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To: archy
A chivo is a calf in my dictionary.
9 posted on 12/31/2003 11:34:21 AM PST by Johnny_Cipher (Dimension Zero)
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To: Johnny_Cipher
A chivo is a calf in my dictionary.

Gives a scary dimension to thoughts of the days of chivalry. What's your dictionary list for a chivito, the term I picked up for a goat's kid?

There's of course a wide variance between the Spanish usage in Castillian Spain, rural border Mexico, and the Cuban idiom I picked up as a youngster some 45 years ago. A couple of slang analogies come to mind as well, better left to those with a good working knowledge of the recent working terminology found in the Mexican *Boys Towns* around Nuevo Laredo, Nogales and Tijuana.

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14 posted on 12/31/2003 11:50:56 AM PST by archy (Angiloj! Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj!)
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