The Official Spanglish Dictionary: Un User's Guia to More Than 300 Words and Phrases That Aren't Exactly Espanol or Ingles

The Official Spanglish Dictionary: Un User's Guia to More Than 300 Words and Phrases That Aren't Exactly Espanol or InglesOye Broder, Get a Load of These Palabras They're all Spanglish words and you can hear them on the streets of Miami, Los Angeles, Nueva York, and lots of other ciudades across the country where English and Spanish seem to blend and bend into a mind boggling, very foni hybrid of two different languages or are they so diferente? Mira: lonchando: Having lunch. I'm lonchando, I don't wanna talk to him now. yogur: Yogurt. Este yogur doesn't really hit the

Oye Broder, Get a Load of These Palabras
They're all Spanglish words -- and you can hear them on the streets of Miami, Los Angeles, Nueva York, and lots of other ciudades across the country where English and Spanish seem to blend and bend into a mind-boggling, very foni hybrid of two different languages -- or are they so diferente? Mira:
lonchando: Having lunch. I'm lonchando, I don't wanna talk to him now.
yogur: Yogurt. Este yogur doesn't really hit the spot when you're lonchando. Maybe I need to order a jambergue and some fries.
bacunclíner: Vacuum cleaner. Aye I think the bacunclíner just swallowed my earring
frizando: To make frozen, or freezing. Turn up the heat, estoy frizando
Before long, you'll be ready to graduate to the next level of Spanglish, with terms like pata de puerco (pig leg -- a new way to call someone an idiot) and Jam n del Diablo (deviled-ham product) and phrases like ¡: Boto la casa por la ventana (That rocks ) The Official Spanglish Dictionary contains hundreds of terms to guau your friends and family, plus Spanglish terms of endearment, insults, and those all-important Spanglish pickup lines: A ti no te duelen ni los callos (You're so fine, even your bunions don't hurt).

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Published: 10/13/1998
ISBN: 9780684854120
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.46w x 0.45d