What's Going On By The Congress Now?

[Ceviche]

These forums have English speakers from the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, etc etc.

These forums have English speakers from the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa,Nigeria, Trinidad & Tobago, St Lucia, Grenada, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Singapore, Philippines, Kenya , Jamaica, Belize, Zimbadwe etc

But some of the US origin members fail to see that and this has led to lot of heated arguments on this forum

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I travel all over Latin & Central America and use of words, accents ( at times) are so different in each and every country tha its literally mind boggling. Same holds good for English as well.

 

[Bajo_cero2]

According to this article, in one year the lost is going to be between 65 / 70% of the purchasing power.

https://www.pagina12.com.ar/85061-los-mas-vulnerables-pagan-los-mayores-costos

Here they also explain that before the automatic rise was of 14% against the new 5% i mentioned previously.

 

[ben]

I live in both the USA and Argentina. In the USA, for the past year, not only has it been impossible not to listen to Trump, but it has been impossible not to hear dozens of mainstream media sources on the right that are constantly using "thug" to mean black people. It is impossible not to hear friends (yes, I have friends who are not clones of me politically) use the term racially, to hear neighbors and see politicians, and, very frequently sports casters, use "thug" to mean black people. Every sports radio show in the USA has been talking about "thugs" who wont stand and salute during the anthem for months.
This usage of the word is everpresent in the USA. In public, and in private life, on every media outlet.
The current owner of the Panthers is selling due to just this kind of oblique racism.

I am not accusing anyone here, personally, of being racist- merely stating that, in an english language forum, you cannot use the word without those connotations coming up, regardless of whether you think it means that or not.
The language, all languages, change due to contemporary usage.

Lots of words carry weight that may not come up in google translate- something I certainly try to be conscious of as I learn Castellano.

That someone might have started to use the term racially does not obligate society at large to start treating the term as such. It is clear that society at large has not adopted this connotation, at least not yet, and probably not ever.

For example, I don't think that in this Washington Post article, columnist, Jennifer Rubin is calling Jeff Sessions a N-word.
(Though would be hilarious, for many reasons, if she was.)