- Jesús Chaíréz
Yesterday, the Mexico City legislature passed a bill giving same-sex couples there the legal right to marry, and allowing same-sex couples to adopt.
Today, I contacted — via Facebook — my friend Jesús Chaîréz, who used to live here in Dallas but moved to Mexico City last year after he retired.
“So,” I asked him, “What’s the mood like there in Mexico City? What do you think, personally, about this new law legalizing same-sex marriage?”
He sent me back an answer, which you can read on page one of our Christmas Day issue, in print and on the Web, and so I sent a reply thanking him for his help, and wishing him “feliz Navidad and prospero ano.” For you non-Spanish speakers, that’s “Merry Christmas and a prosperous new year.” Or so I thought.
That’s about the extent of my Spanish, and as it turns out, I got it wrong, as Jesús pointed out in a giggly Facebook e-mail. It seems that I inadvertently wished him a Merry Christmas and a prosperous a**hole.
See, I forgot the ñ, and that makes all the difference. As Jesús wrote: “One does need the ñ in año. Because año = year and ano = A.hole!!!”
So Jesús, please forgive my mistake, and to all my friends out there, feliz Navidad and prospero año!
What a fabulous couch.
Thanks: I have a matching chair too. Tammye thanks for the post. Latino friends always get a little giggle from our gringo friends. All in fun. But now we know 🙂
I don’t see anything wrong with wishing someone a prosperous “ano”. For some of my friends, it would be a great christmas wish 😀