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jim carrey pressing red button amongst two buttons meme template.
red button is titled “coger(spanish)”(lit: to grab/take, or fuck), whilst blue is titled “correr(portuguese)” (lit: to run).

jim carrey pressing red button is superimposed with the text “my brain when I hear portuguese correr”

  • Chiwiu@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    “coger” means fuck in latin america, but not in Spain where we use it as “grab/pick” normally. It causes fun reactions to latinamericans visiting or living in Spain for sure as it’s used a lot.

    “correr” is also “run” in Spanish, we share a lot of words with Portuguese . 🇵🇹

      • lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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        11 months ago

        whoa, I was just wondering about whether similar thing happens in portuguese too. thanks for reading my thoughts!

        • Drew Belloc@programming.dev
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          11 months ago

          Not just this happens in portuguese but sometimes is in the same country, there’s a state here that calls a kind of bread of “cacetinho” with is a way to say little dick in the rest of the country

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        11 months ago

        tell me you’re not learning with Shakira songs… native speakers can barely understand her 😅😁

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      11 months ago

      Interesting. I have never heard of coger being fuck and the only Spanish I speak is with latinamericans. Is it a more recent slang?

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          11 months ago

          In order of frequency I would guess: Cuban, Colombian, Puerto Rican, Venezuelan, Argentina, and then the rest.

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        11 months ago

        slang but not new slang as it’s widely used and it’s even in the RAE dictionary (31 point).

        Seemingly used in central america, Argentina, Bolivia, México, Uruguay, Venezuela and Dominican Republic.