{"id":2612,"date":"2010-11-09T14:47:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T21:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2010-11-09T14:47:35","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T21:47:35","slug":"what-in-the-world-is-a-tico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/what-in-the-world-is-a-tico\/","title":{"rendered":"What in the World is a Tico?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/costa-rica-man-on-horseback.jpg\" alt=\"In Costa Rica, a 'Tico' rides his horse down the street.\" title=\"In Costa Rica, a 'Tico' rides his horse down the street.\" width=\"220\" height=\"230\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2615\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/costa-rica-man-on-horseback.jpg 220w, http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/costa-rica-man-on-horseback-143x150.jpg 143w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/>What in the world is a Tico? Sounds exotic. Maybe it&#8217;s something like a Pi\u00f1a Colada or a Cappuccino. Or maybe it&#8217;s one of those little biting pests that you find in tropical places. Wrong! A Tico is a very special group of people that inhabit one of the most beautiful, tropical and hidden paradises in the world\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/costarica\/\">Costa Rica<\/a>. \u201cTico\u201d is simply the name commonly used to refer to the native inhabitants of Costa Rica.<\/p>\n<p>But why \u201cTico\u201c? In the Spanish world, the diminutive, formed by dropping the final \u201co\u201d or \u201ca\u201d and adding an \u201cito\u201d or \u201cita\u201d depending on the gender, is commonly used out of friendliness and familiarity. It\u2019s much more <em>cari\u00f1oso<\/em> (affectionate) to call your <em>amigo<\/em> (friend) an <em>amigit<\/em>o (little friend).<\/p>\n<p>About a century ago many Costa Ricans made the mistake of forming the         diminutive by adding an \u201cico\u201d to the end of words. So <em>poquito<\/em> (the         Spanish diminutive of the word <em>poco<\/em>, little, few) would be <em>poquiTICO<\/em> when spoken by a Costa Rican. Because of their friendly and warm-hearted manner, the people of Costa Rica commonly used the diminutive in their everyday speech patterns and thus earned the nickname \u201cTicos\u201d from         outsiders.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Costa Rican educational system has now taught most of the         Ticos the correct grammatical usage of the diminutive forms in Spanish, the term \u201cTico\u201d remains to commemorate this charming affection of the past.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What in the world is a Tico? Sounds exotic. Maybe it&#8217;s something like a Pi\u00f1a Colada or a Cappuccino. Or maybe it&#8217;s one of those little biting pests that you find in tropical places. Wrong! A Tico is a very special group of people that inhabit one of the most beautiful, tropical and hidden paradises &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/what-in-the-world-is-a-tico\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What in the World is a Tico?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42],"tags":[244,33,13,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}