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30 Jan 2016, 11:03 am

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30 Jan 2016, 11:36 am

Spiderpig: My apologies. I honestly thought it was quesa (like quesadilla). My Spanish is very rudimentary. Let's see if I can get it right this time...

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30 Jan 2016, 3:30 pm

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30 Jan 2016, 3:59 pm

洗衣机 xǐyījī (washing machine)

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31 Jan 2016, 3:32 pm

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31 Jan 2016, 5:37 pm

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TheAP wrote:

Spiderpig: My apologies. I honestly thought it was quesa (like quesadilla). My Spanish is very rudimentary.

No problem. Quesadilla is, at least, morphologically, a diminutive of quesada, which is feminine because all nouns built with the suffix -ada are, like mariscada (from marisco, 'shellfish', masculine), sardinada (from sardina, 'sardine', feminine) or inocentada (from inocente, 'innocent', an adjective with the same form for both genders).

This suffix is also used colloquially to refer to actions characteristic of a particular person, often annoying ones. An example I'm quite fond of is bilgueitada, because it's hard to write this nonce word without phonetically respelling the name it comes from according to Spanish orthography. Can you guess the person?

A famous example of this usage is La Sanjurjada.

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31 Jan 2016, 5:53 pm

^Interesting. No, I don't know who bilgueitada is referring to. I tried googling it but got nothing.

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