• BOMBS@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    yeah, but mosca is femenine while mosquito is masculine. a small mosca would be a mosquita. a large mosquito would be a mosco. an even larger mosco would a moscon. and even even larger moscon would be a mosconaso.

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      2 years ago

      But it’s only the female mosquito which is bothersome. We should probably have called them mosquita.

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      2 years ago

      Well, now i know what mutant my rpg party will be fighting. “el mosconaso the destroyer of swamps”

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        2 years ago

        If someone told me there was a mosconaso outside, I’d seriously be concerned 😱 😆

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        2 years ago

        Even weirder: the main informal terms for genitals are not congruent with the genital sex.

        • Pinga is feminine
        • Bollo is masculine
        • Papaya is delicious