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Mornings and evenings. It is because its path is closer to the Sun. So when looking towards it you are always partly looking towards the Sun.
So you are saying the morning star name is technically wrong? It should be the morning and evening star? Of course star is wrong, too...
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In my book, 1M people is when a city starts to become a “proper” city. It’ll host major events, invest in public transit (beyond bus), have extensive infrastructure, have extremely thorough airport service, likely have many walkable neighborhoods, and generally feel like a city. Under 1M and the city center tends to be very small with most people driving from the suburbs.
>Under 1M and the city center tends to be very small with most people driving from the suburbs. That's a very US or modern Asian city view. In my corner of the world, the Rhine-Ruhr area and the Franco/German/Benelux region almost all cities are [1] https://t0.gstatic.com/licensed-image?q=tbn:ANd9GcR5dl_qfSco...
European cities - compared to U.S at least - also maybe have the factor of how long it has been a city to contribute to how much "a city" it seems.
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Jesus. What a post. 15-30 million? Where? There aren't that many on the planet.
Traveling around China, their sense of scale it pretty much 10x what America's is. 1 million is barely a city, around 5 million and you are a 2nd tier city, hit 8+ million and you are a "real city". Meanwhile people in America are arguing that they are worried their "100k town is going to add 5000 people and become an urban hellscape!"
Is there a name for this simple style of writing? It reminds me of the style of pop science books written in the late 19th and early 20th century. There's a nice charm in it, like it's trying not to be pretentiously complex.
I can't stand it to be honest and stopped reading because of this.
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"weon" is a corruption of the word "huevón", that means literally "big egg". Is a polysemic word, but when used as adjective means "somebody with big balls"; by extension "somebody that spends the day sitting on their own testicles, unable to carry them" So a huevón is "a lazy lad", "a douchebad" or simply "a dude" (colloquially and vulgar, but also playful if applied to a close friend). The word is a minefield, some…
I think the most similar word/phrase in English is "son of a bitch" It can be an angry insult, a demeaning adjective, a term of endearment, an expression of surprise or bewilderment, ...
When Chileans drop 'weon' ten times in two minutes in their conversations what they are saying is "I'm not Argentinian".
This is the real message.
Because Argentinians would use their trade mark "boludo" instead. Boludo is exactly the same that Weon. A boludo is somebody with "big balls". A weon is somebody with "big eggs". Both words have small differences in their meanings but are mutually exclusive (You either use one or the other). They are tribal tags.
If you want to do business with a Chilean, knowing were to casually drop 'weon' in an --strictly-- informal context is pure gold. It grants instant ghetto pass. Mexicans or Argentinians have their own equivalent words. If you use the wrong password the doors will close, so is risky and you need to dominate the context and use it sparingly. The overuse could be socially awkward and outdated (Imagine somebody from Sevilla going to Texas dressed on a fake cowboy disguise, pretending to walk like one and talking to you about business while spitting tobacco and flashing a weapon. Is 120% stoopid).
Spanish world is complex. Latinos can belong to several worlds at the same time. Lets take for example the singer Gloria Stephan. Gloria Stephan is a 100% USA citizen. But it was born in Cuba so felts Cuban traditions also as part of her culture. And her Grandparents are from the North of Spain, so Gloria Stephan identity is an USA-Cuban-Spanish-almost-Irish music star.
Most Latinos learn soon to adjust their different identities to the context appropriate, and wear or drop their accents and languages accordingly.
On the other hand, when somebody choose to say 'mergear' instead 'mezclar', the message for millions of people is: "look ma, I'm talking English. Almost". As the band Blur would say: "He'd like to live in magic America with all those magic people". Youngsters crave for acceptation and local friendship, so Spanglish or local accents are seen as something very valuable for making relationships
But grown people needs to adjust the message later. If you are a Chilean that migrate to Spain and keep saying "weon" all the time, what you are remembering to everybody is "I don't belong there".
And is the same problem with Spanglish. If you want to use English, by Pete's sake, talk in the most correct English that you can afford. Get the respect that you deserve, instead to introduce yourself like a wannabee latino redneck. If you need Spanish in business, the safe baby-proof choice is to learn neuter Spanish. Period. Will provide the most bang for the buck. But don't be ashamed to wear the multiple rich cloaks of Spanish in your benefit in the correct contexts.
The article mentions it, but I only learned recently that Bolivia did not used to be landlocked. Chile took Bolivia's coastline somewhat recently (late 1800s/early 1900s). > The dispute began in 1879, when Chile invaded the Antofagasta port city on its northern border with Bolivia as part of a dispute over taxes. Within four years Chileans had redrawn the map of South America by taking almost 50,000 square miles of B…
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The Concepción metro area is 1 million people, Valparaíso/Viña as well. Chileans love to point out that there isn't much outside of Santiago but it's not really true.
is 1 million people a lot? I lived most of my life in metro areas of 15-30 million. when I finally ventured out and saw so many famous places at 1.5 million or less and how I could drive in and then back out of their downtowns in just a few blocks I was kind of shocked on how small most places are
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is 1 million people a lot? I lived most of my life in metro areas of 15-30 million. when I finally ventured out and saw so many famous places at 1.5 million or less and how I could drive in and then back out of their downtowns in just a few blocks I was kind of shocked on how small most places are
In my book, 1M people is when a city starts to become a “proper” city. It’ll host major events, invest in public transit (beyond bus), have extensive infrastructure, have extremely thorough airport service, likely have many walkable neighborhoods, and generally feel like a city. Under 1M and the city center tends to be very small with most people driving from the suburbs.
“This is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.”