Yes, I’m still at my Spanish vocabulary studies… A little over a year since I started and about 3,000 words along, I’m almost through my vocab book. Of twenty chapters, I’m now on Capítulo 19 – El orden público. It covers everything to do with crime, law, police and violence. Lots of fun! Here are a few words I came across in today’s studying:
el delito — sounds like a real “delight”, no? In fact, it’s a crime…
la comisaría — this is where you go when you’ve been bad (or, in Spanish code language, when you’ve done something, er, “delightful”). That’s right, it’s the police station. Brief stopping point on the way to la cárcel.
las esposas — this is by far the funniest bit of vocab I’ve learned in recent weeks. I thought I knew what it meant, because una esposa is a wife. So what else could the plural — “wives” — mean? (Other than trouble, I mean – ha ha.) Well, it’s actually the thing they use to bring you to the comisaría… Not the police car… It’s — get this — HANDCUFFS! Now I’m betting a woman didn’t come up with that usage.