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help! they both sound same (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 10 months ago by lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de to c/memes@lemmy.ml

description:
jim carrey pressing red button amongst two buttons meme template.
red button is titled "coger(spanish)"(lit: to grab/take, or fuck), whilst blue is titled "correr(portuguese)" (lit: to run).

jim carrey pressing red button is superimposed with the text "my brain when I hear portuguese correr"

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[-] chiwiu@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

"coger" means fuck in latin america, but not in Spain where we use it as "grab/pick" normally. It causes fun reactions to latinamericans visiting or living in Spain for sure as it's used a lot.

"correr" is also "run" in Spanish, we share a lot of words with Portuguese . 🇵🇹

[-] mars296@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

Interesting. I have never heard of coger being fuck and the only Spanish I speak is with latinamericans. Is it a more recent slang?

[-] lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

maybe you mostly talk to Colombians? they don't have that meaning of coger afaik.

[-] mars296@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

In order of frequency I would guess: Cuban, Colombian, Puerto Rican, Venezuelan, Argentina, and then the rest.

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