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2 - Passages illustrating register and local variety

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

R. E. Batchelor
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham
C. J. Pountain
Affiliation:
Queen Mary University of London
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Summary

Example of R1* (Peninsular Spanish): Un encuentro en la calle

  1. Pepe: ¡Eh! ¡macho!

  2. Paco: ¡Joder! No te había visto.

  3. Pepe: ¿Qué hay? ¿Cómo te va?

  4. Paco: Psa, tirando … ¿y tú?

  5. Pepe: Yo, me voy tirao tirao.

  6. Paco: Joder, ya será menos.

  7. Pepe: Quita, tío, quita, que estoy de una mala leche.

  8. Paco: Bueno, a ver qué coño te pasa ahora.

  9. Pepe: Que me se ha escacharrao el coche.

  10. Paco: No, ¿otra vez?

  11. Pepe: Otra vez, joder, otra vez.

  12. Paco: Mucha pasta.

  13. Pepe: Coño, no sé … jo, pero como sea mucha lo tiene claro porque hasta que yo no cobre el mecánico no ve un duro.

  14. Paco: Va, tío, olvídate. Esta noche me voy al cine con unas tías. ¿Te vienes?

  15. Pepe: Hum, no sé. Tengo faena.

  16. Paco: Pero que coño vas a tener tú faena. Pero, macho, de que vas. Si es esta noche.

  17. Pepe: Es que … no sé, joder, no sé.

  18. Paco: Pero coño, tío, si es un rato. No me seas cabrón.

  19. Pepe: Jo, tío, que plomo eres, pero ¿no te he dicho que no lo sé?

  20. Paco: ¿Que tienes plan?

  21. Pepe: Te pego un telefonazo.

  22. Paco: Bueno, bien … Pero … jo, es que esta noche no ceno en casa. Mira, yo te llamo y te digo lo que hay.

  23. Pepe: Hecho.

  24. Paco: Sobre las nueve.

  25. Pepe: Muy bien, tío, nos vemos.

The R1* forms are: the expletives ¡joder! and its shortened form ¡jo! (= damn, lit = fuck) and (qué) coño (= shit, lit = cunt); the nouns tías (familiarly=girls, though also=whores or prostitutes) and cabrón (lit=billygoat, but familiarly=bastard), and the expression de una mala leche (=in a foul mood).

Apart from these R1* forms, the conversation has many features which are typical of R1.

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Using Spanish
A Guide to Contemporary Usage
, pp. 4 - 20
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2005

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