July 14, 2009

Love is in the air


The Humboldt Current is chilling the tides, bringing us into the "cold and dry" season (relatively cold and dry, mind you), but romances are heating up anyway, at least for my island companions. The upside, in addition to chisme (gossip) and smiles around the household, is an expanding vocabulary.

pelado/pelad boyfriend/girlfriend, actually means a peeling (e.g. carrot peeling)
vacilar to go out with/hook up with
me exitas you turn me on

Oh, and some English has jumped the language fence. "Full," for example, and "sexy." Which leads me to my favourite expression of the week:

full sexy pronounced FOOL SAKE-SEE

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