Cheat Sheet for E15S02
Listen to episode 15 here
- Kiosco: it’s the ubiquitous store where you can find everything you need. It was fashionable in the 90s to call them “drugstores”, if they had more space, more products, and payphones. Now it’s back to kioscos, plain and simple.
- Cordoba y Callao: One of the busiest corners of Buenos Aires.
Cordoba y Callao por michell zappa @ Flickr
- Mychael Henry , chef at POKE pop-up restaurant
- Alan Epstein and the Office
Local Chat with Diego Macadar from Quierobagel.com. He summons everybody to join the BA Bagel community at Bagelog.com
Spanglish Playground: Automatic Nicknames
- Luis/Luciano…Lucho
- Ignacio…Nacho
- Dolores…Lola
- Francisco…Pancho
- Constanza…Coti
No one under 35:
- Carlos…Cacho
- Oscar…Oski
- José…Pepe
- Manuel…Manolo
- Rodolfo y Adolfo…Fito
- Ernesto y Roberto…Tito
- Alberto…Beto
- “I have a crush on you”: we agree that there’s no exact translation, but one that could be is “tengo un metejón con vos/estoy metido con vos”.
- Grinding: Perreo. But it’s not an Argentine word, it’s mainly used in other Latin American countries.
- Chabón: Dude. For other expressions for “dude”, listen to Episode 13
- Jewish Community of Buenos Aires: the largest in Latin America, with around 200 thousand people (before WWII and the creation of the State of Israel historians put the figure at around 500 thousand).
- Frank Almeida from Sugar and Spice Cookies and Agustina Menéndez from Bitch tours
- Cuddling: Dan refers to it as “Cucharear”, from the Spanish word “Cuchara” (Spoon). And it can also be called “hacer cucharita”
- Acento Cordobés and Cuarteto: Stereotypical things of this Argentine province. Here’s a video of people doing cuarteto:
- and a Cordobés comedian
- And in case you aren’t familiar with the movie Dan and Alan quote on the show (Ricky Bobby), here’s a clip:
Expat Chat: Israeli Aviv Cohen says he came down to BA before the country collapsed. In 2001, December there was a total economic and political meltdown, that marked the end of the 10-year convertibilidad process, by which 1 dollar was pegged to 1 peso, by law. He also mentions the three intelligence agencies of the UK (MI6), Israel (Mossad) and Argentina (SIDE; which stands for Secretaría de Inteligencia del Estado).
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