Titwank

In Spain it’s a cubana, a Cuban, the Uruguayans call it una paja rusa, a Russian wank (not to be confused with a Russian mountain, una montaña rusa, which is a big dipper in the nicest of senses), while José João Dias Almeida’s excellent dictionary of Portuguese argot (calaõ) and idiom informs us that his compatriots think of it as an espanholada. Maybe this explains last month’s statistic showing that 29% of Portuguese would prefer to be Spanish.

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1. kalebeul » The old ones are the best: In Mexico they speak Mexican… sez:
   2 November 2006 at 12:19 PM

   [...] Old man in coffee bar: “All this stuff from Ciutadans about encouraging bilingualism is a load of bollocks. I speak five languages, yeah, honest: Spanish, Ecuadorian, Peruvian, Argentinian and Mexican.” (This uses the same basic material as the one about the prostitute advertising her knowledge of modern languages: Cuban, Greek, French etc « Ciutadans in parliament « [...]

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