Ok, another funny language learning story. This week in class, studying vocabulary, the word "juegos" came up. Juegos primarily means "games." Well, I recalled seeing a sign in our neighborhood outside an interior decorator's shop that said, among other things, "Juegos de bano."
So I asked our teacher, his name is Oscar, "Well, I saw this sign ya see, and it said juegos de bano, so are we talking about "bathroom games?" Oscar started laughing, as did everyone else in class when Oscar told us that when juegos is used in this manner it refers to a "set" of something, so you can have "bathroom sets", you can also have "juegos de cama"—a la cama is a bed and no it does not mean "bed games", but a set of sheets for the bed.
So no, bathroom games and bed games are not weird cultural pastimes of Costa Rica.
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After studying Spanish for the last 12 years, I must say that I still didn't know that! Maybe it's particular to Costa Rica? Although it seems like I might have seen something like that around here too. Interesting.
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