The audience exploded with laughter.
This is the correct verb. desternilló and not Destornillarse which means having a screw loose. To laugh uncontrollably or “break one’s cartilage” (from ternilla, meaning cartilage) from laughing so hard.
Could you please clarify; do you think there’s something wrong with the Spanish sentence? It looks correct to me as is.
- prnl. Desconcertarse obrando o hablando sin juicio ni seso.
OP is saying the sentence is correct, which it is. The expression is ‘desternillarse de risa’.
I guess what prompts the comment is that it’s common (among natives) to say destornillarse here, simply because tornillo is a common word, ternilla they’ve never heard, and the switch kind of makes sense semantically.
I didn’t spot the difference. Thanks!
(https://dle.rae.es/desternillarse)
2 prnl. Reírse mucho, sin poder contenerse.
Sin.:
reírse, partirse, mondarse.
It’s 100% correct. But as Daniel said, it’s easily confused with another verb. I commented to help myself and others who came upon the sentence because the translation engines don’t interoperate it accuratel.
