Oh, for God's sake, look at my name. It'd be weirder if I DIDN'T toss in Spanish in there every once in a while. I do have a particular habit, though. Whenever I hurt myself (which is often), I tend to first yell out in English, then mutter to myself in Spanish. Dunno why, but I always noticed that. And of course, I'll converse with family entirely in Spanish, except for my little brother. With us it's mostly English, although I'll still use Spanish without a second thought.

This troper reasons that learning Spanish in school gives her the authority to break into random fits of Spanish words and have people think she's saying something.

... And people will think you're cussing them out. This troper enjoys looking at people and saying things like "¡Sacapunta! ¡Hay un pescado enfrente de tú pais!" (Pencil sharpener! There is a fish across from your country!) And watching people angrily demand to know what he just called their mother.

This troper knows a Mexican woman who, although she speaks English perfectly, counts to herself in Spanish.

This troper read an article that stated that no matter how fluent you are in a language, you always revert back to your native language when doing math. So yeah. Not exactly gratuitous.

Counting, at least for the first few dozen integers, is generally drilled into schoolchildren as a rote skill. They therefore have memorized it exactly the way they learned it - including the langauge it was learned in.

I've heard that the Germans in WWII actually weeded out spies by making them do long division and read it aloud in German. If German was not their first language, this proved to be painfully difficult. Agreed that math is one of the few things that you need your native language for.

...or was it the French/Dutch/English weeding out GERMAN spies this way? Oh, I can't remember. Some army did this to weed out spies in WWII, que es todo lo que sé... creo que

This troper is native in English - except for the word "Ontario," exclamations of pain, which are still Spanish curses, and whenever he thinks to himself. This has increased since starting college in the United States.

What does Ontario mean? It's a Canadian province.

This spanish speaking troper will occasionally cuss rather loudly in Spanish, should the situation, such as a stubbed toe warrant it. He also randomly tosses out a Spanish word to mess with people's heads.

This troper, has turned ''into'' this trope around her nephew and, to a lesser extent, her mother, in an attempt to teach them some language tidbits. Her nephew knows simple commands in Spanish now (Abre la puerta, apaga la luz), which are given ''always'' in Spanish, never English, and is also starting to pick up a little American Sign Language... next on the list is Japanese.

This troper is so very Anglo it's ''painful,'' but after her best friend started throwing GratuitousGerman into his speech after taking German classes, she retalliated by throwing in Spanish from her own classes. She now counts to herself in Spanish usually, and responds to unfortunate things with a "No me gusta" or an anguished ''"¡No quiero!"''

You're not alone! This troper does the "No me gusta" thing as well.

This english-speaking troper is learning three languages, and sprinkles conversations with gratuitous phrases in all three, to the point where her mother and some of her friends that are learning other languages know what she means when she uses them.

This Southern Californian troper doesn't usually partake in this trope, but ''everybody else at his'' (almost entirely English-speaking) ''high school'' did. Except his sister, who uses Gratuitous French.

This troper is learning latin, french, mandarin and occasionally arabic. He also makes conlangs and sprinkles his speech with phrases from all of them. It's fun.

One of this troper's friends (who took Spanish in high school) is very fond of this. She says things like "No quiero...that thing-o." ...yeah.

I now flip between (okay-ish) French, (horrible) German and (spiffy) English on a whim. I can't swear in French or English or German at school, however, because my French teacher knows all of them plus five other languages. I also occasionally call people 'estupido', but that's it.

This troper will curse in Spanish when doing it in English isn't an option due to setting.

No one in this troper's family is of Hispanic descent. So you can imagine this troper's surprise when she heard her dad swearing in Spanish during some very rough traffic...

When this troper and a group of friends tried to go to Haagen Dazs, only to find that it has just closed, one of them began yelling "Por que?" Now this troper often does this, as well as "Que?"

Well, if you yell it in frustration, it ''is'' legitimate Spanish.

This troper works at [=McDonald's=], which can be quite the Mind Screw at times....so she once asked a Spanish-speaking customer "if [they] wanted their meal large-o."

Grande. Grande.

It goes both ways: ThisTroper's native language is Spanish and he curses in English (British or intentionally mispronounced) and French.

This English-speaking troper has the daily mantra of ''"¿Dónde están mis zapatos??"''

This Troper occationally curses in various languages that are not his native (Finnish), back when working at a kindergarden, this was a pretty good policy (still avoiding english or swedish curses. Scheisse and Donnerwetter were a-ok)

This troper's highschool might as well make all signs bilingual despite the fact we live in OHIO. It's normal to hear some of the higher level spanish students holding conversations in spanish just to piss people off. The Marching Band (a large grouping of language students and general Cloudcuckoolanders) could make loudly shouting "Por Que?" the unofficial slogan. As for me, I like to visit the spanish 1 classes when I have a free moment just to see the puzzled look on freshmen's faces when I speak with the teacher in spanish.

Having learned both Spanish and English are almost the same rate, This Troper (chilean, btw) speaks in spanglish to varying degrees, depending on context. My curses, particularly, tend to be strings of swears in both. Very useful when you can't remember a word, too. Also, when our class did a trip to the US, we were ''overjoyed'' at the freedom of speech it gave us. Since basically nobody understood chilean spanish well enough, it meant we could basically shout (and sing!) ''anything'' (including profanities) to each other with no recrimination. I heard that someone told the teacher to "suck it" to his face....

Oh, so it's true that there's chileans everywhere. Hola, weon(a), como estai? Cachai que igual debe ser harto dificil pa' la gente entender un español tan cantadito y tan flojo como el chileno, lo que he de decir que es la raja. My sister once went to USA and said profanities at her heart's content. She and her friends even started faking a fight and shouting, enjoying the faces of the people who came to ask what happened in lame spanish. 'Que es pasando?', 'hay problema?' and 'puedo ayudo?' ensued.

La jeringa (jerga) chilena es bien dificil de entender para el que no este familiarizado con la misma, inclusive para otra persona que habla español neutro, algo parecido pasa con la jerga argentina y la jerga peruana.

Admittedly only semi-related, but This Troper speaks fluent English, except when she swears, when it's as likely to be Arabic, Chinese, Malay or Tagalog that comes out of her mouth. She had a...shall we say interesting childhood.

This troper's sister is enough of an anime fan that she's actually bothering to teach herself ''proper'' Japanese - and she's taking German classes. This troper, meanwhile, is enough of a TomStoppard fan that he occasionally lapses into Dogg.

Just to mess with peoples' heads, this troper counts by alternating languages at random between English, Japanese, Spanish and French: One, Ni, Tres, Quatre...

This troper is an inversion: Despite being a native Spanish speaker, he often swears or talks to himself in English.

This troper curses in English too, mainly because he can do it without other people being offended.

This Spanish speaker troper can top that: I swear as much as you probably do...in Yinglish... Yiddish as a third language, anyone?...

Oh yes -- This troper loves messing with her (also Spanish) friends' heads. She'll start muttering in English about how obnoxious they are or how much she hates this thing they do, only for them to ask what she just said. She'll almost always answer with "Oh, nothing." In English.

This troper too thinks in english (sometimes), but only swear in english with the {{ClusterFBomb}}, just sometimes

This troper frequently, instead of saying "what?", will use "que?" (among other tiny bits of Spanish-- give him a break, he's only in Spanish I). In writing, this isn't a problem. In speaking, however, it comes across as "... 'kay.", meaning that anything he's inquiring about wind up being cut short.

I think a better pronounciation of que is 'keh', sounds like meh.

This English speaking troper has occasionally used Spanish grammatical patterns and expressions while speaking Mandarin, as in "wo a las si dian ban me shuijiao" (translation from Spandarin: I go to bed at four-thirty).

This troper occasionally swears in Spanish and uses "Qué?" instead of "What?" (it's actually shorter than it's Hungarian non-rude equivalent). Some other Spanish words also occur accidentally in his speech, but they are usually unnoticed.

About a year ago in this troper's high school throwing random bits of Spanish into normal sentences became quite the fad. 9 times out of 10 it was absolutely terrible, pronunciation was mangled, words made no sense, and people would occasionally just make words up (often adding an "o" to end of English words). Oddly I was one of the few people genuinely annoyed by this "Spanglish" fad. Everyone else saw nothing wrong with it, thought it was a riot, or didn't care.

One can determine just how angry this troper is by what language she's swearing in. If it's English, she'll get over it pretty quickly, if it's Spanish, then it'll take awhile longer, and if it's Italian, you're screwed.

Me too. If swear in French it's ok, Portuguese is more serious, Spanish is war.

This troper and his best friend once spent Halloween as Pancho Villa and Zapata. We had enthused conversations consiting entirely of. "Viva Mejico!" "Tierra e Liberdad!", "Porfirista", and, of course, "Amigo."

This troper automatically translates subtitles (badly) in his head into Spanish. It gets very distracting because ''it won't stop.'' Also speaks in better Spanish at inappropriate times to annoy family and friends.

This troper, despite English being his first and preferred language, has had dreams entirely in Spanish. It's very annoying.

This Spanish troper has had whole dreams in English, and she didn't actually realize it until she woke up.

This troper, who is very Anglo but is currently learning Spanish, tends to pepper her vernacular with Spanish words and grammar, usually without meaning to. For instance, she often says que and como and whatnot instead of who, what, when, where, why, and how. When eating, she'll say things under her breath like "Muy picante..." Not to mention, for emphasis she sometimes writes sentences with the upside down question mark or exclamation point. She has no clue why this happens...

This troper managed to pull off GratuitousGerman, GratuitousSpanish and GratuitousJapanese all at once by calling a very happy toddler wearing a T-shirt that featured Miffy & "Hello Kitty" holding hands: "Muy Sehr Kawaii!!!"

This Spanish troper thinks she speaks pretty decent English for someone who has only been to an actual English-speaking country for seven days, and also some stunted French, but is still known to unconsciously revert to Spanish in the middle of conversation in both of these languages. Which is doubly pathetic since her normal speech is full of crazy mutated Spanglish. When she can't make out what you said, she'll ask "''qué?''". When you really surprise her she'll exclaim "''WHAT??''". It's somewhat useful, as cursing in mangled English helps her disguise the fact that she's a walking ClusterFBomb.

This troper grew up in a family of many languages (Quebecois and Metropolitan French, Greek, Latin American Spanish, Yiddish and Catalan), yet never learned any of them fluently (except English, obviously). So why is it that when humming a tune and I decide to set lyrics to it, I gravitate towards Catalan? I'm not complaining, now that I'm the lyricist for my band, it gets me plenty of tail, but I find it odd as I know no more of it than I do any other language I grew up with.

Most of this troper's family speaks a bit of Spanish, so Spanish phrases tend to pop up without explanation here and there, and no one bats an eye. Although if it's overdone people (notably the youngest sibling, who hasn't had as much Spanish education just yet) tend to get annoyed.

This troper is Texan so it's not uncommon for him to slip in some Spanish when he needs to. Although considering he barely remembers what he learned in high school and college, well it's a crapshoot sometimes.

This troper's first language is English, but after five years of Spanish classes, she usually resorts to Spanish in some situations. "Oye," "¿Qué pasa?", y "¿Dónde está?" are used daily. Puede pensar en español, también.

This troper takes Spanish classes. So far, the only use she's found for it is calling various animals her 'fuzzy amigos'. She has no idea why.

Tropers/RedWren has found that people who will ignore her if she says, "Excuse me," listen when she says, "Perdòneme." This ensued.

This Troper mainly does this to mess with people, porque cuando sus padres entender espanol, su hermana no entiende una palabra. And he'll sometimes lapse for some unexplained reason... like he just did. Its pointless fun!

This troper used this in the middle of his Japanese class when he couldn't remember certain words, even though he barely speaks Spanish and primarily speaks English. At one point, his teacher, a kind, middle-aged Japanese woman, asked him what the Japanese term for "lawyer" was. He could only respond, "...Abogado?" The whole class was taken aback.

I call my mother "madre", despite the fact that I don't speak Spanish at all.

This lurker's father used to speak basic Spanish to his wife when he didn't want his daughters to understand him. His wife had never taken Spanish, but she still remembered some French from high school, so they could have a very limited conversation in two languages and understand each other. Then the daughters started Spanish. After a few years, the mother decided she would have to learn it, since she didn't like the idea of three teenage girls speaking a language she didn't understand too well...

This Troper, for whatever reason, doesn't say "What", much anymore. It's either "Que?" if I'm talking or "iQue?" if I'm typing it. The reason for the "i", I think is the emulator...

This troper learned certain bits of Spanish as child, in self-defense -- when informed by somebody that they'd actually spent several years in this troper's hometown without getting a chance to speak with a native Spanish-speaker...the first thought was "'''How!?''' Did you run away from anybody who ''looked'' Hispanic?!" (Some parts of town would have to be outright avoided, because of the many store signs in Spanish.)

This troper has a close acquaintance who loves him some PoirotSpeak - albeit he's also a LargeHam and a HandsomeLech (yes, that's relevant). His language insertion of choice, however, is Gratuitous Russian, followed by this, followed by GratuitousFrench. And he pulls it off, or at least he doesn't sound irritating in the slightest.

@/TheTallOne and her brother are both fluent in Spanish, and frequently lapse into it, just for the hell of it.

This troper is quite fond of the exclamation "Madre de Dios!" I also know a few Spanish insults that I mutter under my breath sometimes when people piss me off.

This troper and many of his (mostly white) high-school friends took to shouting "Tengo hambre!" loudly and randomly during our Jr. and Sr. years. Drove the teachers we had in common nuts.

This troper likes going "...Que?" when somebody befuddles him. Usually because it then befuddles THEM,granting me time to recover from my initial befuddlement.

Years of watching subbed telenovelas have left this troper with a tendency to shout "¡Mentiroso!" instead of "Liar!", not to mention the gratuitous use of "te quiero," "cómo se dice," or an anguished "por favor."

I had a friend (well, not really a friend, more like an annoying dude who always seemed to be around) who, after 1 year of junior high spanish class, believed he could speak perfect spanish and would try to confuse me by saying things in it. He stopped when I told him I could actually understand some of what he was saying (I can't speak spanish, but I know the very basics and some of the curses/insults).

This troper lapses into it from time to time as a means of keeping it fresh in his head. And as a means of insulting/confusing people by trashing them in three or four languages simultaneously with the added help of Japanese and French.

Alpha}} This troper, beyond the usual substitute curses and exclamations, will sometimes converse with his mother in Spanish, usually to exchange potentially offensive remarks within earshot of someone, ¿''sabes''?

Spanish was my major in college, and I reached the point where I would slip into my second language without realizing it. One example happened while I was picking up pizza with my girlfriend, and I asked her to open the door for me because I was holding the pizza. She glared at me, took the pizza out of my hands and went out the door herself. I had no idea that I had actually just said ''"abre la puerta, por favor."''

One of this troper's friends, even when talking online.

This troper is known for inserting bits of gratuitous ''Esperanto'', for example cursing ''"Damne!"'' . It even has permeated the relationship with his girlfriend; he calls her ''karulino'' ("dear (female) one") and she responds with ''mia koreto'' ("my little heart"). Yes, we both are very corny. And, I've been thinking about the untappped FetishFuel possibilities: Esperanto also has naughty words...

This troper's whole class has taken Spanish for three years. Most of us do this to some extent. #QUOTE#Friend: *insert gratuitous Spanish here*\\ Troper: *waits for translation*

This troper curses in English despite the fact that Spanish is my native tongue; I feel Spanish curses are so harsh and crude. However, I speak in a mix of Spanglish when talking to my brother (and my sister, now that she speaks more English due to having a Taiwanese husband.) When talking to friends in English, I throw in Spanish phrases, words, and exclamations such as, "¡Uquela!" and "tacuache" (instead of "possum".)

Also, this troper frequently does this with her best friend when we a situation warrants a "what?" Her: "What?" Me: "¿Qué?" Her: "Nani?

This troper hasn't taken Spanish in over seven years, but still uses random Spanish words and phrases ("Yo tengo...) along with his Gratuitous German and a smattering of French and Latin just for kicks.

This mexican troper inverts it. When I'm alone, I talk to myself in English, and in my school, it's common to use english curse words, that unfortunately, are recognized by our teachers. Currently, the only languages to safely curse are Japanese, Korean and Klingon.

This troper is currently in the habit of saying "¿que?" when she can't think of anything else, in more of a FlatWhat way. It'll pass.

This troper does this at times when I'm trying to make a point to family/friends who speak Spanish.

If I were to stub my toe or something else equivalent to that, "Dios mio!" comes out. If someone cuts me off in traffic? "Pinche cabron!" I've also been known to say "Me duele la cabeza," "Pansa llena, corazon contento," and other little tidbits of Spanish in a continued effort to master the language enough to my first generation American-born, Mexican-American mother's liking. We also have an in-joke involving spotting ostentatiously "Mexican" people and saying, "Mexico, ven por tu gente!" (nb: Diacritical marks are absent because I was never good with that in my Spanish classes.)

This troper native languages are Spanish and Galician and speaks English, and everyone knows that I can switch at any moment to Galician (even if I'm speaking with someone that doesn't understand Galician).

Eres malvado/a ¿Sabes lo horrible que es hablar con alguien a quien no entiendes? Especialmente en gallego...Diaaablos.

Evil? Not really, I just grew up with both languages. If I start to speak in Galician, most sure is that I didn't even noticed that I switched languages (I know, I'm weird).

I'm going to tell you something. Ti non es o único ao que lle pasa. A algunos nos pasa de cambiar de castellano a gallego, o colar palabras en Koruño. BTW, I thought I was the only troper from Galicia.

Koruño? I'm from Ferrol, and I'm also guilty guilty of using "Ferrolano".

This troper and her roommate both studied four years of Spanish in high school, but only the roommate pursued a minor in it in college. In order to help her practice and keep up, I've resorted to mixing Spanish into my everyday lexicon. It doesn't help that, in high school, our class was infamous for speaking Spanglish more than either English or Spanish. My family actually picked up some Spanish because of how often I used to use it around home.

Does it count if you live in Venezuela?

I don't think so, or else I would fit in here too...

I saw a very pitiful and brief scene with a few girls in a locker room... #QUOTE#'''Girl 1:''' Ooh! Me gusta...your...zapatos. (<-all pronounced horribly wrong)\\ '''Girl 2:''' Huh? What's that mean again?\\ '''Girl 3:''' It's me gusta tus zapatos. She's saying she likes your shoes.\\ '''Girl 2:''' Oh, I thought zapatos meant pants.

After attending a summer camp in Spain this troper cannot stop herself from babbling random Spanish words to her predominantly English-speaking friends and family. And it's not just Spanish. This phenomenon has spread to the occasional Gratituous Sindarin (she's a LOTR lover), as well as smidgens of many other languages (most not studied by this troper.) \\ Additionally, she has had the odd privilege of being able to carry on a conversation with words from several different languages thrown in, the majority of them from languages not studied by her (and sometimes her fellow conversation-maker,) without any confusion. She and her fellow classmates consider it a twisted "perk" of being international school students.

I am fond of this. I am also fond of the fact that I do not plan to ever learn Spanish. I also love how people know it's a word salad and look at me like I'm crazy. Whenever people start speaking Spanish, I feel the need to interject with "No comprende por favor. Como estas? POR QUE?!" (I'm sure this is full of spelling errors. Like I said, no knowledge of the Spanish language.)

This troper occasionally replies to his mother in Spanish, for no real reason. She doesn't speak the language. #QUOTE# '''Mother''': Can you come down for a second? #QUOTE#'''Me''': Claro que sí, ¿que quieres? #QUOTE#'''Mother''': What? #QUOTE#'''Me''': I'm coming!

When this troper was tutoring at an elementary school (with seven- to eleven-year-olds, more or less) he overheard some older student accusing another student (who was Hispanic) for saying something like "Don't touch my culo." (I don't know whether or not he said that)

When we learned the imperfect tense in Spanish class, a classmate would say something like "Hablababa" because of the regular ending for "hablar." Ditto for accent marks, as we slapped our hands on the table each time we heard/seen one.

This troper and a friend can both speak Spanish, and we tend to use it more than English, especially when gossiping/discussing schemes in front of an audience. Teachers hate it.

My mother is from El Salvador, and though her English is very good, will tend to lapse back into Spanish on certain occasions, usually if she's talking back to my father (Irish American) whenever they're just teasing one another. If he's just bullshitting, her favorite response is "Ah, va a cagar." Literally, it means "go take a shit." What it implies is "You're full of it." As for myself, I toss in the random swear word, and if I'm talking with any other of my friends who are also Latino, we'll tend to throw in random Spanish words and such, usually subconsciously.

In Monster Hunter Tri, since I don't have a keyboard, I try to rely on shoutouts, which are in whatever language you play in (in my case, Spanish), regardless of what language the other players speak.

This troper studies Spanish and Catalan at university, and spent last year living in a Catalan-speaking area of Spain. I often start speaking Spanish without realising, and flit between Spanish and English with my school friends, who don't speak any Spanish, much to their annoyance. I also speak predominantly Spanish with my mother, who has just finished a course in Spanish at GCSE (roughly end of high school level?), which is good for her, and fun for me (I can still cuss her out without her completely understanding). Finally, I speak in Gratuitous Catalan with my Catalan class because there are only five of us, they're my best friends, and Catalan is such a niche language in the UK that we're unlikely to be understood. It's fun.

This troper likes to speak to one of my friends in Spanish so that no one else can understand us. When I'm angry, I yell at people in Spanish and they have no idea what I've said to them. Sometimes, though, I just throw Spanish in to sound cool.

This troper hablas poquito español.

Y se nota.

¡No seas malo!

This troper is Spanish on her mom's side. English is her first language, but since she grew up speaking some Spanish she's fluent in Spanish and English (though her Spanish isn't native-speaker-good, she speaks it just fine). At home, her mother will sometimes speak Spanish (which is also not her mom's first language), to which, depending on her mood, this troper will sometimes answer in Spanish. She and her mother often hold conversations half in Spanish and half in English.

Eso no es el famoso spanglish acaso?

This troper is a native spanish speaker, but likes to curse in Italian.

I used this in a fake advertisement in my {{Homestuck}} ElsewhereFic. {{Lampshaded}} with the line, "Hablamos mal masacrados español a través de traductores en línea![[hottip:*: [We] Speak badly butchered Spanish through online translator!"