More Spanish Questions

[HonkyTonk]

In a song I like there is a word that is not in the dictionary so I don't know it's general origin. The word is "chiquitica" The song line is "chiquitica de mi corazon." The band is Mexican. Anyone know what that word means? Ever hear a latin love song that didn't wear out the word corazon?

Another is this. Flaca is a thin woman. I called a calena sweetheart my flacita (just puting the ita on the end) and she was puzzelled. She asked me what I was trying to say and I said my little thin woman. She said it was "flaquita". Did I understand her correctly? Is there a rule of thumb when adding the "ita/o"? Encinoman said his woman put an s with it and he was Johnsito.

Any ideas?

HT,
the first is a double dimunitive, from chica to chiquita to chiquitica, same meaning just dimunitive or more dimunitive in this case. "little one of my heart" might be a translation but I don't know, I'd have to hear the song.
On the second you can form the dimunitive with either ito/a or cito/a but if the word already ends in c you have to use ito/a for the dimunitive. And in that word the c goes to qu for spelling purposes. The spelling depends on the following letter, to make the k sound if the sound is followed by i or e you use qu: quieto, que, quinto, quebrar etc.
Also, I don't know how you pronounced it but flacita sounds dangerously close to "my little flacid one" which would be what...flacidita? Hmmm... who knows...

[HonkyTonk]

Kery, you da man of the hour. I will have to practice this ito/a cito/a and qu. Are these simple slang or is it taught in advanced Spanish? It's so common with the latinas it pays to know it.

The main line in the song I was referring to is "Un cachito de tu corazon." I understand the song except that one word you explained. I practice my Spanish in music or anyplace I can, but in music are the words and slang phrases the women have said to me while dating. It's a very romantic language we can't touch in English for pure cuteness.

I pronounced flacita 'flock-ita'. Apparently I understood her correctly in that it's not a simple matter of adding ita/o to words. I suppose flaquita was the meaning of what I tried to say...my cute little thin woman.

I still have a lot to learn but it's great fun trying, especially with the women of Latin America as opposed to a classroom up here.

[Clay]

In Peru cacha means f**k, then you can add the cito, quito or era. one thing is for sure, it isnt always spanish

Brings me to another one of my embarrasing spanish moments: My ex novia was telling me of the one hundred and some odd different fruits that grow in Colombia and she asked me what fruits grow in Oklahoma and I said not many: "manzanas, uvas, no se que decir en espanol pero en ingles 'peaches'" and immediately she said you must never say this in espanol, that it is a word "muy grossero" from what I could gather it was the "tu" form of pechar?, which means to f**k? Any of you experts have something to clearify this?

From what I gather, the word that peaches sounded like is plural of picha, which is a malo palabro por penis.

[Clay]

In Peru jerga for p*ssy is picho. penis is pinga. A really cool word in spanish is cabrone, it can be used in Peru as either bad or good ways, depending on wether the victim is friend or foe.

[HonkyTonk]

Kery, I always buy my latino CD's in South America. I hear a group I like and buy the CD. "Hecho in Colombia" means something to me. Breaking tradition, today I received a CD off CDnow, which is actually Amazon, of course a latino CD with the words to the song I asked about above. Because it's made in the US and not Mexico, it had both the Spanish lyrics and the English translations. I have never seen this. The translation for the line "Chiquitica de mi corazon" is...guess what? "Little one of my heart." Exactly what you said it was. Thumbs up Professor

Clay, pinga is also dick in Panama and chucha (sp?) is pussy. I can see no need to learn these words as most latinas are extremely offended by their use and the words vary so much by region and country. If a latina novia finds them cute, she will tell you. Words that latinas in general do find cute are our wordforeverydamnthing....bull****. Trust me, it's a big hit in a humorous way as well as the word '*****' which has no literal translation into Spanish. It is becomming a universal word no matter what the language. Vulgar sexual terms in Latin America are not looked on a humorous, and for the newbies, I'd just leave them alone altogether.

[In the Know 2]

Honky Tonk, you did good by trying to say "flacita". Like the word fat, gorda, to say little fat one you would say gor dita like you tried with flacita...however...some words do not fit the rule and are exceptions that ya gotta learn one by one...so she corrected you by saying flaquita...but you were thinking right by saying flacita....

Spanish is structurally easier than English
because, for example, most verbs follow a pattern EXCEPT for the irregular verbs which deviate from the pattern just like "little skinny one" or flaquita did from flacita...understand?

[In the Know 2]

In Costa Rica it is OK to coger el bus...take the bus...but it some other nations this means to F the bus literally....
just keep your mind clean and you will be OK

pitillo
pipote
pahilla all mean straw to drink from.

cerdo
chancho
puerco all mean pig

llantas
cauchos tires

it is a lot like how the British say Petrol and we say gas in the US. Flat in Britain and apartment in the US...etc