LAS LENGUAS INGLESA Y ESPAÑOLA de Delfín Carbonell

  HARD-ON A hard-on means an erection in a man. As lexicographer Tony Thorne notes: “To have a hard-on has been the most common way of expressing male sexual tumescence since the early 20th century.” It is also the title of a Leonard Cohen song, “Don’t Go Home with Your Hard-On” , which includes the line: “Ah but don’t go home with your hard-on / It will only drive you insane.” The term appears frequently in contemporary fiction. In Sally Beauman’s Destiny (London: Bantam, Corgi, 1987):  Plenty of excitement, plenty of anxiety, and no hard-on; just a limp cock hanging between his legs.” It is useful to be familiar with expressions like this, even if one seldom uses them in conversation. They help understand risqué jokes, colloquial dialogue, and modern literature where sexual slang plays a role.

  El oftalmólogo Dr. Zamenhof (1859-1917) inventó el idioma Esperanto, con una gramática simple que se puede dominar en 5 horas. Todos los sustantivos acaban en "o": Tago, día. Birdo, pájaro. Leono, león. No hay excepciones.  En inglés tenemos una terminación en "o" que me trae de cabeza. "Wacky" es "chalado, loco", y tiene un sustantivo, en slang, "wacko." Y decimos "President Trump is a wacko".  "Kid" es un chico, un chaval, un muchacho y tenemos "kiddo" como otra forma más.  "Weird" es extraño, raro... y a un tipo excéntrico le llamamos "weirdo". Y decimos: "President Trump is a weirdo." "Wine" es vino, y a un borrachín, de los de nariz colorada y pantalones medio caídos, le decimos "wino".  Todos sabemos que abundan los "psychopaths" pero un "psycho" suena peor, como elemento perturbador, como en "President Trump is a psycho....

Urban Dictionary is "a crowdsourced online dictionary" for slang vocabulary and phraseology, started by a certain Aaron Peckham, in 1999. This so-called dictionary is a useless tool, put together by a crowd of illiterate halfwits, and blessed by the founder, Peckham, who being a moron too, he is at least a "smarty pants" who is probably making some "dough" out of this trashy, worthless slang wordbook. I suppose no one checks the definitions, spelling, grammar, syntax of the contributors, and certainly the veracity and existence of the words are not checked either. No proper citations are given. They do include sexist and racist comments, and there are sprinkles of insulting terminology, and plenty of ignorant references to the female anatomy. Urban Dictionary ´s scholarly definition of "pussy": "Something men babies spend 9 months getting out of - and the rest of their lives trying to get back into ..." (The other definitions of...

In the movies today we hear profanity, taboo language, racial slurs, insults... and accept that as the norm. Our attitudes have changed and everything goes... but it was not always like that. Holywood had a Motion Picture Production Code , in 1930, which stated: "Pointed profanity (this includes words God, Christ, Jesus Christ -unless used reverently-, Hell, S.O.B., Damn, however used, IS FORBIDDEN."

The N word is taboo among polite society, and that is why instead of "nigger" people use the silly euphemism "the N word ." Nigga, nigger, niggar refer to a black person. I suppose this is so because black people react violently when th ey are addressed as "niggar". If they did not react, wh ites would probably s top calling them "nigg ars" and would have to find another word. Blacks call whites "kraka", and whites feel insulted by the term . I sort of like it myself.  Most of my friends are krakas and they are all right, most of them. Words are neither good nor bad, only insofar as we are affected by them, to paraphrase Baruch de Spinoza.  Call me whatever, but treat me as a human being. There's the rub. YOLO is a new acrony m used on the internet, mainly by those who are still wet behind the ears, and it means You Only L ive Once.  It is used to justify whatever one does because, after all, we only live once, so what the he...

Expeler gases por el ano, especialmente con ruido, pero no siempre, es to fart. Por lo menos lleva este verbo en lengua inglesa desde 1300, pero a la gente sigue resultándole ofensivo y de mal gusto, tanto el verbo como el acto en sí. Los de habla inglesa se alarmarían si alguien gritase: Someone has farted here! Pero para evitar eso se han inventado los eufemismos, que son palabras más dulces para decir lo que se considera crudo u ordinario, como to pass gas o to pass, break wind , que suena mucho más bonito y delicado. I have gas , tengo gases. Hugh Rawson, en su Wicked Words, cita el Dictionary de l Dr. Johnson: ………………….. Love is the fart Of every heart It pains a man when ‘tis kept close; And others doth offend, when ‘tis let loose. …………………. Un insulto es fartface , que tiene miga. Pero, ojo, que gas , es gasoline también, y en los Estados Unidos vamos a un gas station a llenar el tanque de gas. Los ingleses dicen petrol, pero emplean también la exp...