• @Siegfried@lemmy.world
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    367 months ago

    “Molestar” in spanish does not mean the same as in english. For example, “este post es una cagada y me molesta muchisimo” means that your shitpost is bothering me.

      • snooggums
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        117 months ago

        If 99% of the common is for sexual molestation them it means sexual moleststion in common usage even if it means something else in other contexts where the meaning hasn’t changed. Nobody is going to think someone means anything else when someone says their uncle molested them.

        Definitions outside of structured settings like science or law are based on common usage.

        • @over_clox@lemmy.world
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          57 months ago

          True. If by chance I ever did use the word outside of common usage context, I’d make sure to clarify exactly what I mean…

          “Snooggums is verbally molesting me!”

    • NONE
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      37 months ago

      No podría haberlo explicado mejor XD

  • JackGreenEarth
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    117 months ago

    That’s where I eat my spaghetti puttanesca (prostitute’s spaghetti)

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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    7 months ago

    I would eat at “The Moléster” just for the funny name. It’s gotta have the accent, though.

    I never had pho before, either, and there’s a place opening up soon down the street from me called “What the Pho?!” which makes me wanna go there when it opens.

  • Snot Flickerman
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    7 months ago

    I mean, this an extreme version of what is a reality.

    One of the most popular local Mexican places in my town has always just been “La Puerta,” aka “The Door.”

    More recently there was a food truck named “La Luna’s Tacos” or “The Moon’s Tacos.”

  • @Botzo@lemmy.world
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    27 months ago

    I definitely ate at one called La Cucaracha several times before I understood.

    The guisado burrito was fantastic.