When I saw one of the videos presented by Ana María, I remembered the significate of term "flaite", as we call to the tacky people in Chile.
There are several origins related to the word "flaite". The most popular one refers to the use of NIKE sneackers. The "Nike Air Flight", was created in 1997 for the basketball player Michael Jordan, but these had a high price, then made in Chile a sneaker alternative or pirate is named "FLYGHT".
These illegal copies would have a high demand among poor youth with a penchant for buying expensive items from leading brands seeking to imitate the customs of the North and Central American gang members.
Those youth mispronounced the name of chilean model, they said "Las flai te"(for FLYGHT).
From that moment on ,this type of youth was nicknamed "Flaites".
P.S.: Did you see the "FLYGHT sneacker" in the head of "choro Naco?
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José Luis :
Before analyzing your article.I have a piece of news for you.At Bío-Bío flea market,if you get to the corner of Bio-Bio and San Isidro Streets turn right and at the middle of the street there is a warehouse that's situated in front of the exit of another warehouse where all kind of computer devices and old books are sold.Well,in one of the places there is a guy who has a Saudi Arabian Coca-Cola bottle .The man who sells it, is in one of the first five corridors in a corner next to some offices.So if you have money ,go and buy it before others do it.In that same warehouse you can also find old Cokes as there are a lot of places which are offering them. Now,analyzing your text you must change to the following words " as we call to the tacky people in Chile","There are several origins related to the word "flaite"...","the most popular one refers to the use of Nike sneakers...","...Flight" was created in 1997...","so they made an alternative model in Chile called "Nike Flight","Those youth mispronounced the name of the Chilean model", "From that moment on ,this type of youth was nicknamed "Flaites",and "Flight Sneaker".
Your teacher.
PS:So you can identify the warehouse I'm talking about ,I can tell that from the street at simple view you can see an old lady who sells a lot of Coca-Cola products(Christmas Decorations,bottles,balls, hats etc..).Go and check all the warehouse if necessary.)
Corrected. Thanks professor.
I'll try to go to the warehouse on Sunday.
Jajajaj good information, I didn`t know that!!
Teacher; Did you watch those videos on youtube? You have to put the mouse on the title of each video and do "clic".
See you tomorrow!
Ana María :
I saw them all some days ago and I really enjoyed with them.Besides the ones that belong to Pixar I have them in DVD and when I'm down in the dumps at night I watch them to laugh for some moments.
Your teacher.
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