Music Banter - View Single Post - Discosion en Espanol
View Single Post
Old 12-11-2006, 07:24 PM   #25 (permalink)
Raine
Full-Time Hellion
 
Raine's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: PA
Posts: 1,531
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by oojay View Post
yeah, there are hundereds of spanish vinaculars. around here the mexi's use "juevos" as "balls" or "nuts".
And Mexicans don't call themselves Mexicans in all parts of the US>
It was shortened to Xicano (or Xicana) and originally meant a person that was of Mexican descent living in America.
Slowly more and mroe Mexicans adopted the phrase and now you've got Mexican's calling themselves Xicanos. Although in English it's spelled Chicano and it pronounced the same.
__________________
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Raine is offline   Reply With Quote