If there’s one neat thing about the Spanish language, it’s that it’s a very creative language, at least in my experience with it. Whether you’re talking about jokes with double entendre or nicknames, Spanish is a pretty fun language to speak and understand. So this week, the first in our weekly list segment, we decided to list the top words for “butt.”
Pompis – This is the word I heard used in my family.
By Sylvia Oben, Latina Voices As a freelance reporter for the newspaper La Raza in Chicago, I have had to adapt to the Mexican way of speaking Spanish even though I am Puerto Rican. Doing an assignment takes longer than if I were writing it in my Puerto Rican dialect, but I…
I had a teacher in middle school who called me a "friega quedito." I think we all know what he really meant. But he was a decent man and would never use the word that the phrase called for, at least not in public. "Usted, señor Landa", profe Garza would…
*I'm a Marisa Bono fan. She kicks serious butt as a Latino Civil Rights litigator, and is just as passionate about being a mom. Lots of moms and dads out there will relate to this. VL By Marisa Bono, NewsTaco “Mamá, donde está el rombo?” My two-year old son “Papito”…