In Argentina, handsome was practically never used to determine a handsome man. They commonly say «good boy.»
The word papichulo represents one of the recent terms that women use to refer to handsome men, especially if they are their partners. A papichulo is a hot kid, with a good body, who wears the trend. It should be noted that this word was recently admitted by the dictionary of the Royal Academy of Spain RAE, which defines it as: «man who, due to his attractive physique, is the object of desire.»
taking the bondi
For an Argentine, the bondi is a bus (which we don’t call a bus but rather a collective) and from that moment on he doesn’t «take the bus», we own it.
If someone tells you that to proceed somewhere you must wear the bondi, you already know what you must do.
As they say pineapple in Argentina
In Argentina, the pineapple is not a fruit, but the pineapple is equivalent to a punch, to a blow. Argentines call the fruit piña. So now you know, if you travel to Argentina, if you request a pineapple, you expose yourself to receiving a beating! Better ask for a pineapple.
For Argentines, money can be called in multiple ways: silver, string, biyuya, tarasca, sope, sleeve, fly… We can say that the list is very long and new nicknames are always displayed. But apart from the different ways of saying money, there are Argentine expressions to express proportions of money.
All this precious mess is a huge parable that can be useful, then, to talk about our national being.
It was useless to run to the counters of the Argentine Society of Music Authors and Musicians (Sadaic) to record exactly the same harmony, but with different lyrics. It was pointless to have tried other variations of the title. As the sadaic statutes allow to write down different projects with identical titles, over the years the enormous institution that houses Argentine authors and musicians of each and every one of the genres and styles dedicated itself to liquidating the rents of Mellace, while the good Dick watched his rights hide through the window.
All this beautiful mess is a huge parable that can be useful, then, to talk about our national being. In other words: our much more common song, the patriotic cry that unites us, our true hymn of promise, played in court over decades for illegal appropriation and creator rights. Fortunately, dirty clothes are washed at home.