Let’s say, just for the sake of argument, that a rabipelao really did cause the power failure in Puerto Ordaz yesterday.
In the wake of the calamitous public relations disaster that was Iguanagate, in what head does it fit to actually announce it to the public!?
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According to the news, there is also a new member of the rodent family!
I guess those rabipelados were always crypto-rats; they don’t look at all like those cute koalas!
Had I written the article I would have avoided that term, but I maybe it is correct, in the sense that the DRAE registers “roedor” as an adjetive for things that gnaw. The story is that the animal gnaw on a cable, so…..but I wonder if the writer knew this.
Oh this one has all the makings of a fun/meaningless semantic fight!
Sorry but “roedor” has a clear meaning in biology – it’s an order, and species unambiguously do or do not belong to it. A rabipelao is a marsupial, not a rodent.
(I know it’s true because Wikipedia says so.
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Yay! Meaningless semantic fight!
I said I invoke DRAE! http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=roedor (first meaning) . In spanish, (also by DRAE) to lay a claim on the use of the word as formally zoological, the word must be capitalized (4rd). The article in noticias24 (linked in the post) clearly uses the first definition. ¡DRAE mata wikipedia!
By the way, if I am right, you can’t translate the word in the article as rodent, but as gnawer. (because in english there’s no confusion: rodent is rodent, even if it has peos psicológicos).
The caps rule only applies when you write the word in plural referring to the order, “Roedores” and I think you are giving way too much credit to the person who wrote the article.
In the RAE page click the artículo enmendado link in the upper right and you’ll see.
Not talking about the verb! in El Universal the cap said: “Roedores causan falla eléctrica en Ciudad Guayana” in http://www.eluniversal.com/economia/120614/roedores-causan-falla-electrica-en-ciudad-guayana
What a disrespect for a marsupial to be called a rodent!
Did these animals also attack electric plants during La Cuarta Republica, or is la naturaleza rising up against Chavez?
Come on Jeffry, you know they were genetically altered by the CIA to only sabotage revolutionary governments.
Oh silly me!
The poor things almost starve during the coup.
Chavez always likes to quote Bolivars famous “…….aunque la naturaleza se nos oponga” and I guess La Naturaleza listened up!
I may be a neophyte with limited grasp of language, semantics and electrical engineering but something about this report just doesn’t ring true somehow. As for the “into what head” comment, it implies an appeal to logic! For one’s own good, one should never forget the plaque for “ARRIVING PASSENGERS” at Maiquetía, above that (full) box,that reads, “Passengers are invited to deposit, in the box provided, any logic they may be carrying: it is of no use in-country and may cause possible distress. Such passengers may retrieve said logic on departure”
can you just imagine the Soviet government back in 1986 blaming the Chernobyl disaster on a Siberian Amur tiger?
“Comrades, do you know who is responsible for this? Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL!”
SICK, SAD AND TRUE
Oh, man. I never get sick of Juana the “CIA-trained saboteur” Iguana references: http://www.organooficial.com/2012/06/from-archives-remembering-juana-iguana.html
“Juana the Saboteur Iguana” would also be an excellent premise for a children’s book, especially if it was illustrated by the cartoonist from Tal Cual.
I am amazed that they didn’t blame this as an act of terrorism of sorts from the “Empire”. After all, it is our acts of bio terrorism that gave him and other South American leaders cancer. Just blame us again. We are responsible for everything :)
Oh, it is coming. Just wait a little bit …
Yes, it is true. Soon all the world will fear our trained possums. No one shall stop us… (laughing maniacally…)
I believe the Opposum will ask Chiguire for Asylum after this…….
The “Oppo” is the same as the majority of the poor in Venezuela (who, in turn, are a majority of the population)–COMIENDOSE UN CABLE”!