Desamor

When reading Deadwing's recent posts, the Spanish word desmaor came to mind, which stands for the lack or absence of love and affection.

Despite all the love songs, Spanish is far from being a romantic language. When it comes to love, it's even brutally realistic by not believing in eternal love.

There are two verbs which can be used for to be, ser and estar. A bit simplified, ser is used for things that last and estar for those that don't. If love would not eventually turn into desamor, we were to say soy enamorado. But love will go to blazes, eventually - hence, one has to say estoy enamorado.

However, it's still better to experience estoy enamorado, than being denied the feeling at all.

tiradero

Toño talks with his boss in Castilian (Spanish), or sometimes he just thinks he is, such as when he has used the Mexican word tiradero when the proper term for mess would have been desorden.

romper

Pedro Almodóvar's new drama Los Abrazos Rotos (Broken Embraces) has the Spanish past participle roto in its title. The infinitive form of this irregular verb is romper (to break).

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I was wondering whether the Mexican drink Rompope has it's roots in this verb, since you have to break eggs to make it. But according to Wikipedia, the term Rompope is derived from the beverage rum (read about).

pendejo

Actually a single pubic hair, however, consider it something worse, if a Mexican refers to you as pendejo.

I serendipitously came across this word watching The Daily Show.

mañas

I serendipitously came across this word on Incomprendido Social's blog Open your Mind in the post Homofóbia:

Prima: oie adrian! no sabía que tenías esas mañas!
Yo: cuales mañas?
Prima: esas que vi en tu facebook, de que andabas con un hombre :S
Yo: ashh, eso que?

Noun
maña f. (plural mañas)
1. Skill or ability
2. bad habit, mania