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If they aren't playing that on 99.3 something is wrong!
Actually they are on KYNO 940, 99.3 plays 70s and 80s, no 60s, 99.3 does play Kokomo and that's about it for The Beach Boys.
I was only talking about KOKOmo but I needed to see it in print one more time to get the joke!
No. "Pueblo" can mean a town or village. But it also means "the people" and, often, "the common folks".
"La Música del Pueblo" would be "the peoples music" or "everyone's music".
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
So much for Google Translate. (Why I distrust AI.)
And ask for a translation of "raza". Most non-Hispanics think it means "race" as in "Black" and "white" and "Asian". Actually, in Mexico where it is used as a vernacular, it means "the people" or what we'd call "the common folks" decades ago.
And "raza" also means "breed" as in kinds of dogs and cats and other animals. There is a real risk in thinking that words that seem the same and look nearly the same mean the same thing.
My favorite comparison is that in English, I am a descendant of my grandparents and ancestors. In Spanish, I am an ascendant.
Aka; Gringo.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I remember that when the Bic pen company started marketing in Mexico, they wanted to point out that the pen would not leak onto your shirt pocket and ...
La pluma no te hará embarazada. 🤯
As long as we are off topic, here is one that involves a brand whose name was pronounced in the same way as a profanity:
When the car named Cricket was introduced, it was also advertised in Puerto Rico in Spanish. In the uniquely spoken Puerto Rican Spanish (which has its roots in the Canary Islands) last syllables or letters are often dropped in common speech. The word "cansado" for "tired, exhausted" is said as "cansao" or kan-SOW.
So the car named Cricket was pronounced as "KRI-ke" or "KRI-keh". Either way, that was almost the same way that the vulgar term for the female organ is pronounced.
Change in ad strategy. Suddenly the car was named "cri-KET" with the stress on "KET". In any case, the damage was done and the local dealers did not want to carry that model any longer.
We even have this issue in English. Some people disparage Charles Darwin as a racist because the of the title of his book "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life", but during his era, the word "race" had a meaning much more similar to the Spanish word for "breed".
One of things I love to point out is that cansado and casado (married) are only a one letter difference.
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