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https://www.est1892.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=4002484#post4002484
Thanjk you.
Paul.S
The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.
On Suarez, no surprises there. Apparently he needed a B1 level (lower intermediate) which will be impossible to learn in a few weeks unless you were a crazy polyglot who knew several other similar languages. I think you need to know 10 000 words and invest 300-400 hours of study on average to achieve that (depending on the language). Really funny all the same.
It's an absolutely amazing but not at all surprising turn of events. What a glorious cheating cunt. I have nothing but respect for that. It's an actual thing over in Uruguay and Argentina, an artform. I think it's great.
While deception and, yes, cheating largely controvert the particularly British principle of fair play, not all cultures share the same view. Loosely translated as ‘native cunning’, viveza criolla is the art of mischievous deception particular to Uruguay and Argentina. In the words of anthropologist Eduardo P. Archetti, it encourages a “capacity to cheat where necessary”.
One of its central principles is to “gain a psychological edge wherever and whenever possible” – and, rather wonderfully, it is all the more welcome if it is against your biggest rivals. Daniel Rosa, a journalist with Uruguayan publication El Pais, said:
"There’s an expression in Uruguay about how you want to win. If it’s in the last minute and with a moment that enrages your opponent, all the better. That is viveza: knowing how to gain any advantage" - DANIEL ROSA
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