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Tag: observations
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A dance to share your sorrow or happiness
One could say that tango is mostly a genre of sad music. Not that there are no happy and funny tangos but most of the tangos are talking about lost loves, immigrants and their roots, deaths, the nostalgia of their homeland, etc. Most of them feel sad. In greek, there is a saying that I…
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Sur: one word, many meanings
In my previous post, I wrote about patterns within and among languages. Yesterday, it was another great Tango By Year night traveling back to 1948. So… here is an example of how specific words in specific contexts can mean a lot more than what you can find in a dictionary…. and when you use them…
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Is music always female?
As you probably know it’s been a few months that I have been taking German lessons. In German as well as in other languages nouns and therefore abstract notions have a gender (I think, English is excluded because everything is neutral unless there is an explicit gender assigned usually by nature). One of the most…
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The bucket list
In my free time sometimes I get to YouTube and just watch different videos that get my attention. From tango performances… to psychology advice, new gadget reviews, ted talks, etc. Today, I saw a video about bucket lists. Things that you would like to do before you die. The guy in the video said something…
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No mistakes in the tango, darling, not like life
Tonight’s Goodnight Tango… came to me as an idea for this post… completely by accident. I wanted to write about mistakes… yes… this thing that we think we do when we dance and we immediately “sorry” our partner. So I Googled “tango about mistakes” and guess what came up as the first result! The famous…
