History of the Pi\u00f1ata, By Wendy Devlin in MEXICO CONNECT<\/a><\/p>\nNow, I wasn’t all that interested in the theories the website posed, but I did have a moment where I wanted to test my Spanish comprehension after studying it for five years in high school. For my data set, I used the song at the bottom of the page. I think I may have given myself an “F”.<\/p>\n
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Dale, dale, dale, no pierdas el tino,<\/i>
\nCome, come, come (?) Do not lose the…tino. That Dah-lay stuff could just be la-las. As for the tino, maybe the stick?<\/p>\n
porque si lo pierdes, pierdes el camino.<\/i>
\nBecause if you lose it (the tino), you lose the street. Well, street could mean path in this case. That’s a little heavy for a song about mindless violence. That stick must be some sort of divining rod or something.<\/p>\n
Esta pi\u00f1ata es de muchas ma\u00f1as<\/i>
\nThis pi\u00f1ata is made from many tomorrows. Hm, some kind of Zen koan \/ carpe diem sentiment. We build a papier-mache representation of the future — in the form of a horse, usually, because horses are…always moving forward — and then we obliterate it with a heavy stick to show…that we’re nihilists? Wait, that says ma\u00f1as. What’s a ma\u00f1a? Well, I’m sure the basic meaning is much the same.<\/p>\n
s\u00f3lo contiene naranjas y ca\u00f1as.<\/i>
\nIt only contains oranges and … canes? Or candy, maybe? Candy canes! Aha! That’s a strange combination of foods. And hold on just a second, I thought the pi\u00f1ata was made of tomorrows. Now you’re just going to take that all back and say, “Dale, Dale, only fooling! It’s just a stupid papery husk with oranges and candy canes in it! Is your mind blown yet?”<\/p>\n
La pi\u00f1ata tiene caca, Tiene caca:<\/i>
\nThe pi\u00f1ata has crap in it, it’s got crap in it. Oh, so now I don’t even get the oranges and candy canes? So what, now my tomorrows are hollow, or worse, filled with crap? To hell with this; if I wanted that kind of abuse, I’d pay some leather-clad warrior woman for it and I’d *be* the pi\u00f1ata. Not that…well, anyway, I’m not translating the rest of your stupid song; I’m taking my tino and I’m going home. Bunch of empty promises. Jerks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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