Name: Los Patinadores-Cantautor: Enrique Gotera-Los Compadres del Exito 1965 by retrogaitas
Duration: 3 min 51 s
Description: Los Patinadores-Cantautor: Enrique Gotera-Los Compadres del Exito 1965

Kinsey from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is looking for a term that denotes the silence that falls around a dinner table when the food arrives and everyone is really enjoying it. Some possibilities include German gefressenes Schweigen, or “voracious silence” or Genussstille, which means “enjoyment silence.” There’s also the similar French expressions silence gourmand and silence de gourmandise. In English, you might refer to companionable silence. The term incipit, which refers to the first few notes of a musical work, might be extended metaphorically to those first few moments of a meal. http://waywordradio.org

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In New York and northern New Jersey, a children’s playground slide was once commonly known as sliding pond or sliding pon. The terms reflect the considerable influence of Dutch settlement in that area, the Dutch word baan meaning a “path” and glijbaan or “slide path” being a term for what others call simply a slide. http://waywordradio.org

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If you’re going to hit the road in a motor home, best to bone up on some of the slang used by RV enthusiasts, like stinky slinky, PUPs, and gassers. A stinky slinky is a sewer hose, a PUP is a pop-up camper, and a gasser is a motor home powered by gasoline rather than diesel. http://waywordradio.org

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Dorothy Sayers' 1935 novel, Gaudy Night (Bookshop|Amazon) includes a memorable description of late winter transitioning into early spring, noting that “February was sobbing and blustering its lachrymose way into March.” http://waywordradio.org

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Writer Jhumpa Lahiri grew up speaking Bengali and later English, then became passionately devoted to a third language, Italian. Her book In Other Words: A Memoir (Bookshop|Amazon) is a love letter to Italian and a vivid account of the challenges and joys of learning another language as an adult. Lahiri wrote the book entirely in Italian; noted translator Ann Goldstein rendered the text into English. Lahiri reads both versions aloud in the audiobook. http://waywordradio.org

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A Nevada listener says her mother used to ask her to collect the pearls after a meal, meaning “gather up all the unused dishes and utensils that didn’t need to be washed.” In Australian slang, such an item is often called a sunbeam. http://waywordradio.org

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The slang term doorknobbing denotes an extended leave-taking, as when someone says “Goodbye,” but keeps coming up with one more thing to say. Sharon in Wind River, Wyoming, shares a story about someone who used to respond to such a person with If you're going to go, go. If you're going to stay, stay. But for God's sake, don't ooze out. http://waywordradio.org

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In Venezuelan slang, something that’s constantly irritating is a piña bajo el brazo, or “a pineapple under the arm.” http://waywordradio.org

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Quiz Guy John Chaneski’s puzzle relies on voiced and unvoiced consonants, specifically the consonants D and T. One clue brings to mind a famous name with an unvoiced T sound in it, but also a clue to the name if you replace the voiced T with an unvoiced D. For example, here’s a musical question: What two words ending in T and D are suggested by the hint He wrote ‘Raindrops keep falling on my nest,’ and ‘What the worms need now is love’? http://waywordradio.org

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The hit TV show Pluribus featured a scene in a Norwegian ice hotel where guests are assured that once you get used to it, their room is quite cozy, and uses an apt Norwegian idiom describing how they’ll feel: som plommen i egget, or fitting “like a yolk in an egg.” http://waywordradio.org

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Los Patinadores-Cantautor: Enrique Gotera-Los Compadres del Exito 1965

Los Patinadores-Cantautor: Enrique Gotera-Los Compadres del Exito 1965

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