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cost me about 1000 quit to put my rhd car on dago plates about 11 years ago so i would check that advice
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Re: LHD dealers profit
Don't read this then:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dago
and
http://http://www.yourdictionary.com/dago
It has no place on a Spanish expats' forum. If it does, I don't.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dago
da·go also Da·go (dg)
n. pl. da·gos also Da·gos or da·goes also Da·goes Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for an Italian, Spaniard, or Portuguese.
n. pl. da·gos also Da·gos or da·goes also Da·goes Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for an Italian, Spaniard, or Portuguese.
http://http://www.yourdictionary.com/dago
dago (dā′gō)
noun pl. dagos -·gos or dagoes -·goes
SLANG a person, often dark-skinned, of Spanish, Portuguese, or, now esp., Italian descent: a term of hostility and contempt
noun pl. dagos -·gos or dagoes -·goes
SLANG a person, often dark-skinned, of Spanish, Portuguese, or, now esp., Italian descent: a term of hostility and contempt
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Re: LHD dealers profit
Don't read this then:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dago
and
http://http://www.yourdictionary.com/dago
It has no place on a Spanish expats' forum. If it does, I don't.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dago
and
http://http://www.yourdictionary.com/dago
It has no place on a Spanish expats' forum. If it does, I don't.
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Re: LHD dealers profit
I don't know if I'm right or wrong on this, but maybe it doesn't do any harm to be reminded occasionally that life isn't all bonhomie and we will at times come across arseholes, not a nice word either, of any nationality.
My Spanish bank manager and personal friend often calls me a guiri and I remind him that his father used to ride around on a donkey, but neither of us are offended. Banning words in a sensible discussion is a slippery slope.
My Spanish bank manager and personal friend often calls me a guiri and I remind him that his father used to ride around on a donkey, but neither of us are offended. Banning words in a sensible discussion is a slippery slope.
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Re: LHD dealers profit
I don't know if I'm right or wrong on this, but maybe it doesn't do any harm to be reminded occasionally that life isn't all bonhomie and we will at times come across arseholes, not a nice word either, of any nationality.
My Spanish bank manager and personal friend often calls me a guiri and I remind him that his father used to ride around on a donkey, but neither of us are offended. Banning words in a sensible discussion is a slippery slope.
My Spanish bank manager and personal friend often calls me a guiri and I remind him that his father used to ride around on a donkey, but neither of us are offended. Banning words in a sensible discussion is a slippery slope.
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Re: LHD dealers profit
but the Spanish equivalent is allowed
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Re: LHD dealers profit
However, shout the same word out of the car window when driving and someone is likely to get out their car and hit you!
Oh and there are no words banned on Spanish TV anyway, you can hear swearwords all day and noone really has a problem with it
The whole practive of banning things is a bit of UK and US thing. You can see topless women in adverts on TV and people think it is just natural and not sexual
#12
Re: LHD dealers profit
Yeah, but its not really equivalent. How bad a Spanish swearword is completely depends on context. You may hear a Spanish mum use the c word at the school gates in a conversation and noone really minds as long as it is made in a jokey way.
However, shout the same word out of the car window when driving and someone is likely to get out their car and hit you!
Oh and there are no words banned on Spanish TV anyway, you can hear swearwords all day and noone really has a problem with it
The whole practive of banning things is a bit of UK and US thing. You can see topless women in adverts on TV and people think it is just natural and not sexual
However, shout the same word out of the car window when driving and someone is likely to get out their car and hit you!
Oh and there are no words banned on Spanish TV anyway, you can hear swearwords all day and noone really has a problem with it
The whole practive of banning things is a bit of UK and US thing. You can see topless women in adverts on TV and people think it is just natural and not sexual
it's really hard to explain to English people that the c word & the f word just aren't considered offensive
well, maybe not hard to explain - just to convince them
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Re: LHD dealers profit
That is correct oubout what WOG means, but the Italians in the UK were quite often referred to as WOPS, and the Spanish as DAGOS, of course it would not happen nowadays.