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Albures, or Dirty Spanish 101
Posted: July 30, 2016
sergiogomez / Moderator / Jan 7, 2009 Puns are the staple of Mexican humor. People use them on a daily basis, and these puns, or albures, are almost always sexual jokes or disguised insults. Sometimes they consist of words with two (or more) meanings. Sometimes they are phrases whose meaning changes depending on where you […]
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Termite Resistant Wood for Home Construction Use

Posted: July 29, 2018

robt65 Dec 25, 2010, 5:29 PM Post #1 of 18 (38547 views) Shortcut Termite Resistant Wood for Home Construction Use. Can’t Post | Private Reply I believe at one time I read on this forum, that in Mexico there are several different woods that are pretty termite resistant. I only remember mesquite, another is bamboo. […]

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How do you say someone is going blind in Spanish?
Posted: July 29, 2016
colibri1, Mar 12, 2015, How do you say someone is going blind in Spanish? + + + + + + + + + + esperanza, Mar 13, 2015, The phrase is ‘quedarse ciego’. + + + + + + + + + + Maesonna, Mar 13, 2015 I would have interpreted “quedarse ciego” as “to […]
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