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PROPAGANDA PARA URUGUAY:
En ingles casi dice "u r gay", que mas podrian querer?
LATINOAMERICA HAS GONE WOKE?????
U R GAY? ARGENSHE/HER??? CHILEY DE MATRIMONIO IGUALITARIO??? PARADYKE??? GAYTEMALA? COLOMBISEXUAL?
VENEZUELLE??? HE/HIMDURAS???
BRASIL.
MEXIJOTO???? ENBYDOR???
ELLE SALVADOR
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I'm fascinated by this example sentence in my Spanish workbook because Soraya is a Persian form of the Arabic name Thurayya, “the Pleiades”. As far as I understand, the name became quite popular in Spain thanks to the popularity of Queen Soraya of Iran. It reminds me of how Elvira, a Spanish name of Visigothic origin, became popular in Central Asia because it sounds like Arabic names starting with Al-/El-. I love how connected we all are to each other.
Other European names that are popular by association:
• Albina, from Latin albus “white”, similar Arabic reasoning above.
• Sabina, from the ancient tribe in Italy. Might have been helped by the association with the word säbiy, meaning child.
• Laura, pronounced Laúra /laˈu:ra/. I've seen people insist it's Arabic but I can't remember what they claimed the meaning was. Of course, perception =/= reality, I'd just really like to know what word they associate it with.
• Karina, from Latin carus “dear”, or a nickname for Katherine. I think this got mixed with Karima, “generous” in Arabic.
I'm not counting names that are similar but share a different origin, like Kamila/Camilla. I wonder what's the equivalent for other cultures, as in, names that are accepted as native/of local religion because of their sound.
My father just told me of a fun fact about the name "Melina" which I didn't know about that made me think of this post. Melina is a Greek name, but it became popular in Spanish-speaking countries after Spanish singer Camilo Sesto released a song called Melina in 1975, in honor of Melina Mercouri, a Greek actress, singer and activist who opposed the Greek dictatorship.
In this data website that lets you check the popularity of names in Argentina from 1922 to 2015 you can see that indeed the name Melina only started to gain popularity in 1975, going from 35 girls named Melina in 1974 to 141 in 1976 (the peak was in 2001, with 415 Melinas being born).
Melina is now a common name, so I had never wondered its origins or how it became popular to begin with. The more you know!
Also here's the song!
Thoughts on some of the new music releases I've listened to recently :)
I love it when the artist you least expect suddenly releases the best album of the year (so far). I've been listening to this everyday for almost a month now, we need more of this fusion of folklore with other genres because it's been giving us amazing music lately
Juana Rozas the artist that you are. I've been waiting for this EP since November and it did not disappoint - right now Fantástica is my favorite from it!
Funniest thing Emilia ever did. Lowkey impressed by this move, if she goes back to doing good music I'll actually support her villain era lol. On the song itself, this was one of my favorites from the original album but I never really vibed with the lyrics jgjgk I think I might like this version better! I still need to listen to the rest of the remixes though
This may be my least favorite Adéla song yet the visuals and choreography completely gagged me, I need her to be the next big thing I'm so serious about this it's been a while since I saw an upcoming artist with so much hunger and passion!!
First time I listened to a full album by Trueno - I'm genuinely surprised by how much I liked it! I had this one playing in my head daily ever since, I'm not surprised is one of the most popular (the people yearn for Los wachiturros).
Cute but to be honest it didn't stick with me for too long. I'm still very much looking forward the new album!
When I saw that Anitta had released an album inspired in macumba I RAN to listen to it. I still need to listen to it more but I quite liked it!! The first half in Portuguese is clearly the superior one
Back in 2014-15 I used to be a HUGE LiSA fan, and although I eventually stopped catching up with her music I'm still fond of it. I saw that she released a new album so I listened to it and she's still making the same five songs she does since 2011 jgjkhkh but I don't care her music is catchy and makes me feel nostalgic, go ahead queen continue cashing that anime opening check! Right now my favorite is Black Box (which came out in 2024 but I'm just listening to it lol)
Gustavo Germano, Ausencias Argentinas (2006)
Nunca Más / Never Again
"Your Honors, I wish to waive any claim to originality in closing this motion. I wish to use a phrase that is not my own because it already belongs to all the Argentine people. Your Honors: Never again."
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Argentina 1978 FIFA World Cup: Mothers of people who went missing (a.k.a were kidnapped, tortured, and killed) during the last civic-militar dictatorship desperately asks for help to the foreign press, after their requests for information of their sons, daughters and grandchildren were ignored inside our own country. [English subtitles]
Que Bad Bunny haya mencionando a Chile antes que a Argentina significa que reconoce el reclamo antártico chileno por sobre el argentino? 🤔
GOD BLESS AMERICA. AND HE NAMED EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN COUNTRY
An Offer From a Gentleman is my guilty pleasure (there are just Many Many Wrong Things in that book but they also put crack on it so I read it in two days) so I'm not surprised I enjoyed this first half of the season since they basically followed the story but got rid of the most glaringly problematic stuff in it.
However this season also struggles with the inevitable tension that arises from demanding its audience to actually engage with (kind of) period appropriate 19th century classism while still accepting the series' historical fantasy setting. For what I read, general audiences were genuinely surprised that the son of a viscount can't just marry a maid who on top of that is an illegitimate daughter. I don't entirely fault them (Bridgerton is painfully inconsistent in what they adapt and what they disregard from history), but it does disappoint me that apparently so many people just... didn't want any conflict at all? Like they just wanted the whole class difference to be thrown out of the window and Benedict just proposing Sophie halfway through the season? There's truly no hope for period dramas sigh.
The other big issue with this season's main story line actually comes from the source material, which is the weird implication that Sophie deserves a better life because her birthright as the daughter of an earl was stolen from her instead of. You Know. Actually questioning the system that allows the exploitation of the working class.
And at least in the book Sophie is very aware of how precarious her position as an illegitimate daughter is even as a child, while in the series she seemingly was unaware of this until after her father died. In fact the series hasn't bothered at all in conveying how stigmatizing being born out of wedlock could be, which again resulted in people thinking that Sophie "having noble blood" makes her a suitable bride for Benedict somehow.
An Offer From a Gentleman is my guilty pleasure (there are just Many Many Wrong Things in that book but they also put crack on it so I read it in two days) so I'm not surprised I enjoyed this first half of the season since they basically followed the story but got rid of the most glaringly problematic stuff in it.
However this season also struggles with the inevitable tension that arises from demanding its audience to actually engage with (kind of) period appropriate 19th century classism while still accepting the series' historical fantasy setting. For what I read, general audiences were genuinely surprised that the son of a viscount can't just marry a maid who on top of that is an illegitimate daughter. I don't entirely fault them (Bridgerton is painfully inconsistent in what they adapt and what they disregard from history), but it does disappoint me that apparently so many people just... didn't want any conflict at all? Like they just wanted the whole class difference to be thrown out of the window and Benedict just proposing Sophie halfway through the season? There's truly no hope for period dramas sigh.
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I don't know what I love more: Sophie having the cheek the nerve the gall the audacity and the gumption to basically tell Benedict "You make me too horny, you must leave your own house" OR Benedict responding with "You're absolutely right and I am so sorry, I'll go pack my shit"
BRIDGERTON 4.02 | Time Transfixed
RUTH GEMMELL as VIOLET BRIDGERTON (x) season 4, episode 4 of BRIDGERTON
BRIDGERTON 4.03 "The Field Next to the Other Road"
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Every time I go to the Ateneo Grand Splendid I think "this time I'll find a rich and varied catalogue that lives up to the beautiful building" and every time I leave utterly disappointed lol
Me: do you have actual anthropological works or is it just sociology and "the history of mankind" divulgation books
La sección "ANTROPOLOGÍA" del Ateneo Grande Splendid: we have good books trust us :)
Me: *goes to the anthropology section* *they only have sociology and "the history of mankind" divulgation books*
The place is practically a mandatory stop for tourists yet their "Books in English" section is literally just a table and a couple of shelves with mostly YA and for some reason they're more expensive than what they sell at Kel (aka the biggest English book store chain here)?? Sell translations of national authors you fools!!!! Kel does that!!!!
Every time I go to the Ateneo Grand Splendid I think "this time I'll find a rich and varied catalogue that lives up to the beautiful building" and every time I leave utterly disappointed lol
Me: do you have actual anthropological works or is it just sociology and "the history of mankind" divulgation books
La sección "ANTROPOLOGÍA" del Ateneo Grande Splendid: we have good books trust us :)
Me: *goes to the anthropology section* *they only have sociology and "the history of mankind" divulgation books*
