“Miami English” Phrases to Know During Art Week
about 11 months ago (12/06/2023)
“Miami English” Phrases to Know During Art Week Skip to content Still from “Shit Miami Girls Say” by Aimee Carrero, Michelle Sicars, and Giancarlo Sabogal (screenshot via Youtube , courtesy Michelle Sicars ) I grew up speaking Miami English, but I didn’t know it. Generously peppering my speech with “ pero like,” I arrived in Chicago for college blissfully unaware that my version of the language sounded different — that is, until a friend gently interrupted me when I said I had to “get down from the car.” Perhaps somewhere deep in my brain I knew the phrase was “get out of the car,” but because almost everyone around me had always said it otherwise, I never thought of how it might sound to the rest of the world. If your red-eye just got in this morning for Art Week, you might start picking up on the words and expressions that make “Miami English” so special.