534  fresh lunfardo

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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 14:25:36 -0500
From: "Frank G. Williams" <frankw@MAIL.AHC.UMN.EDU>
Subject: fresh lunfardo

I'm smiling about a catch-all expression I heard last week
in BA.

"GARCA"!

...a blind step against line of dance into your partner... a Garca!

...another resignation in the government... I am told, "Politicians
are all Garcas!"

...you get home a day earlier than your messy son expects... GARCA!!

Frank - Mpls.
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Frank G. Williams, Ph.D. University of Minnesota
frankw@mail.ahc.umn.edu Dept. of Neuroscience
(612) 625-6441 (office) 321 Church Street SE
(612) 624-4436 (lab) Minneapolis, MN 55455
(612) 281-3860 (cellular/home)



Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 17:31:46 -0500
From: "Frank G. Williams" <frankw@MAIL.AHC.UMN.EDU>
Subject: Re: fresh lunfardo

Addendum - four points

> I'm smiling about a catch-all expression I heard last week
> in BA.
>
> "GARCA"!

point 1) ...spoken bemusedly among tanguero/as about situations or
people, and by actors/actresses in amusing sitcoms.
...Always followed by laughter.

point 2) ...not genteel, but of amusing derivation...

point 3) akin to "screw-off" or "screw-up"

point 4) suggestion: use it only among friends


F. - Mpls.


Frank G. Williams, Ph.D. University of Minnesota
frankw@mail.ahc.umn.edu Dept. of Neuroscience
(612) 625-6441 (office) 321 Church Street SE
(612) 624-4436 (lab) Minneapolis, MN 55455
(612) 281-3860 (cellular/home)


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