Argentine Lunfardo
 

Argentina is a very beautiful country with a beautiful language. When I went to live in Argentina for a couple of years I realized that I really needed to learn the slang or "lunfardo"

I found this website to be very usefull in explaining the lunfardo and it has some great blog posts about lunfardo.

http://cheviste.com

I found some useful words

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Boludo/a
Bondi
Pibe/a
Chabon/a
Tipo/a

Nice.

I would advice using some words with caution.

Boludo, for example, if used by the wrong person to address the wrong person in the wrong context could get tricky very quickly.

Boludo and its use is similar to the term N_igger in the USA. While it may be acceptable for use by African-Americans when speaking among themselves, its not a term that can be used lightly...... its the same as Boludo. I have life-long friends who I can call Boludo, but for someone that you dont know well, it would have to be used with care. For visitors, unless you know who you are talking to and are very comfortable as to what context you are in... I would advise not using the term Boludo... as it can mean anything from "Doode" to "Arsehole" to even worse....

In general, hardly anybody uses lunfardo in daily speech..... so while this can sound intersting to some, it had hardly no practical use and most locals will look at you with a strange smile on their face if a visitor tries to use it.

I agree with Gaucho. I've been living here for three years and this is more quaint than useful on a daily basis. In my experience, it only ever really comes into use with the people I know when too much alcohol has been drunk and/or futbol is involved.

From my cursory view of the list, and cursory knowledge of a handful of lunfardo words, the list is neither complete nor accurate.

Two blaring examples:

Tipo/tipa - not lunfardo
Manyar - missing, yet one of the words I used to hear on my early trips to Argentina wondering "how did the italiano get into the español" (of course, I figured that it was spelled "mangiar" :D

Manyar...??? I think you mean morfar....

My wife...a regular church goer and pillar of society can often be heard shouting "boludo" or "pelotudo" at fellow road users when she's out driving. :eek:

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No airs or graces out here in the sticks you know. :p

To be fair those male drivers deserve to be on the receiving end of her tongue......they think they own the roads. :D

I hear it a lot from taxi drivers - but usually with a slight twist. Boluda! Pelotuda! :eek:

The list is a ongoing project basically so if you have any comments, opinions or corrections please let me know!

So did you find the website or did you help create it?

It is an interesting site and it does help to know some of this if you are younger than 30 because it is used quite often.

Also you will understand the names of some bars and nicknames of people.

I created it myself. It was a project I put together for fun. I lived in Argentina for a couple of years and thought why not put a website up about Lunfardo, but more on the part of slang. I should clarify that it is not all lunfardo but slang also with blog posts about dichos, etc.

Correct... slang would be a more accurate description. Lunfardo is something entirely different.

How could you not include "joder" ? As in "Dejate de joder" or simply "jodete!". As Gaucho says, make sure you use this in the proper context and note that the meaning varies in other Spanish speaking countries.