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Is
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Yes, they exist and are used, mostly by people forced to find a living beyond Asturias (the famous 'urban myths' of the long-term Asturian president, Vicente A. Areces).
People often refer to Asturias when they are far away as:
La Tierrina
A rhetorical question when locals see relatives return to Asturias on vacation: Como tira la tierrina, eh?
More along the lines of an epithet, and often in relation to the immobility of contemporary Asturian society, the anesthesia-like symptoms it exhibits as a result of the clientelist networks of the FSA (the unreformed wing of the PSOE in Asturias):
El Principeu
[a play on words derived from 'El Principau', or the Principality, only here the ending -peu is a reference to 'fart']
The media in Asturias, especially the FSA-controlled TPA (Asturian public television), in order to dilute nationalistic tendencies, resorts to calling it la region. Imagine instead of 'Freistaat Bayern' they simply began to call it 'die Region'. Would Bavarians feel shunned?
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Trans. Is
Si que hai nomatos ou formas pa referise a Asturias, sobretou pa la xente que tuvo que marchar (las l.lendas urbanas del presidente asturianu, Vicente A. Areces).
La xente refierse a Asturias cuando tan l.lonxe cumo:
La Tierrina
Una cousa que sentiras muitu n'Asturias pa cona xente que torna de vacaciones ia: Como tira la tierrina, eh?
Mas mote que nomatu, ya davezu en relacion cona inmovilida de la socieda n'Asturias ya los sintomas d'anestesia provocaos polas redes clientelares de la FSA (el PSOE ensin reformar del estau espanol):
El Principeu
[un xuegu de palabras que vien de 'El Principau']
Los medios asturianos, sobremanera la TPA, seique pa que nun medre el nacionalismo, chama a Asturias la region. Imaxina que en cuenta de 'Freistaat Bayern' un dia entamaran a chamar a Baviera die Region. Los bavaros nun tarian picaos? |
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Art
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 4:12 am Post subject: |
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That's an interesting commentary, Is, especially "El Principeu".
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Es un comentario interesante, Is, especialmente "El Principeu". |
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Maestro Tomberi
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| Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 5:51 am Post subject: |
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Another couple of them are
Paraíso Natural - We often are refered because the beauty of our land, compared to a natural paradise which it truly is  .
Piojo Verde (Green Scale) - Very few people have nowadays knowledge of this nickname for Asturias. I can only say it was more known in the final years of Franco and that it had strong politic connotations: Asturias is a very small region and green region, but however we have been a big nuissance for those who wanted to submit us.
Not a good one, briefing . 
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Art
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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Ha! "Piojo verde" is a good one. I'd translate it "green louse."
Piojo/piojos (lice) is one of my favorite Castilian words!
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¡Ja! "Piojo verde" es fantástico. Traduciría como "green louse".
¡Piojo/piojos es una de mis palabras favoritas de castellano! |
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