Spoken Dominican Spanish

Not knowing anything about baseball, sioreto lost me

poloch? is derived from polo shirt, but is used to describe t-shirt.
Polo shirts have collars, tee shirts do not.

Tee shirts are supposedly related to golf, but golfers almost always wear shirts with collars.

Polo somehow has achieved tons of recognition because of the clothes of its players, but polo is a very seldom watched sport.
More people watch cricket, lacrosse and even field hockey, but no one refers to apparel worn for those sports.

FYI
None of these can be translated by any online translator. :laugh:

Dominican Baseball Language

Africaida said:

Not knowing anything about baseball, sioreto lost me

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Same here.
When I googled it, this came up:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...cf3R5Sr2Oo0aMtIgQ&sig2=pZpYTmSSX99oJbNjHQdpJw

Maybe interesting for baseball lovers...
{For me as a European, baseball is ever so boring...}

donP

Maybe interesting for baseball lovers...
{For me as a European, baseball is ever so boring...}

donP[/QUOTE]

When you really need a thrill, watch cricket.

Lucifer said:

Sioret? = short-stop

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i still don't know what the hell it means.

The short stop is a position in baseball. There are nine men on a team, and the short stop is one of them.
If you require an explanation, you can easily find it with a google.

Short stop in standard Spanish is:

el campocorto- most commonly used (in my experience) or you will also hear el torpedero, it just depends on the country. I find Venezuelan baseball terminology quite different from Dominican baseball terminology but all researchable words.


-MP.

No more eye-rolling from the Europeans. You're not allowed to talk about baseball. I never talk about football. And I am respectful enough not to call it soccer. So just don't talk about it, because you will never understand.

Go Sox.

Lucifer said:

Fulano: "?T?guere, t? be ese pariguayo con el poloch? belde?"

Mengano: "?El ke ta al lao del guachim?n?"

Fulano: "S?, ese mimito. Bueno, as? como t? lo be, ese tipo tiene cualto."

Mengano: "?De beld??"

Fulano: "Pue claro. Su pap? era pelotero en grande liga."

Mengano: "Oye a ete. ?y e' f?cil?! Ese pariguayo no tiene ni en qu? case muelto."

Fulano: "Ah! ?T? no me cree? Bamo apot?. D?jame llam? al guachim?n."

Mengano: "Apueto a que no."

Fulano: "Comando, h?game un fabol. ?Ut? conoce a ese hombre del poloch? belde?"

Guachim?n: "?El que taba hablando conmigo?"

Fulano: "S?, ese mimo. ?Beld? que su pap? era pelotero en grande liga?"

Guachim?n: "Pue claro. Su pap? era sioret? de lo Yanki."

Mengano: "?SIORET? DE LO YANKI?! ?Y E' F?CIL?!"

Fulano: "Pa' que lo sepa."

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That's actually pretty decent grammar compared to the majority of Wassap posts I've seen.

Lucifer said:

Yeah, but I should've tittled it 'Spoken Dominican Spanish,' as we normally pronounce certain words. And while XO has said that it's accepted to pronounce 'V' as 'B', I may disagree. Once I learned that you can't make the same mistake in English, I've been pronouncing 'V' in Spanish, and I even notice it when others don't.

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I fixed the title for you as per your post.



Cheers,

-MP.

Been here too long. Only sioreto was abracadabra to me. Just like flayalcachu used to be.

AlterEgo said:

I asked Mr. AE how to say short-stop in Spanish, and he said "short-stop" [with a Spanish accent]. LOL. He never heard any of the other words mentioned here.

Maybe he's been in the US too long.

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My parents are like that as well. It's just that him and them grew up during "El perinclito de San Cristobal"'s era, when a butchering of the language like that was corrected by a belt hit to the mouth (correazo), as an opening course of what was to follow if one continued to persist being a "boca sucia".

Naked_Snake said:

My parents are like that as well. It's just that him and them grew up during "El perinclito de San Cristobal"'s era, when a butchering of the language like that was corrected by a belt hit to the mouth (correazo), as an opening course of what was to follow if one continued to persist being a "boca sucia".

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Ah yes, amazing how times change!

Now butchering the language of Cervantes is more likely to elicit a Dios me lo bendiga, especially if its a kid in one of those ages when their brains as like sponges, absorbing everything.

AlterEgo said:

I asked Mr. AE how to say short-stop in Spanish, and he said "short-stop" [with a Spanish accent]. LOL. He never heard any of the other words mentioned here.

Maybe he's been in the US too long.

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Actually, I think it has to do with the fact that the greatest professional baseball league is the MLB played in the USA. There are many foreign born players, the majority from Latin America and predominantly the DR, Venezuela and Cuba (as well a few other Latin countries but the number is small in comparison to the three countries mentioned). Once again you see the integration of culture and language in this dynamic.

A large number of baseball terminology in Spanish is English words or phonetically adapted words in Spanish deriving from English. Not only do you hear the usage when listening to televised games but also in the newspapers in the Sports section. The influence of English in baseball in Latin America is significant and inevitable.

Short stop is one of many English words used in Spanish in baseball. I tend to use the correct word out of preference or the phonetically adapted word if I don't know any other one. In standard Spanish, baseball terminology is vast but the question is who uses these words and it depends on where you play. In the USA and parts of Latin America, the English words will be understood however, don't be surprised if in other lands people who hear them (and they may be familiar with baseball in general) draw a blank simply because they are not Spanish words. The same phenomenon happens in soccer or football (European). There are plenty of English words used in Spanish.

Compare:

Un hit- un sencillo (correct Spanish word)

Un picher- un lanzador (correct Spanish word) or Venezuelan specific el serpentinero which means el lanzador.

Un jonr?n- a phonetically adapted word for home run in Spanish used commonly but there are many Spanish words for example el vuelacercas


-MP.