Swearing Translated – Part 8

Hi to all those venturing forth into the land beyond Oz. If you’re going to be spending some time here, you should know both how to tell if you’re being cussed out and how to do it yourself, if the situation is to ever arise.

Here is part eight of some easy guidelines to help you on your way to verbally express your pissed-off emotions or to understand the emotions of an angry porteño.

Phrase	Literal Translation	Our Best Actual Translation
Me da paja hacer eso	It gives me hay to do that	I don’t feel like doing that
Ella es una calienta pija	She is a dick warmer	She’s a cock tease
Tiene más culo que cabeza	He has more ass than head	He’s one lucky fucker
El no da pie con bola	He does not give foot to ball	He’s one unlucky bastard
Me fue para el culo	It went for the asshole	It went like crap

Now, mix and match them to come up with some of your own to use on that special person.

Paul Perry
LPBA.com Staff

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From the North of Argentina to the World!

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Che Malambo Traditional Dance

It's a very Argentine dance, not from Buenos Aires though. Look at their feet. They imitate how the gauchos used to dance.




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Your Planet Ambassador Program

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By being a YouPlanet ambassador, you can travel to places around the world earning instead of spending money. With only a few sign-ups every week you will earn more than enough money to explore the world.

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Book Review: ‘Che Boludo: A Gringo’s Guide to Understanding the Argentines’

By James Bracken, Ediciones Continente, 30 pesos, 61 pages Reviewed by Stephen Page

On a recent sunny spring day, while wandering the streets of Buenos Aires, searching for a café where I could sit outside at a table and sip an espresso while looking at the passers-by (a popular Argentine custom), I detoured into a bookstore.

On the very first shelf I came to, I found a pocket-sized book titled Che Boludo, with the subtitle: A Gringo’s Guide to Understanding the Argentines.

I opened the book and discovered it was a dictionary of sorts, filled with words I had never read before. The words were contemporary Argentine slang, and the definitions were in English. “What a great find,” I thought.

After a decade of living in Argentina, I have been missing some of the slang while talking with friends, or at Sunday family get-togethers (they don’t teach Argentine slang at US universities, or in most of the Castellano classes offered in Buenos Aires). I was growing tired of repeatedly asking, “What? What does that mean?”

The title of the book translates to, “Hey Idiot!” or “Hey Buddy!” or “Hey Friend!”—depending on to whom you’re talking and your tone of voice. “Boludo” literally means “one with big testicles,’which does not mean “ballsy” or “brave,” but instead denotes a lack of cerebral functions. In Argentina, the young as well as the old use slang. You might hear an elderly man with a cane standing on the street corner waiting for the green crossing light mutter “¡miercoles!”—which translates to “shit” or “Goddamnit” or “hell”; you might hear a sophisticated woman in a fur coat call her husband’s new secretary a “puta” (whore) or a “babosa” (horny woman) even if she knows bystanders are listening to her; you might hear a teenager say to his brother, “No me hinchés las pelotas,” which means, connotatively, “don’t be a pain”—but denotatively means, well . . . you’ll have to read the book to know that one.

The book also contains drawings of the more popular hand gestures Porteños use—gestures that have risqué yet non-offensive meanings.

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Glaciar Perito Moreno, Argentina falling down. It's awesome!

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ACCOMMODATION IN BUENOS AIRES

B.A. Plus Spanish School has a permanent connection with Argentina Global Rent, Touristango Aparts, Homes B.A. and Welcome2BA, prestigious real estate agencies with extensive experience in the temporary rentals business. If you wish, B.A. Plus will arrange the appropriate residency to suit your needs from our network of houses and apartments. The options you may choose from are:

• Fully equipped furnished apartment (individual or shared).
• Host Family House.

In any case above, you will be placed near the school (Downtown Buenos Aires) or will be just a quick subway trip away. If instead you would prefer to stay at a hostel or hotel, cntact us and B.A. Plus will offer you a wide variety of options to choose from. Once you find the one you like, we will make the corresponding reservations for you.

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