The Official Spanglish Dictionary: Un User's Guia to More Than 300 Words and Phrases That Aren't Exactly Espanol or Ingles [Paperback]

¡Oye Broder, Get a Load of These Palabras!
They're all Spanglish words -- and you can hear them on the streets of Miami, Los Angeles, Nueva York, and lots of otherciudadesacross the country where English and Spanish seem to blend and bend into a mind-boggling, veryfonihybrid of two different languages -- or are they sodiferente?Mira:
lonchando:Having lunch. I'mlonchando,I don't wanna talk to him now.
yogur:Yogurt. Este yogurdoesn't really hit the spot when you'relonchando.Maybe I need to order ajambergueand some fries.
bacunclíner:Vacuum cleaner. ¡Aye!I think thebacunclínerjust swallowed my earring!
frizando:To make frozen, or freezing. Turn up the heat,¡estoy frizando!
Before long, you'll be ready to graduate to the next level of Spanglish, with terms likepata de puerco( pig leg -- a new way to call someone an idiot) andJamón del Diablo(deviled-ham product) and phrases like ¡:Boto la casa por la ventana! ( That rocks! )The Official Spanglish Dictionarycontains hundreds of terms toguauyour friends and family, plus Spanglish terms of endearment, insults, and those all-important Spanglish pickup lines: A ti no te duelen ni los callos ( You're so fine, even your bunions don't hurt ).Bill CruzandBill Teckspend way too much time collecting Spanglish terms for the popular CubanAmericanisms column that appears in the Miami-based magazineGeneration ñ.Bill C, a musician, is the originator of CubanAmericanisms. Bill T. is the founder ofGeneration ñ.They both enjoy sunning themselves onMallamibish.Liz Balmeseda, Columnist The Miami Herald A surprising feat of spanglicity from a couple of guys named Bill. The authors take Cubonics and other crossover strains to a new level InThe Official Spanglish Dictionary.It simplylƒ