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¡Feliz lunes!

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Leo Messi: “La vieja guardia 🇦🇷”

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#food

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A teenage girl prepares for the fiesta Quinceañera, a celebration of the 15th birthday.

Location: Cuba

Photographer: David Alan Harvey, 1998

Fifteenth-birthday celebrations were very popular in Cuba until the late 1970s. This practice partly entered Cuba via Spain, but the greatest influence was the French. The wealthy families who could afford to rent expensive dining rooms in private clubs or hotels of four and five stars held celebrations that were the precursors of quinceañeras, which they called quinces. These celebrations usually took place in the house of the girl or the more spacious house of a relative.

#quinceañeras #cuba #latinas #cubans

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Argentina football geography map

There are all the Argentine teams (about 350), from the Primera División to the Primera C Metropolitana and Torneo Federal B.

by @RiccardoDAgnese

#argentina #futbol

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Mancacoyota by Alfredo Ramos Martínez

#alfredo ramos martinez #art #latine artists #mexican artists #indigenous

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y’all realize you can riot and organize AND vote right? like it’s not either or

#us politics #voting

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tbh something i never hear anyone talk about re: homelessness is the common practice of police charging regular bribes out of tent campers under the threat of small-scale sweeps

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Taxco, Guerrero, December 2022.

#mexico

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hi - I’ve had trouble finding a satisfactory answer online for this: why is it that some adjectives precede the noun theyre describing? for example, “un buen profesor” or “la nueva maestra”. i love your blog and it’s helped me so much! thank you!!

Someone else asked a similar question that I have saved in my drafts I've been working on. I'll give you a short version before I go back to my drafts

Most adjectives go after the noun [el gato negro "the black cat", la luna llena "full moon" etc]

When regular adjectives go before the noun it reads as very exclamative and flashy, as if that adjective were in bold or italics. Full on extra emphasis [as in: El maravilloso mago de Oz "the wonderful wizard of Oz" which reads as "the wondrous" or "the marvelous" rather than simply "great" or "wonderful" in a traditional sense]

Some nouns change meaning depending on adjective placement; nuevo/a, and bueno/a are like that

More below...

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Another basic example: es una historia larga "it's a long story" vs. es una larga historia "it's a SUPER long story"

In the case of nuevo/a if it comes after the noun it means "brand-new" like "never been used before"

If it comes before the noun it tends to mean "newest" or "latest"

As an example:

la nueva maestra = the new teacher [f] / the teacher [f] who was just hired la maestra nueva = the new teacher / the rookie teacher

If I saw la nueva maestra I would tend to think "just hired", if I see la maestra nueva I get the sense she's a teacher who doesn't really know how to teach but that might just be me

Other adjectives like this are mismo/a where la misma cosa is "the same thing" vs. la cosa misma "the thing itself"

A really common one is triste like if you see triste in front it means "dreadful", if you see it behind it's just "sad"

And there's antiguo/a, bueno / buen, buena, grande / gran, viejo/a, mismo/a, nuevo/a, mal / malo/a, triste, etc.

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In the case of bueno/a which is honestly more confusing, this is the way I was taught:

un buen amigo = "a good friend" = he was good as a friend

un amigo bueno = "a kind friend" = he was a good person who was also my friend

Similarly there's malo

un mal amigo = "a bad friend" = a friend who is not a good friend

un amigo malo = "a bad friend" = a friend who is a bad person

But there are certain expressions or set "collocations" [a set word phrase] that use them a certain way like un buen augurio "a good omen" vs. un mal augurio "a bad omen / an ill omen"

#spanish #language learning #grammar #adjectives

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Reagan-era "stranger danger" panic has done so much harm to americans' sense of community. It cemented the idea that only the nuclear family could be trusted with the care of the child, deterred people from cooperative living with an extended community, and continues to place abuse victims in danger by perpetuating the misconception that most child abuse is done by strangers rather than someone they know. It is in our best interest to become more interdependent than we were raised to be.

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Translation:

UNINTELLIGIBLE, that I'm telling you.

It's not easy birthing a child... It's not easy.

What are you going to do with your children? What will you give them?

Where is your husband?

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Translation:

UNINTELLIGIBLE, that I'm telling you.

It's not easy birthing a child... It's not easy.

What are you going to do with your children? What will you give them?

Where is your husband?

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