Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Spanglish





I absolutely LOVE speaking in Spanglish! 

Yes, I know it can come across offensive to fluent Spanish speakers and I understand why.  The Spanish language is beautiful. I completely get  why some people would prefer you speak in either English or Spanish and not mix them all up. 

I usually throw in some Spanglish when I am at home or with close friends who speak Spanish.  I try to speak Spanish as proper as possible with non-English speakers.

I have actually learned a lot of 'spanglish' words from my husband.  Parquear, lonche, troca, etc  ( to park, lunch, truck). 

I invented a Spanglish word that I would like to share.
SCUTATE  pronounced scoot-a-tay
which means scoot over! (move over)

I remember the Mexican laughing every time I said 'scutate', but guess what.....  Now, when I say it, he scoots over!  My son knows what 'scutate' means.  It has even spread at work. 

I would love to hear other Spanglish words that you use a lot or one that you've made up yourself.

10 comments:

  1. Watchale is constantly used in the valley. Mothers tell their children to watch out.

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  2. watchale! good one Rita! Thanks for commenting!!

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  3. Ha ha ha! I love it...scutate! Reminds me of the Spanglish word my non-Spanish speaking BFF from High School invented: "Escucharacha". She pretty much used it for everything, but mostly as "Scoot out of the way!" :)

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  4. Too funny Leslie! You know somethings are just easier to say in spanish. ie: duermate, hablame, etc.... don't you think scutate is much easier to say than, scoot over????
    Thanks for commenting.

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  5. I love your Spanglish word! lo... My Spanglish Word or My Daugther's spanglish word is POR (por favor) + PLEASE =PORPLEASE, My daughter is very funny and make spanglish word everyday! LOL

    Namaste!
    http://mamiholisticaygenial.blogspot.com/

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  6. Yissele,
    I'm going to start incorporating porplease into conversations with my hubby. Great word!

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  7. Scutate! *LOL* I think I'll be adopting that one into my Spanglish vocabulario. I hate to admit it, but I speak so much Spanglish that I don't know when I'm speaking it. Like the examples you cited above, I've use them all thinking all along they were proper "Spanish." Wooops!

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  8. Ezzy,
    I'm guilty of it too. When I was thinking of which examples to give, I knew "parquear" was not the correct word for park. I finally had to look it up. The correct word is "estacionar."
    Please adopt scutate and help me spread my spanglish word.... LOL

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  9. haha scutate is cute. Sometimes my fiance forgets words in english or confuses them- My favorite was when instead of a wrench he asked for a traunch.
    I thought it was so funny, now we just say traunch instead of wrench :)

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  10. Too funny Nikol! Glad you stopped by and left a comment. Isn't it crazy how things just stick! You'll always know what he is talking about when he says "traunch"...... *very cute*

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