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In English, we call it a "pencil case". You're right, it's a bit old-fashioned nowadays.

You're right, "katti". Jakob wrote, "My Spanish is ok[ay] after 1 year on and of[f] living in Spain, but my friend’s vocabulary is limited to [']una cerveza más, por favor.[']"

¿Quién sabe? I took it to mean straight and unteachable -- no comment about the wearer. (Do note, NE, that I was quoting "mendoza70"'s posting on the Sixteenth instant.)

And here I thought that I was a passable linguist, having read or spoken well at one time or another several languages, but aside from a bit of classical Hebrew and a few penny's worths of Dutch and Danish -- wait! Haven't we a native Dane on the forum now? Seriously, BG, thanks for posting...

That, they were (though Argentina already had endured inflation and default before), just as you surmised.

Ah, forgive me! Your command of English is much better than I'd given you credit for: when you indicated that you were using a multi-year figure, I simply (and wrongly) assumed that you had actually meant to indicate an annual rate. Quite true, the most annual recent rate of 5.8/100,000 yields...

Goodness, homicides in the United States total nothing like 180,000! Fewer than six thousand deaths would be around a third of the annual total of homicides in the States: the murder rate is about 5 or 6 per hundred thousand inhabitants, probably roughly the same as in Argentina (far below the...

Argentina did a good job the last time: the current Colón, the second of the name in Bs.As., was regarded as one of the very most beautiful opera houses in the world when it was opened, a century ago -- a time of many lovely theaters throughout the Western world -- and no one would have denied...

The taproots of lunfardo are indeed Spanish and Italian, I'm told, extending from the underworld in mid- or late-nineteenth-century Buenos Aires. Its influence isn't pervasive in gran Bs. As. and pretty thin beyond. So do I. I delight in the place and in what I've heard and seen there. I've...

It reminds me of a childhood spent partly in Colorado. Of course, almost anything can look better under unmelted snow!

Interesting, Pericles, though one needs the salt cellar nearby ("Lumfardo" isn't Argentine Spanish, for example).

Both questions are easily answered by a quick, comprehensive, free consultation online with -- oh, wait: I just noted that the OP apparently resents having his questions answered -- 'sorry!

A polyhedron. Now, that was simple, wasn't it?

No, "vo", I made no such implication. Again, I wish you well and hope that you will remedy the situation quickly.

Well, then, you've less confidence in your persuasive powers than I have!

I do hope that you're not saying that all Asian states are "underdeveloped" or all Asians in the West are from a "low background"! Bueno, enough of this. I had some insight and possible remedy based on the peculiarities of situations now seen not to be appertaining here. From what you've now...

That's fine, "vo"; and from a very human (and humane) standpoint, it would have been fine, too, had you been Asian. I simply would have had additional and peculiar insight into your situation in the latter instance, as I have as a lawyer helped several Asian women pro bono in somewhat similar...

Mightn't it be possible, Steve, that your postings in opposition to BB's critique of real-estate investment in Bs.As. succeeded in dissuading him from his chariness?

True. And true, too, that -- in my very limited experience, and perhaps influenced by my Argentine friends and cousins -- I really don't see any more here than elsewhere. I'm not certain of the origin of the reputation that Argentines, or porteños at the least, suffer in some circles for being...

From what I've seen over the course of several decades in the United States, yes.