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It's "mosca", which is just a common fly
Commenter gives a logical answer with information that is probably well-known for a good chunk of the world (Spanish speakers), yet it’s somehow still mind-blowing. Like “whoah, that’s where that came from!”
In Spanish you have one tamal but two tamales. In English you have one tamale, two tamales. We incorrectly removed the pluralization from tamales and now we have this hybrid word, tamale.
You’re invited to my house whenever we’re hosting the in laws
yeah, but mosca is femenine while mosquito is masculine. a small mosca would be a mosquita. a large mosquito would be a mosco. an even larger mosco would a moscon. and even even larger moscon would be a mosconaso.
But it's only the female mosquito which is bothersome. We should probably have called them mosquita.
Or moscote, or mosconón. Mosconaso sounds to me like a large swarm of mosquitoes. Lol
Grammatical gender in Spanish is rarely consistent anyway.
Even weirder: the main informal terms for genitals are not congruent with the genital sex.
- Pinga is feminine
- Bollo is masculine
- Papaya is delicious
The meme is funny nonetheless.
Aaaalso, in Mexico calling a mosquito "mosco" is fair.
Which people also occasionally call "mosco"
Never heard that (I'm a native Spanish speaker)
Yes, but spanish is spoken all over the world. Who knows where the commenter is from
Well there is a lot of regional differences in Spanish
I have in Mexico
Yes, but it just means mosquito
Right, that's what I'm saying, "Traes un mosco/mosquito/zancudo atrás"
But it doesn't mean fly
I'm not sure what you're getting at but I don't think anybody implied that
Dwight_Sheldon_mode on It's "mosca", which is just a common fly
Which people also occasionally call "mosco"