Grandpa makes a few extra bucks working with a septic tank company, digging ditches and installing tanks and doing estimates.
Some of the fellows on his crew are Hispanics.
My son went with Grandpa to work to earn some money and brush up on his Spanish. He learned, among other things, that he accidentally referred to his Grandpa as Grandma (abuela instead of abuelo).
I remember very little of my high school and college Spanish, and of course, they don’t teach you the curse words. So when one of the workers uttered “Punta” and my son asked him what that meant, the man hemmed and hawed and wouldn’t answer.
Ivylad told him it was a crude word for a vagina. (Use your imagination)
Now, in the course of discussing this with my son, he asked if there was a town if Florida called this. Ivylad confirmed it, and Ivyboy said that Gorda means “fat.”
So does this town’s name mean what I think it means? And do Spanish-speaking citizens in Florida get a secret giggle out of what we named one of our towns? :eek:
No, I made the mistake when I was reading, ivylass. I didn’t read your post carefully when you said they told him it was slang for vagina. And I just guessed at what punta would be slang for.
chestnutmare is correct - they were saying puta, not punta.
Sometimes puta is the english equivalent for damn (or f*!k) when something goes wrong, something breaks, etc. In Nicragua I think, the term is puta madre, but it doesn’t have that bad of a connotation, it is more like damn.
Like chestnutmare stated, it is also the slang for whore but when used as an insult, it is usually yelled or stated much more emphatically…never muttered…unless you’re losing an argument (and then under your breath)…
This is the case for Cuban, Puerto Rican & Dominican slang. It may be different in other latinamerican cultures.
I’m more knowledgable of the culture of Spain, as opposed to the American hispanic cultures, but in Spain, puta means whore or bitch. I would assume that that was what he heard.
In my Mexican influenced culture, spanish adopts english words. Some of us who never SCHOLASTICALLY learned spanish, tend to add an “N” in words to make it their own.
You can always add “ita” or “issimo” to a word and it is valid, so adding the “n” in the middle of a word wasn’t a big deal to us kids.
For example:mucho becomes muncho (much) carcel becomes carcen…etc. (jail)
As for negative slang… Puta = Slut or whore, depending on how u use it. That man probably put an “N” in it on purpose. Verga = dick Panocha, La Jolla = both mean pussy in slang, but have real meanings too (big tortilla, Jewelry, respectively) culo = ass hole
ivylass, not all spanish words follow the gender rules. It get complicated if you study it… so just learn the exceptions.
I took spanish in high school cuz i thought it would be a breezer course… but no, i had to learn how to spell, accent and conjugate.
So, if you look at the spanish word for dick, verga, it looks feminine in nature, but it’s not. Hey, i just realized, VIAGRA looks similar to this word… hm…
Something I learned in HS… LA RADIO was different from EL RADIO. “La” refered to the broadcast, “El” refered to the box.
“Punta Gorda” means, as a town, “Fat Tip”, I think of it as a peninsular area wider than normal. But in the mexican slang, if you say “Punta Gorda” the first thing that came to “our” mind is a big and fat dick head. Sorry, but mexicans are that way.
