Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Navajazo

I love how the Spanish language has words for things that English does not. What would take 3 or 4 English words to describe can oftentimes be summed up with one Spanish word.

Example:

Navajazo – a knife wound

Navajera – a female criminal armed with a knife

Navajero – a male criminal armed with a knife

With information such as this I usually like to invent new –ar verbs like navajazar – to stab someone with a knife. It should be a real word.

1 comment:

Gini said...

It would only make sense.