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Welcome to Chilean Slang Explains, apodcast that will help you to better understand
your Chilean friends and now here isyour host, Marco Fierro La la Comai.
Welcome to a new episode of ChileansLang's Plan, a podcast to understand
the Chileans most your Chilean friends andfamily news. That way you will become
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a Chilean Spanish expert. And inthis episode you will learn what dar la
peire means dar La pelli. Haveyou heard this expression before? If not,
stay here and get ready to learnsome more about Chilean slang bama contre.
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To understand what pele re means,we'll analyze a piece of news from
a Chilean newspaper. This was apiece of news from a news paper called
La Quarta, a newspaper that usesinformal language to tell their stories. And
the article is about some Chilean influencers, those annoying assholes who we're going to
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start a reality show. I've gotno idea if that finally happened. But
the piece of news started as followsto introduce the article about the reality show
or influencers. So the article saysthat many influencers, so an opportunity on
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social media to grow, create contentand Drely Lapell to the old TV.
Listenalize that section a bit. Ifthey're using social media to grow, they're
not using the TV. So whatare they doing with the TV? What
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do Chilians mean by Darley Lapel?Is it something good? Maybe from the
context you can tell that it's notsomething good about the TV. And you're
right, dar Le Lapell is todump it literally kicking in the rass.
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And yes, if you think aboutit, you Tooers, Instagrammers and the
like are living out of job thetraditional TV. So influencers are kicking TV
in the ass. That's what itmeans when the article says dar Le Lapel
and tia. And you might bethinking why this curious abbreviation of three letters
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P P L R. Well,pile stands for pata e laraja. Pata
or pata means a kick. Wetend to drop the D in between babbles
and chilia. That's why we saypata instead of patava and laraja da ah
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draja. Larga means the ass,So dar la is to give a kick
in the ass. But in orderto avoid saying all the time. To
avoid saying, we use the initialsand we normally use it with the verb
dark dar la. So influencers arekicking TV in the ass d they're not
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using it. They don't care aboutTV anymore, So that's dar la.
You could also use dar la whensomebody is fired. If one of my
colleagues got the sack, I couldsay the lapelleri they give him a kick
in the ass la ja. Oralso if your boyfriend or girlfriend broke up
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with you, you could say mipololo or polola medio lapelli. You see,
So whenever you hear lapelleri, orif you hear you're going to get
lapelli, you know what it means. Now have you ever gotten lapelli dan
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dado lape There is even a songin Chile by a group called Tantrumpia that
has a song called pat raja.So you know what pa or means by
now. And that's all for today, glass yas police cutar tilens lands plant.
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