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Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

Infected. Like a virus that won't go away.

"You're coming with us, no?"

"This is the house of my friend."

Well, not so negative as a virus or plague...just my English being altered by all-too-common ways of speaking in Mexico.

The tag-on no to questions. Dropping the apostrophe possessive in favor of the more cumbersome of add-on.

I find that when something mildly startles me, I say 'uy!'

What Mexicanisms have you picked up?

lozwich · Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 1536

They're more Spanish-isms than solely Mexicanisms, but yes, I do that too.

One day while reading the employment pages, I heard myself say "There aren't many works in here". Shocked

I also feel like I'm losing my English some days, and there are some words that I just find it easier to use the Spanish for.

MikeySaid · Joined: 10 Nov 2004 Posts: 509 Location: Torreon, Mexico

Ay!

I battle to complete my work.

They have to present an exam.

Dragonlady · Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 4:57 am Post subject:

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El Gallo · Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 318

I went to the electronics store in the US to check out AV equipment and asked about a ca��n and a grabadora. By coincidence, the clerk was Mexican-American and didn't even blink as he directed me to the right displays.

TheLongWayHome · Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 1016 Location: San Luis Piojosi

Using aish when something annoys me.

Can you open me the door?

I'm going with the doctor.

Driving with my left arm hanging out of the window.

Phil_K · Joined: 25 Jan 2007 Posts: 2041 Location: A World of my Own

�H�jole!

I even used it on the phone to my mother in England.

Using the car horn too much.

lozwich · Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 1536

I love Ya!. It just sums up that so much in English can't.

How about gestures? I gesture a ton more than I ever used to, and think it brings a lot more to my communications. Laughing

geaaronson · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 948 Location: Mexico City

I use my hands much more to express myself.

Whenever I see champinones, I think to myself �� CHAMPINONES�� not mushrooms.
The same for escuelas.

I use the expression MORE OR LESS more.

when in Merida I joked more about putas. This always got a big kick out of my Mexican audiences, similar to the reaction I would get from Afro-Americans living in the south when I referred to butts.

JakeJakeJake · Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 135

saying, in english, on entering a restaurant... how many are we?