I know I talk not a small amount of negative smack re: Chile’s campaigns. There’s the campaign that urges men not to be violent with their partners that leverages the word maricón. Despite Chilean assurances to the contrary, I feel the campaign is both sexist and homophobic.
However, negative trash talk aside, this [...]
They didn’t tell me there would be cows in salt ponds. Oh! What I might have missed.
On a recent trip to the coastal (and later, mountain) regions of Región de Maule and BíoBío here in Chile, during which we experienced a kind of dubious signage (photo evidence forthcoming), and an [...]
One of the most charades-prone and elaborate hand gesture-filled explanations of my early ESL/EFL teaching life was the difference between fun and funny.
Fun, I would explain, is when you have a good time, like going on a roller coaster (roller coaster haters aside). Funny was something that makes you laugh, like ferrets in [...]
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