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I was given an exercise video by Crunch Fitness called Cardio Salsa. In the video the instructor was showing merengue moves and she started to move her arms. She said, "I'm going to call these puta merengue arms.." I was under the impression that puta meant whore. I checked online in various spanish-english dictionaries I found 30 definitions for this word some which were way worse than whore. Any thoughts?
Would it be be possible that she said "pura merengue arms"? I have never heard "puta" used in anything but a derogatory sense, but then I'm a gringo and only have been speaking Spanish for 7 years.
AH LINGÜISTICS!!
What you heard and what she said are two different things! Caused by your ear and her tongue!!
What happened is this:
The Spanish "r" is properly pronounced like the English "T"!! They have basically the same "point of pronounciation" --the alveolar ridge in back of your top teeth...
This is what causes Gringos to say Bull (toro) when they are trying to say All (todo)--the English "T" & "D" is pronounced just where the Spanish "R" is pronounced....and that is where your confusion comes from.
Have a native Spanish speaker listen to the tape and see if she/he hears it the way you do...
In Spain, 'puta' can be used in a crude was to mean something good - 'de puta madre' means it's as good as it gets. Like 'the dog's bollocks' in English.
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words on an exercise video
