Gus Lozada, meet our prince (King to be)...

[Gus Lozada]

Originally Posted by rasputin1963

@ Gus Lozada:


Just out of curiosity, Gus, when you need to type in Spanish on the computer, how do you produce your Spanish characters?

Like the accents, the tilde, the inverted exclamation point and question mark, etc.?

Is your keyboard mapped to produce Spanish characters.... Or do you have to manually enter them using the little Windows utility, or maybe you are typing in keystroke-shortcuts?

In a PC without a spanish keyboard, you can enter the accents with ALT + 132 / 135 / 164, etc. In a Mac, press OPTION + E + the vowel with required accent and OPTION + N + N (again) for the Ñ.

My Macbook Pro -the computer I'm typing at right now- I don't have a Spanish keyboard because I bought it in the USA. But I can easily type word en español.

[Gus Lozada]

Originally Posted by UstadKhanAli

This.

Yeah, that too

[Lukenskywalker]

I did'nt know what 'chinga su madre' meant after hearing it for about a year, everytime I busted/questioned a suspect.
Went on detail with a new County Investigator, that came over from the Sheriifs dept..
She told me what it meant and cursed out some guys that we arrested in Spanish, that were dissing her and her female attributes.

I asked her what she said to them, since they were also insulting her...

She told me she told them, they were short, stinky, and had little Dicks.
jeez... I had to Marry this woman.

[rasputin1963]

Originally Posted by Lukenskywalker

I did'nt know what 'chinga su madre' meant after hearing it for about a year, everytime I busted/questioned a suspect..

In Latin culture you may call a man any insulting epithet with varying degrees of tort intended and received.... but as soon as you bring his sainted mother into it, you have impugned very gravely indeed.

Thus "chinga tu madre" (it's even MORE insulting if you use the Informal You instead of the Formal You) is possibly the worst insult you can level at a Latin man.

[Lukenskywalker]

Originally Posted by rasputin1963

In Latin culture you may call a man any insulting epithet with varying degrees of tort intended and received.... but as soon as you bring his sainted mother into it, you have impugned very gravely indeed.

Thus "chinga tu madre" (it's even MORE insulting if you use the Informal You instead of the Formal You) is possibly the worst insult you can level at a Latin man.

well. I didn't know what they were saying to me so it was obviously just 'water off a ducks back'.
The rudimentary Spanish we were taught in training were things like;
'Driver, get out of the car etc.
My college Spanish was so stilted...didn't work on the Puerto Rican ladies and gentlemen...they spoke 'machine gun Spanish, very fast and staccato.

I didn't really learn any nuances until I met my future wife and startedgoing to family functions.
After many trips to PR and DR I started picking up the subtle differences of the local towns.
Believe me, I stuck my foot in my boca many times trying to be funny and then saying something so outrageous that made everyone stop and stare...you could hear the proverbial pin drop...then everyone would be pointing at me, pissing their pantalones. laughing at me.


Lucky for me, Latinos are very warm, forgiving, people.