The first time I encountered this odd term was right before Oscar's mother, brother and sister went on a cruise. We needed to take his brother, Esteban, to get a "smoking". I had no idea what this was, until of course, we went and it turned out to be a tuxedo that he was renting for the formal night of the cruise.
Once I figured it out I put it out of my mind for a while...until I got to the "clothing" lesson in my Spanish class. It turns out that tuxedo is "esmoquin" in Spanish. HA!
...and the world makes sense once again.
this is hysterical! I think there are also some english words that have been slaughtered from their spanish version
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