SPANISH MAJOR PROBLEMS

en vez de hacer la tarea...

[micdotcom]

There’s nothing quite like putting one’s unique stamp on a graduation ceremony — and Latinx grads nationwide are making it happen in 2016. This one is stunning: “They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.”

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Happy 112th Birthday Salvador Dali!

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Mensajes en Zona Centro de Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chis.

[dreamingofwaltdisneyworld]

It’s perfectly mad!

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Avoiding the subjunctive like

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[fansylla]

#Gina is a saint for modeling how to stay in your lane

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[pussylipgloss]

this looks like itd be in a 90s spanish textbook

[lladysingstheblues]

Aww

[quecooltura]

idiots:

me:

let’s be real

[agua-de-sandia]

The best part of being bilingual is x2 the memes

[profeminist]

Mexico’s Quiet Marriage Equality Revolution

“Outside of Mexico, and even inside of Mexico, these advances are not widely known … but it is irreversible,” the lawyer who started the wave of cases now sweeping the country told BuzzFeed News.

Courts in more than two-thirds of Mexico’s 31 states have granted same-sex couples the right to marry over the past two years in a series of rulings that will likely make marriage equality a reality nationwide in the near future.

The wave of rulings throughout Mexico hasn’t caused the uproar that has followed rulings in the United States over the past year striking down state laws barring same-sex couples from marrying. Couples have not rushed to marry nor have conservatives organized major protests.

This is in part because the technicalities of Mexican law have meant these decisions have been much more narrow in their immediate impact. Each decision applies only to the individuals who have brought the cases, and other same-sex couples will still have to sue in order to marry. It takes multiple cases meeting certain technical requirements for the courts to nullify a state law in Mexico — a hurdle that has not yet been met.

But with new rulings being announced almost every week — judges in six new states ruled in favor of marriage equality in the first two months of 2015 alone — it seems almost inevitable that this day is coming, say legal experts who have closely followed the litigation.

“It’s just a matter of time,” said Geraldina Gonzalez de la Vega, a lawyer who worked on the first of these suits filed in 2011 and is now a clerk to a Supreme Court minister. “This has spread all over the country.”

Read the full piece here

[pokop]

#SinFrioDF (en Mexico City, Mexico)

[spanishskulduggery]

When someone says they like to eat polla instead of pollo

[lostangeles]

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The Romance Languages are those siblings that everyone says look alike, and then they look at each other disgusted like, “Ugh. We do not.”

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!!!!!!!!

[linguistic-multitude]

But Romanian is the one everyone says must be adopted

[spanishskulduggery]

Romanian is that child that’s totally related, but everyone’s convinced that they’re a love child from an affair.

[todropscience]

I need to share this

These chilean builders paralyzed the work because a  female hummingbird decided to nest on this beam.

Do not touch the birdie

source:  Enfierradores DEL NORTE

[malaesthetic]

So good. So pure.

[deposito-de-tirinhas]

[spanishmajorproblems-blog]

me: *is reading in another language*

also me: *reads numbers in native language*

[spanishskulduggery]

Randomly specific verb of the day untar.

You never know when you’re going to need untar until you really need untar. It’s the verb that means “to spread” in the contexts of “spreading butter” or “spreading mayonnaise” or something like that with a knife on bread or something like that.

It can also mean “to smear” or when you get something sticky or greasy on your fingers. So it could also be used for when you need to apply lotion, perfume, or oils to your skin.

Also it can be used with el jabón “soap” to mean something like “to build up a lather” like rubbing the soap to get bubbles and get it to cover your hands or whatever.

If you can imagine a liquid or semi-liquid covering a surface, usually slippery or sticky, that’s untar. Because it’s also related to ungir “to anoint”.

Also untar is sometimes colloquially used to mean “to bribe (someone)” or “to butter someone up / to flatter someone / to brown nose someone”. It probably comes from the same place as “to grease a palm” in English. 

[nicodemiology-blog]

Untar….I like it. I wonder if it can be used in context of the way makeup is sometimes applied?

[spanishskulduggery]

In some cases, yes. Typically the verb is aplicar(se) maquillaje or sometimes maquillar(se) by itself.

You would use untar for things like base, or lotions, bronzer, sunscreen, creams, mudmasks, or sometimes foundation… particularly if it’s something you can apply with your hands/fingers or a sponge instead of brushes or things you use a pencil/wand or something like that for. That’s more pintar(se) or dibujar(se).

You would use untar for things that are more wet and sometimes sticky.