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Translations please
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Please provide context, or page number. (Check spelling, please. Although Junot didn't).
Klerin: Does not look Spanish. (A noun?)
pelede?sta: person who belongs to the PLD party.
jiringonza?
jerigonza = language (jargon) of certain groups
jering?n/a = person who likes to annoy, make trouble
restavek:
A restavec (or restavek; from the French reste avec, "one who stays with") refers to a social system in Haiti in which parents unable to care for their children send them to relatives or strangers living in more urban areas where they receive food and housing (and sometimes an education) in exchange for "light" housework. In reality restavecs often live in grinding poverty, enslaved to their "hosts" and seldom receiving an education. The restavec system is considered a form of slavery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restavec
teta: mammary gland
tetatorio? (Maybe a place where there are many women, therefore many tetas. I don't know.
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tetatorio means the woman had BIG boobs. Oscar's mom had huge boobs.
if you give me tha page # I can tell you what the words mean or how he is using them.
if you give me tha page # I can tell you what the words mean or how he is using them.
I'm sure 'restevak' is still something done in the DR, I know it was a practice in the DR. Large very poor families would give away one of their children to a family who is a better off.
Yes, MAR. That is still going on among Dominicans. Sometimes kids are sent to other family members, but sometimes it's just to friends, or even people the child does not know. We just don't use the French term restavec; I don't think we have a specific term for it.
If you post the actual sentence the meaning may be completely different as well!!! Is this an attempt to make us go and buy the book?!? LOL!!!:cheeky:
Mil de gracias
A thousand thanks!
juanitas
Depends on context it's being used for, but in the campos are used to describe old maids or mother like figures "Matriarcas"
OMG!!!
Picardo, you really are a linear thinker, aren't you? Is it possible for you to see and separate a salutation and signature from the rest of a text, particularly when the OP's name has already been given.
By the way, It speaks volumes if you haven't read the book yet.
A thousand thanks!
juanitas
Depends on context it's being used for, but in the campos are used to describe old maids or mother like figures "Matriarcas"
OMG!!!
Picardo, you really are a linear thinker, aren't you? Is it possible for you to see and separate a salutation and signature from the rest of a text, particularly when the OP's name has already been given.
By the way, It speaks volumes if you haven't read the book yet.
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Don't blame me, as the term Juanita is used ever since I can remember in the rural areas of Juncalito, Las Matas, Sajoma, El Rubio, etc... To denote what I just described. Just like cholita is a term of endearment to refer to old working class women in rural Mexico, so too, is Juanitas (the plural version) used to denote old matriarchs in the DR.
Sorry Juanitas! Don't mean you're an old rag!! LOL!!!
Why on earth would I want to read the book?!?
Junot is not the kind of author that makes me spend money on paperbacks...
Awards and all! Ever heard "para los gustos, se hicieron los colores"?
Pero que es lo que quieres aducir con eso del que habla volumenes de mi respuesta al OP sin haber leido el libro? Acaso tu tienes mejor lexico Dominicano que el mio? Muestralo!:tired:
And btw the last words explained were a pun for Juanita...
I'd give anything to listen in on a conversation between Picardo and A Bientot, just for five minutes.
It would be the experience of a lifetime.
It would be the experience of a lifetime.
Which language of the five I can fluently make use of, do you propose I utilize on the conversation with your candidate?
Habari ya hasubiru catcherintherye!
Samahani unazungumza kiSwahili? Naelewa luga moja haitoshi catcherintherye... Bahati njema, nakutakia siku njema...
I mean no disrespect to either Pichardo or A Bientot. It is just that they are both so different in the way they think. When two such people engage in conversation they often have a somewhat disjointed yet very amusing discourse.
And no I don't speak Swahili.
And no I don't speak Swahili.
LOL!!!!!
Just jestering in the morning Cath!
Yet you could understand the question in nothing less than the language you, yourself picked for me!!! LOL!! The odds!!!!
I see your point and still, I believed you could see the pun towards Juanitas in my post! I'm only sorry that the effect will be gone on her now! LOL!!!
Have a good morning! (said that in Swahili earlier too).:cheeky:
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