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Post by lentil_soup »

jordigh wrote: post #9

"Día de los muertos" sounds so weird to me, like we're talking about a particular group of dead people (say, the dead from a war) instead of the dead in general. I would say "día de muertos" and most Mexicans in Mexico agree. It's obviously a back-translation from the English which requires the article. I also wonder when did the face-painting tradition start. The first time I saw it was in 2005 at a Halloween party.…

I don't doubt it's known as "Dia de Muertos" over there, but technically "Dia de los Muertos" is also correct in Spanish. It's the day of the group of people that are dead.

Just like you would say "Dia de las Madres", "Dia de los Niños", no?

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Post by javiercp »

lentil_soup wrote: post #11
jordigh wrote: post #9

"Día de los muertos" sounds so weird to me, like we're talking about a particular group of dead people (say, the dead from a war) instead of the dead in general. I would say "día de muertos" and most Mexicans in Mexico agree. It's obviously a back-translation from the English which requires the article. I also wonder when did the face-painting tradition start. The first time I saw it was in 2005 at a Halloween party.…

I don't doubt it's known as "Dia de Muertos" over there, but technically "Dia de los Muertos" is also correct in Spanish. It's the day of the group of people that are dead. Just like you would say "Dia de las Madres", "Dia de los Niños", no?

Yes, as a Spanish speaker (from Spain) if I didn't know that it is called "Día de Muertos" in Mexico it would sound strange to me.

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Post by jordigh »

lentil_soup wrote: post #11
jordigh wrote: post #9

"Día de los muertos" sounds so weird to me, like we're talking about a particular group of dead people (say, the dead from a war) instead of the dead in general. I would say "día de muertos" and most Mexicans in Mexico agree. It's obviously a back-translation from the English which requires the article. I also wonder when did the face-painting tradition start. The first time I saw it was in 2005 at a Halloween party.…

I don't doubt it's known as "Dia de Muertos" over there, but technically "Dia de los Muertos" is also correct in Spanish. It's the day of the group of people that are dead. Just like you would say "Dia de las Madres", "Dia de los Niños", no?

I always heard "día de muertos". The first time I heard "día de los muertos", I thought it was some kind of protest over some massacre. We have many prominent groups of dead people in Mexico. :-(

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#16

Post by corpMaverick »

Mexican here. Not everybody does the whole enchilada as it is portraited in the movies.

On this day, my dad used to got to the cemetery to visit his parents. Clean the tomb and leave some flowers. But now that he is gone and I don't leave near him any more we are starting a tradition to make an altar with some photographs just to remember them and make sure that the members of the family understand that we didn't come from nothing, there is a family history and people that left a mark on what we are today. I think it is a beautiful tradition, not as fun as Halloween but it has deeper meaning. At least to us.

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Post by jordigh »

corpMaverick wrote: post #16

Mexican here. Not everybody does the whole enchilada as it is portraited in the movies. On this day, my dad used to got to the cemetery to visit his parents. Clean the tomb and leave some flowers. But now that he is gone and I don't leave near him any more we are starting a tradition to make an altar with some photographs just to remember them and make sure that the members of the family understand that we didn't com…

How old are you, and what part of Mexico are you from?

I really think it was in the early 1980s when the SEP started to spread the holiday. It's kind of hard to figure out.

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#18

Post by jstimpfle »

jordigh wrote: post #9

"Día de los muertos" sounds so weird to me, like we're talking about a particular group of dead people (say, the dead from a war) instead of the dead in general. I would say "día de muertos" and most Mexicans in Mexico agree. It's obviously a back-translation from the English which requires the article. I also wonder when did the face-painting tradition start. The first time I saw it was in 2005 at a Halloween party.…

I'd first heard of it by playing Grim Fandango in around 2000. (Bought it a few years ago on Steam to play again, and it still gives me goosebumps).

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#19

Post by corpMaverick »

jordigh wrote: post #17
corpMaverick wrote: post #16

Mexican here. Not everybody does the whole enchilada as it is portraited in the movies. On this day, my dad used to got to the cemetery to visit his parents. Clean the tomb and leave some flowers. But now that he is gone and I don't leave near him any more we are starting a tradition to make an altar with some photographs just to remember them and make sure that the members of the family understand that we didn't com…

How old are you, and what part of Mexico are you from? I really think it was in the early 1980s when the SEP started to spread the holiday. It's kind of hard to figure out.

Chihuahua, Went to elementary school in the 1970s. As a kid we celebrated Halloween more than "El dia de los muertos"

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#20

Post by tremendo »

jordigh wrote: post #17
corpMaverick wrote: post #16

Mexican here. Not everybody does the whole enchilada as it is portraited in the movies. On this day, my dad used to got to the cemetery to visit his parents. Clean the tomb and leave some flowers. But now that he is gone and I don't leave near him any more we are starting a tradition to make an altar with some photographs just to remember them and make sure that the members of the family understand that we didn't com…

How old are you, and what part of Mexico are you from? I really think it was in the early 1980s when the SEP started to spread the holiday. It's kind of hard to figure out.

I am 55 and we did celebrate Día de Muertos back in the 60's. Then we would bring flowers for our deceased, and outside (and inside) the cemetery it would be a lively scene with basically the whole town there doing the same, vendors of flor cempasúchil, sugar skulls, little calaveras (skeletons), etc. it's been an event my whole life, and something my parents celebrated, it's not new.
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