Still sick, sick, sick as a dog with the flu that’s going around Xela. I have barely left bed in three days. Nothing much on the news front, as a result.
In class last week, my teacher taught me the proper way to invent words in Spanish.
The formula?
Take a noun, any noun. Best if it’s something specific.
Remove the last vowel.
To create a verb, add “ear” to the end.
To create an adjective, add “eado.”
So, from cerveza, you can make the verb “cervezear” – to go out for beers. Or, “cervezeado” – to have drunk too many beers?
From gringa (white girl), you get “gringear.” This, explained my teacher, is what cazagringas (white-girl hunters) do.
Or, my favourite: chocobanano. Observe, in the following photograph estoy chocobananeando:
(Photo taken in 2008 and stolen from my friend Nicola)
Now, excuse me while I go painkillerear.
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