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What does "tipco" mean?
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A "tipico" is a place where they play merengues with the "typical" instruments:
Accordion, rasp, (sax), drum.(G?iro, tambor y bandoni?n) Other instruments, like the trumpet are sometimes there, too.
The "t?picos" tend to be milder music, with an older crown. Good dancing music.
Sometimes also caled "G?iri-g?iri"
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Accordion, rasp, (sax), drum.(G?iro, tambor y bandoni?n) Other instruments, like the trumpet are sometimes there, too.
The "t?picos" tend to be milder music, with an older crown. Good dancing music.
Sometimes also caled "G?iri-g?iri"
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Spelling is critica.
Yes I see I misspelled ciritcal in a sub-title about spelling. Ho ho.
Put in the right spelling t?pico = typical. If you are accent challenged ( it is a pain to type them on a PC) you get very literal machine translation on Google/Altavista. Tip - get the Franklin translator - it knows what you mean , offers a correction (t?pico) and then tells you the meaning. You see this a lot in Central America (comida t?pica) for local food restaurants/cantinas.
Try ten?a (the imperfect past for tener). Enter tenia you get tapeworm. Interesting when you get e-mail from someone telling you they had something. The smaller non-voice Franklin translators are very affordable.
OttawaTom said:
Yes I see I misspelled ciritcal in a sub-title about spelling. Ho ho.
Put in the right spelling t?pico = typical. If you are accent challenged ( it is a pain to type them on a PC) you get very literal machine translation on Google/Altavista. Tip - get the Franklin translator - it knows what you mean , offers a correction (t?pico) and then tells you the meaning. You see this a lot in Central America (comida t?pica) for local food restaurants/cantinas.
Try ten?a (the imperfect past for tener). Enter tenia you get tapeworm. Interesting when you get e-mail from someone telling you they had something. The smaller non-voice Franklin translators are very affordable.
on my last visit...this is what i came to know as a tipico. Its not a mercado or a real bar....but just a place that sells stuff...usualy liquor and cigarettes and perhaps some food.
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Around here, when they refer to a tipico, it basically means any place that sells drinks and plays loud plinky plinky music, and is operated by Dominicans.
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