"Carajo"

Mood: amused.
Feeling like: eating a chocolate cake! Yum!

Undoubtedly, a journey is always enlightening; and a journey through internet is no exception. Everyday, one learns something and today, I learnt something funny about the origin of a 'bad word' in Spanish: carajo.

According to good ol' wikipedia, that word comes from latin word carassus (an alternate name for... well, the pennis). This word, with time, became the name of the biggest mast in a ship (talk aboutmetaphors, huh?), and then, eventually, was also the name of the basket thingy that's around that mast.

One of the less cruel punishments for sailors was to tell them "¡Vete al carajo!", meaning: "go to the basket around the big mast", where they'd be left for hours, until the were veeeery dizzy.

So that's why saying "Vete al carajo" is a baaaaaad thing, my dear kids. lol! I just thought it was a fun fact sort of thing... =)

I'm off...

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