Berraco

So, finally after so many months of no new words we have a new word of the day: Berraco. It was on a menu somewhere and I’ve heard it several more times in Colombia. Apparently it is a colombianismo, a colombianism. It means difficult, tough, macho. The menu item it indicated? A glass of pure [...]

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Soup Soup the Magical Food

Ahh, soup. We went to the market the other day, in San Augustine, planning to make some spinach thing. First challenge: the word for market, at least in this particular town, was not mercado. So when we asked for markets we were instead dropped at a minimarket type corner store. I asked a woman on [...]

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Mi Mancha

I am pretty sure that in the dictionary this means my stain. But here it means my gang, my posse, my crew, my group. Mi mancha.

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New word of the day: Mechar

Me he mechado con mi namorado. I fought with my boyfriend. I feel like ninety percent of what my sisters and I talk about is their boyfriends/love interests/exboyfriends. And they are always mechando. Annie is dating a guy who is 7 years older than her. They were mechando because he didn´t want to go out to the same [...]

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Salimos al Lleca

New word of the day: lleca, jerga for street. Jerga = slang. Apparently lleca comes from calle (street) turned around backwards. I read about this language that developed in France, Verlan, in which all the syllables are reversed sometimes changed a little, sometimes reversed in order as well as reversing each syllable. Sounds like pig latin except more [...]

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