Random Things You've Learned from GC

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

Just abbreviations like tldr, etc. I really enjoyed learning about what GCers do for a living. And then, I learned a lot from John about how the forum works. That was really interesting.

Originally Posted by bevinpiphi

Well they “totally made up” a term one letter off from calling someone out of their mind, zumbado.

I’ll add the meaning of this word to the other things I’ve learned on GC.

[carnation]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

I’ll add the meaning of this word to the other things I’ve learned on GC.

I never put what the word meant!

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by carnation

I never put what the word meant!

Correct. You didn’t, but bevinpiphi did — the reason I quoted her post with the correct spelling in it, and not yours.

[carnation]

I am a Spanish professor and teacher, and I know what zumbado means--it's the past participle of zumbar and you would used it like this: "la abeja ha zumbado", the bee has buzzed.

Zumbedo, one of my brothers' made up words. is pronunced "ZOOMbeedoe" and since we weren't allowed to insult people, they used it as one of their insults and my mother wouldn't understand. That one was used to describe people they didn't even have words for because they were so disgusted or mad.

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by carnation

I am a Spanish professor and teacher, and I know what zumbado means--it's the past participle of zumbar and you would used it like this: "la abeja ha zumbado", the bee has buzzed.

Zumbedo, one of my brothers' made up words. is pronunced "ZOOMbeedoe" and since we weren't allowed to insult people, they used it as one of their insults and my mother wouldn't understand. That one was used to describe people they didn't even have words for because they were so disgusted or mad.

lol
I see now. I had two years Spanish in high school and two years in undergrad. But, I don’t remember any of it — maybe like a few words that stood out to me back then. Some of my customers are Spanish speaking customers and speak very little English. Thank God we have phone translator apps now. Because of that, being able to speak it as a second language would be very helpful in my profession.

Kind of a different topic, but your post here is also why I enjoyed learning what GCers did/do for a living. I knew you were a professor but I didn’t know you teach Spanish.