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Welcome to Chilean Slang explains a podcastthat will help you to better understand your
Chilean friends. And now here isyour host, Marco Fierro Alla Come with
Taiwan. Welcome to a new episodeof Chileans Lance Plan, a podcast to
help you understand chilensmos. So ifthat's something you're interested in, consider subscribing.
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And in this new episode, Iwill talk about a chileanslang word that
might come in handy when you havelots of stuff. Why is that?
Well, let's find out in thisnew episode. Bam. We've both been
in a situation where we buy somestuff thinking we need the object and we're
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going to use it, but thenwe don't. We don't use that item
that we bought at some point,and then we don't know what to do
with that. Whenever we're tighten upour room, we find these objects over
and over again and they pile up. Well, all of those objects or
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pile up song we're waiting to beused someday. Those things we don't dare
to throw away. Those are preciselycat two reals and none that we normally
use in the plural form. Gottwo reals say ah say at ore a
h se cat two reals, andthis world is so natural to Chilean people
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that sometimes we don't realize that it'sa world that is only used here in
tile The standard equivalent in Spanish inother countries is normally cativarties. But I've
never heard somebody untiler talking about theircativartis. In a recent post by a
Chilean city hall, the City Hallof Cocimbo, in a campaign to clean
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the city, one of the articlesread continuous barrios Cookimbo. So there you
have it. This is the firstminting of cat tworeos. Useless staff.
We tend to pile up Maericando isnot happy about cattoreos, does it spark?
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You can also use catoreos to referto things of somebody else that you
find useless, So you can useit with a pejorative intention. Let's say,
for example, that you have anuncle who is fond of UFOs and
he has lots of staff to studythat topic. But maybe you find that
topic useless, so you can saya yes, stammido gonso catchoreo. There's
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my uncle with his cat tworeos.We can also use catoreos as a verb
cato real. For example, whenyou go to the flea market and you
run into one of your friends andthey ask you catando do you like to
katuyard in the flame market? I'msure too, em And finally, if
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you have friends in their thirties millennials, there used to be a famous TV
show similar maybe to Sesame Street withpeople in dis guise and the name of
the show was Cartureos. It wasquite famous in the nightties. I still
remember some of their songs for kids. Probably many millennials still remember some of
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their tunes. Maybe that's a goodconversation topic to start a conversation with your
chilling friends and show that you knowsome pop culture of Chile. And that's
all for today, Glacier chileans LANsplan. If you enjoy the show,
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