Word: cocacolismo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cocacolismo has borrowed freely from the U.S., it has also put new life into an old Latin American custom, the piropo, or street-corner compliment. "My compliments to your mother," the boys say. "If you want to kill me, I'll die." For a girl in a green dress, the proper piropo is "If you're like this green, what you'll be when you're ripe!" As for the phantasmagoric girl who is already ripe, the boys draw on their memories-of Italian movies, and say: "What a Pampanini...
| 1 |