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aqua pura: pure water: Or, "clear water" or "clean water" aqua regia: royal water: Refers to a mixture of hydrochloric acid and nitric acid, thus called because of its ability to dissolve gold and platinum aqua vitae: water of life "Spirit of Wine" in many English texts.
Pura Vida, meaning "pure life" in Spanish, may refer to the following: A phrase encapsulating the culture of Costa Rica. Pura Vida (film), a 1956 Mexican film that popularized the phrase. Pura Vida (album), a 2006 album from the band Hamlet. Pura Vida Bracelets, company that sells bracelets from Costa Rica.
Plot. The film follows the story of Melquiades Ledezma, who is expelled from his home town after being labeled a source of bad luck. Misfortune finds him in his new home when he is accused of robbery and intentionally starting fires. His unlucky streak ends when he finds a winning lottery ticket of a million pesos. [1]
The official language of Costa Rica is Spanish. [6] However, there are also many local indigenous languages in Costa Rica, such as BribrÃ. [7] [8] English is the first foreign language and the second most taught language in Costa Rica, followed by French, German, Italian and Chinese. [9]
Latin obscenity is the profane, indecent, or impolite vocabulary of Latin, and its uses. Words deemed obscene were described as obsc (a)ena (obscene, lewd, unfit for public use), or improba (improper, in poor taste, undignified). Documented obscenities occurred rarely in classical Latin literature, limited to certain types of writing such as ...
Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham. Originally, Urban Dictionary was intended as a dictionary of slang or cultural words and phrases, not typically found in standard English dictionaries, but it is now used to define any word, event, or phrase (including sexually explicit content).
La chingada is a term commonly used in colloquial, even crass, Mexican Spanish that refers to various conditions or situations of, generally, negative connotations. The word is derived from the verb chingar, "to fuck". The concept of "la chingada" has been famously analysed by Octavio Paz in his book The Labyrinth of Solitude .
The following is a list of slangthat is used or popularized by Generation Z(Gen Z), generally those born between the late 1990s and early 2010s in the Western world. Generation Z slang differs from slang of prior generations. [1][2]Ease of communication with the internetfacilitated the rapid proliferation of Gen Z slang.