ALl of the guys I work with are from Central America, mainly Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.
They all use this phrase all the time and us gringas can't understand it.
They wrote it down once, but none of them went to school so I'm not even sure if they're spelling it right, but they wrote it like this
"Papa desime".
They yell it out all the time, and laugh when they say it, and hte pronnounce it like "PApa deh-see-may."
What on earth does this mean?
2007-10-15 03:58:38 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
It's like "Dad, tell me!"
Looks like that slang came from some kind of story they know about. Also, the way they pronounce "desime" sound like the Argentinean accent so it's maybe a joke about a guy / girl from Argentina.
2007-10-15 04:40:26 · answer #1 · answered by Juan C 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Inesmom and Juan C are right. It is "Dad, tell me" or "Dad please tell me".
"desime" sounds from Argentina, and it is not slang, there must be an internal joke where the phrase it is used.
2007-10-15 12:23:04 · answer #2 · answered by Darth Eugene Vader 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't feel bad. We Cubans cannot understand it either.
Don't say that it is Spanish.
Let's say that it is a centroamericanism or regionalism. It is a better description
2007-10-15 05:13:04 · answer #3 · answered by Der Schreckliche 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technically, "little mama" is "mamita". Spanish has three levels, regular, small, and tiny, with "-ita" suffices, i.e. mama, mamita, mamacita. The colloquial (i.e. connotation) basically means "sweet mama", very pretty and young.
2016-05-22 18:01:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Daddy tell me" that´s the meaning of "Papá decime"
no more than that...
2007-10-15 04:08:25 · answer #5 · answered by inesmon 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋