Globo

[DailyWord]

This is a discussion thread for the Daily Spanish Word (http://daily.tomisimo.org/) for May 6, 2008

globo -masculine noun (el), balloon, globe. Look up globo in the dictionary (http://www.tomisimo.org/dictionary/spanish_english/globo)

Los globos son indispensables en las fiestas infantiles. ¡Hay que inflar muchos!
Balloons are indispensable at children's parties. You've got to blow up lots of them!

[Alfonso]

Menudo globo lleva ese: vaya una borrachera.

[Iris]

That's a new one:rolleyes:

[poli]

Menudo globo lleva ese: vaya una borrachera.
Ayúdame traducir esta frase gracias.

[Tomisimo]

Ayúdame traducir esta frase gracias.
Se dice ayúdame a traducir... :)
Menudo globo lleva ese: vaya una borrachera.
I've never heard this before, but I'll take a stab at it.
Wow! That guy sure is drunk, he can't hold his alcohol at all.

[Iris]

Good job, David. I've been asking some Spaniards today and none of them knew what it meant either...Only one of them was able to tell me and she was a friend of Alfonso's... So maybe it's something they say in his "pueblo"...

[Tomisimo]

I found a video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gC0Jy0NRIY) of a party with the caption:Menudo globo llevaba la gente, menos mal que yo no bebí y estaba apto para grabar este video.

[Alfonso]

Great, David, you've got it.

En el video está claro lo que es un globo, y un pedo... Creo que son expresiones algo vulgares, sobre todo la última, que sólo se utilizan en España.

Iris, leave my friends alone... :p
This is for you, Iris: :love:

[Iris]

This is for you, Iris: :love:[/quote]
Ditto. Oops! I think I'm in the wrong thread...

[Elaina]

En México tambien se usa la palabra, aunque vulgar, "pedo" para indicar que la persona está embriagada/borracha.

El vecino estaba bien pedo anoche.
The neighbor was really drunk las night.

or

Me puse una peda bien buena la semana pasada.
I got real drunk last week.

Elaina:cool:

[poli]

This is for you, Iris: :love:
Ditto. Oops! I think I'm in the wrong thread...[/quote]

Oops and pedo make a comical though stinky combo

[Alfonso]

Se me olvidaba: menudo pedal lleva ése. También se usa.

[Iris]

Pero suena super "vasto"....No offense intended;)

[Tomisimo]

Se me olvidaba: menudo pedal lleva ése. También se usa.
Pero suena super "vasto"....No offense intended;)
You both lost me there. :(:confused::eek:

[Iris]

David,
Alfonso offered a new expression to say somebody is drunk and I said I thought it was very rude (vasto).

[Alfonso]

David,
Alfonso offered a new expression to say somebody is drunk and I said I thought it was very rude (vasto).
But I don't think it's very rude. To me, it sounds less rude than ¡Vaya pedo lleva ése!
If you use pedal instead of pedo you're softening the phrase.

[Iris]

Totally disagree. To me is the other way around.We'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

[Alfonso]

So you think pedal is a great pedo?
To me, Spanish pedal is English pedal. That's what I think if I say: ¡Qué gran pedal lleva ese! It doesn't make any sense, but the other way around doesn't make any sense either.

[gatitoverde]

I do hope everyone here understands that to say someone is a pedo in English is a far more serious and disturbing accusation.

[Tomisimo]

David,
Alfonso offered a new expression to say somebody is drunk and I said I thought it was very rude (vasto).
I didn't see your response earlier. Thanks. I now understand perfectly :)