(Sadly, not suitable for kids or the sexually modest; kids, you’ll have to go to a pool hall in your local barrio — or some similar place — to learn to sling dirty Spanish vocabulary, ’cause I’m not supposed to corrupt you by teaching you about it)
This political yard sign, in mean-street Spanish, passed on by Monica Macaulay on Facebook, back on 7/24:
MM: OMG I want this sign for our yard! (the yard in question is in Madison WI, and MM shares it with Joe Salmons; professionally, they are linguists of some eminence, which is how I got to know them)
The text (just seven words):
Chinga tu MAGA pendejo ‘Fuck your MAGA idiot / asshole’
No mas Naranja ‘No more Orange Guy’
The first line alone is a compact masterpiece of everyday US Spanish vulgarity, with chinga … pendejo; and the whole thing conveys political slurs on the Orange Menace. Note: naranja is a (feminine) noun meaning ‘orange (the fruit)’, hence also a (masculine) noun meaning ‘orange (the color)’, hence also a masculine noun meaning ‘an orange(-colored) man’.
The sign writer failed to work culo ‘butt, ass’ or maricón ‘fag, fairy’ into the sign, but then you can’t do every fucking thing in seven words, gimme a break.
July 30, 2024 at 12:30 pm |
Arnold, I enjoyed this post and others. You once wrote about my artwork in the before time. Hope you are well! Sorry to reconnect now as I just had an exhibition you probably would have enjoyed entitled “Koons Ruins.”
Warm regards, Kathy Aoki
July 30, 2024 at 4:24 pm |
Oh my, that was 2019, a lifetime ago. Since then I’ve almost died a couple of times and had my gall bladder removed, and gotten even more disabled, but somehow had my kidney disease stabilize, so I’m no longer constantly about to die, but with some luck might live another ten years, startling thought. “Koons Ruins” sounds like my kind of thing; will search for some net evidences of it. Delighted that you are still flourishing.
July 30, 2024 at 3:18 pm |
Here in Winston Salem there is a very rowdy bar called “Bar La Chingada”.