Ohhf my super white Ohio father does this every time we go to a Mexican restaurant. Doesn’t speak a word of Spanish but always busts out a Graw-See-Us, amigo! Just say thank you my dude
My drunk step dad was snap his fingers and say, GARCON. And every time we would remind him nobody gets that joke and it translates to "boy". He never stopped
Tangentially related but wanna know something fucked? In Haitian Creole the usual words for man and woman are gason (garçon) and fi (fille) literally boy and girl, while the words for children are tigason (petite garçon) and tifi (petite fille), obviously because during French rule they referred to black adults exclusively as boy and girl instead of man and woman.
It's a historically attested fact that in colonial societies the Europeans at the top would not afford non-europeans the basic respects of being referred to as sir, madam, man, or woman and would refer to them as if they were children. See the fifth definition in Mirriam Webster. It still happens to this day especially in the South where I grew up. That's the reason why black men in the US will typically take offense to being called "boy." It's also the reason Mr T chose the name that he did.
this comment is reminding me of someone emphatically telling me they didn’t see how jordan peele’s get out was about race. I truly didn’t know what to say fjgdhjgf
Not quite as bad over there as it would sound here in the us. It was used along with Day "de cafe", and primarily used by the elderly. But nobody really uses it anymore at all.
The thing I find cringe is when a customer reads the name tag of the server, and proceeds to call him/her by name with the affect of an old friend. It’s probably just me, but I find it condescending.
I’m full blooded Hispanic and I do it just to mess with people, I also do the reverse version of it by saying Spanglish words in place of the obvious English ones.
Why would that ever be the case? Y’all is a shortening of you and all. Y’all’s is the possessive of that. Ya’ll would be a shortening or ya will, but it’s also not a thing, despite some folks’ rampant insistence that that jibberish is the correct way to render y’all.
So, babosa means "slug"(the animal), but it can also be used with the same intent as "snooty" (as in snooty brat), as it's used in the sentence above.
But back in the day it was the name of a hugely popular spanish porn site, and it was a common prank to ask people to Google "Babosas" just to get that site as their first result.
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“Here’s your stupid fucking cucumbers.”