3995 Lunfardo today in Buenos Aires
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:03:24 -0300
From: Alberto Gesualdi <clambat2001@YAHOO.COM.AR>
Subject: Lunfardo today in Buenos Aires
Dear friends from tango list
Lunfardo as used in tango scripts, was a language used by thieves and prisoners , altogether with a mixture of foreign words that inmigrants brought with them from their countries ( beginning of XX century )
Actually , year 2005 , there are stil thieves and prisoners , and they used new words , or words that represent what is happening today. There are not too many tango scripts with this subjects . Maybe some scripts from Acho Estol from La Chicana tango group.
Follow some expressiones used at 31 Jail of Ezeiza, a special women unit, for women with good behaviour that are reassigned from other (worse) jail units. Also pregnant women that are allowed to gave birth and keep their babies with them .
Jail 31 is not so far from Ezeiza airport , a common place for foreigners arriving to Argentina. What is ironic or tragic, is the inmates of this prison are in many cases, convicted for breaking drug law , usually as "mules" since the fashion at Ezeiza is to hire a little"mule" to take some envelopes with cocaine, then an anonymous call is made to the police, and when they arrest the little mule, the real mule smuggles in briefcases the real cargo.
warm regards
alberto gesualdi
The jargon at the prison
Pinta: persona / person
Bicha: celadora / jail keeper
Fajina: limpieza / cleaning
Verduguear: maltratar/ physically abuse without sex abuse
Infanta: asesina de niqos / being in jail due to killing children
Ponerse pilla: aprender a vivir adentro /learn to live inside the jail
Cortar la bocha: dar un tema por terminado / consider a discussion ended
Pararse de manos: enfrentarse para pelear / engage in a fight
Rancho: grupo de internas / group of inmates that share a place and food
Bagallo: bulto /bundle
Ir de p a p: visitar otro penal / switch from one jail unit to another
Soguera: ladrona de poca monta (roba la ropa colgada de la soga) / petty thief, a woman that steal clothes hanging from the rope to dry
Sogazo: castigo inmerecido / underserved punishment
Meter pipa: disparar / fire a weapon
Celular: celda individual / individual jail
Tubo: celda de castigo / punishment jail, a confined place
Entubar: castigar / punish
Leonera: celda compartida en el sstano del juzgado / jail shared by prisoners at the basement of a legal court while waiting to be summoned by the judge.
Horno tumbero: olla puesta al revis sobre una hornalla / a casserole palced upside down over one of the fires of the oven, for cook using
Naves: zapatillas /tennis shoes
The women that druglords seek
The 61% of the women at Unidad 31 is in jail for breaking law 23.737: making, posession or dealing of toxics. Throughout the other jails of the federal area , the percentage rise to 64,3% (considering altogether the ones waiting veredict with the already condemnd) for a total figure of 1.046 women.
Abrm tu cuenta aqum
