What about 'wiriador'?

Question

What might 'wiriador' mean in this sentence?

"Mi habilidad como trabajador es wiriador y cortar es mi pasa tiempo favorito."

I've tried wiridor and wirador and a few others and none of it will translate.

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Just an update to my question: Wiriador means weed eating! I think it might be some sort of slang wording for weed eating among Hispanic landscapers. But that is what was meant by the word. Thank you all for your help!

Nice! This is a classic example of how Spanglish eventually becomes a language in its own right, much like the various Creoles. Weed-eater becomes "wirider", therefore if you operate one of these machines, you are "un wiriador". - Gekkosan, Nov 4, 2010

If you lay carpet, then you are "carpetero", if you seal roofs, you're "rufero", and if you lay shingles, your're "chinglero". To most Spanish speakers these all sound horrible, but for those who live in mixed language environments, it makes perfect sense - Gekkosan, Nov 4, 2010

Answer 2

so, in the end, weed-eater (widriador) would be cortapastos.

Answer 3

¡Hola!, SaraSmiles:

 

Have you made any sense or discerned any meaning out of the rest of the sentence. As I understand it, it would go like this:

"Mi habilidad como trabajador es wiriador y cortar es mi pasa tiempo favorito."

If I were to try to translate this I would also have trouble with "pasa space tiempo" which I suspect ought to be "pasatiempo". Then the translation, for me, would be:
"Mi ability/skill as worker is (unknown adjective) and my favourite pastime/hobby is to cut"
If communication can be described as transferring meaning from one mind into another mind, there needs to be understanding of the message for a communication to be completed. In this sentence, I do not understand the message and suggest the whole communication has failed.

Was this a written communication? Was this an oral communication? If it was written, was it part of a larger written communication and can meaning be inferred from the rest of the message? If it was an oral communication, are you sure you heard and transcribed it correctly? Was the sender of the message someone whose mother tongue was Spanish, or, like me, a learner of Spanish. If not a native, it's possible the message sender made mistakes in the words used.

Nizhoni has suggested you verify the message at its source. I suggest that is a very good idea. It looks to me that you have been sent some gobbeldygook gibberish.

 

Muchos saludos/Best regards,

Moe

excellent! - mediterrunio, Nov 4, 2010

Answer 4

I know what he is talking about in the rest of it. It is an answer to a question on a survey that all of our employees had to fill out. Some of the guys speak very little English. So I asked the questions in Spanish (all written). They responded in Spanish. I was wanting to just translate all of the replies so I wouldn't have to take more of their time. But it looks like for this word (something meaning what he thinks is his best skill as a worker) I am going to have to just ask him. But thank you for your input.

Answer 5

I tried vidriador and it doesn't translate. I also tried viriador. It won't translate either. :(

Vidriador is not a real word, but it means vidriero=glazier. - lorenzo9, Nov 3, 2010

Oh. Ok. Thanks. - sarasmiles84, Nov 3, 2010

Answer 6

Nizhoni1-It's all work related so I was hoping to just translate the answers without having to ask the guys. Thank you oh so much for your wonderful suggestion though.

Answer 7

If someone is writing these messages to you, I think it is time to ask them what they mean.

Answer 8

vidriador?