Pronouncing pyn-CHON

Scott Wyant scott_wyant at loop.com
Mon May 19 13:16:22 CDT 1997


Teo Samsel wrote:
>
>That's "pinche". And effing American would be "gringo chingado" or even
>better "chingaso".

Yeah, yeah, and you probably only spell "vato" with a "v," and sneer at
someone who spells it with a "b."  And yeah, "chingado" means "effing," but
so does "pinche!"  No?  And how about the nifty linguistic link?  Eh?

>Ya ese!

Indeed.


Scott Wyant
Antioch University, Southern California





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