I went to Argentina a few years ago and quickly learned I wouldn’t survive without trying to use at least a little bit of Spanish. I’m good enough now that I’m not laughed out of the room when attempting to pronounce foods like flanchoco, but no one would accuse me of being good at Spanish. You know who is good, though? Ben Affleck. The actor is excellent at speaking Spanish, and some recent comments as The Rip hit the 2026 Netflix schedule actually started a mini Internet trend.
There are a lot of fun words in Spanish, but according to what Ben Affleck told his The Rip co-stars Matt Damon and Sasha Calle, his favorite has to be a word with innocuous origin that sounds like a "swear" if you are just hearing it without knowing what it means for the first time. Yes, I’m talking about the crowd pleaser “sacapuntas.” It may really mean “pencil sharpener,” but Affleck thinks it sounds hyper insulting.
