The first thing I did this morning was learn a new Spanish word: “guasap.” I figured out what it was from the context. Somebody was complaining that guasap destroyed her movie-going experience. Can you guess what it is?
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The first thing I did this morning was learn a new Spanish word: “guasap.” I figured out what it was from the context. Somebody was complaining that guasap destroyed her movie-going experience. Can you guess what it is?
I’m about 98% sure I know the answer, but I’ll let others play (and then reveal if I was right or not).
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I’m guessing “gossip”. As in people were chatting during the movie about personal matters and this ruined the movie for her.
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You are absolutely right in that it’s a spanification, if I may say that, of an English word. A word, I have to add, doesn’t have any relevance to my life because of my age.
I do love gossip, though. 🙂
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WhatsApp?
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My guess as well! Initial w (or wh) often becomes Hispanicized with gu- as in the famous whisky (sometimes written güisqui).
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Absolutely. 🙂 I collect these cases to present them to students.
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You are a real linguist, lady. 🙂
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Weird that when I go back to Spain and pronounce it the correct way I get a lot of uuuh?? so I go back to the guasap. Which is actually pronounced more like guásap.
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I was once completely defeated by the Spanish pronunciation of “puzzle.” Stared at the person I was talking to for 5 minutes, unable to figure it out. 🙂
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