It's dead simple to get started ... you pick up a dictionary, naturally a Spanish dictionary in our case, and you look around for pairs of words right slap bang next to each other on the page which can be put together to make something silly, or peculiar, or preposterous, or weird .... I tried it first with that Penguin pocket Spanish Dictionary i wrote about a few posts back .... because it was handy.
The first pair I came across was this ....
libélula liberal .... generous dragonfly
....then I went on to find ... in the Penguin and the Collins Gem ..
ponche poncho listless punch
porro porrón stupid leek
bazo beato blessed spleen
candil cándido innocent oil-lamp
gripe gris grey flu
habichuela hábil clever bean
hospedar hosco grim lodge
visera viscosa slimy eye-shade
tabla tabü forbidden vegetable plot
fornicador fornido husky fornicator
zafiro zafio ill-mannered sapphire
franela franca generous flannel
fieltro fiel faithful felt hat
nena nemorosa woody baby
mesonero mestizo hybrid innkeeper
metralladora métrico metric machine-gun
manubrio manual handy barrel-organ
vivaque vivarache sprightly bivouac
gacha gacha droopy porridge
Along with those were lots of boring and feeble ones, the parochial parishioner, the the gormless idiot, the floury flour, the volcanic volcano....that sort of thing.
I'm sure I could get some really brilliant ones using a bigger dictionary ... it certainly worked that way with French and Welsh. We will see.... but for now it is my world-famous music spot, bringing you the best in Spanish music from all around the globe.... and today, we have brought to you, no expense spared, Sidonie with Un Día de Mierda ... which, if nothing else, will remind you that a day is masculine in Spanish ...
y toda la culpa sera mia
hoy sera un dia de mierda
estoy tan cansado que ni puedo llorar.
Te mande un mensaje ebrio
con las primeras luces del domingo
santo dios como me arrepiento
me responderás educada y sera peor.
La pizza esta quemándose en el horno
me quedo en el sofá mirando el rostro
que se refleja en el televisor
me pongo a ver el apartamento para escapar de mi maldito tiempo
para olvidar que has vuelto a Madrid.
No esta mal esta melodía
me recuerda algo del 72
ojala que no sea un plagio pero que mas da solo quiero silbar.
SILBIDOS
La pizza esta quemándose en el horno
me quedo en el sofá mirando el rostro
que se refleja en el televisor
me pongo a ver el apartamento para escapar de mi maldito tiempo
para olvidar que has vuelto a madrid
para olvidar que has vuelto a madrid
para olvidar que as vuelto a madrid
hoy sera un día de mierda
y toda la culpa sera mía
hoy sera un día de mierda
mierda.
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