee
un Pal...would actually be like a couple...or a few
Un chin would be a little bit...
I am not sure about pal... but for me "un chin..." means a lot of, plenty of!!
the first love is gone ... am waiting for the last one!!
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bebestylee said:
03-23-2009 07:53 PM

Originally Posted by
Zahra2008
I am not sure about pal... but for me "un chin..." means a lot of, plenty of!!

Just another example of how slang changes between countries! lol
Dime cosas dulces para que cuando te las tengas que tragar, no te sepan tan amargas!!!