![]() Lucas, is a typical masculine name among the X Generation in Argentina. The word "guita" in lunfardo is synonym for "money".ĭuring the short period of the "Austral" which replaced the traditional "Peso" monetary bill, after the dictatorship of 1976 (between 19) and in the recent years after year 2.000, people used to call "palo" (stick) to the "million" of australes or pesos, so "2 palos" refers to 2 million pesos.įor the last 20 years or more, after year 1997 at least, and during the government of president Menem, as probably the hiatus of the pre-devaluation era before year 2000, and even today people got used to call "luca" to thousands of pesos, so "5 lucas" it means 5 thousand pesos. Today the cents are still legal but non-existent. Senior people above 65 now (previous to baby-boomer generation) used to call "guita" to the coins of low denomination of cents ('centavos'), like 2, 5 or 10 cent coins. In Argentina, among the years and despite many devaluation milestones, the lunfardo managed to persist in time some special nicknames to certain amount of money, not because color or type of the bill but to different meanings and uses. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language (for example, "buck" for a dollar or similar currency in various nations including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Nigeria and the United States). Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. JSTOR ( September 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "Slang terms for money" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. In this way, the song remains an anthem for young people rebelling against the capitalist status quo.This article needs additional citations for verification. Either way, no matter the stance of the singer, the lyrics point out the inherent sense of human greed. As if the singer is playing a character, a greedy one at that. But to many, they read as ironic (at least at first). Given Waters’ moral reckoning, the lyrics for the song may seem a bit on the nose. It was Pink Floyd’s first hit track in the United States, the home of big money. While the song and the album it’s featured on remain popular amongst music fans and young people alike today, even fifty years later, the song originally hit the charts at No. Ironically, “Money” helped make Pink Floyd a great deal of it. I very much wanted all that material stuff.” The only way to get something like that was through rock or the football pools. I remember coveting a Bentley like crazy. I remember thinking, ‘Well, this is it and I have to decide whether I’m really a socialist or not.’ I’m still keen on a general welfare society, but I became a capitalist. Speaking to The Observer in 1993 on the 20th anniversary of The Dark Side of the Moon, Waters said, “Money interested me enormously. This was the sort of moral quandary that Pink Folyd’s songwriter Roger Waters debated as he was writing the tune. If I have one of the dollars, that means you don’t. If we could, would we shower ourselves with possessions, with lavish cars and mansions, gold back scratchers, and more-all at the expense of those without? For money is a zero-sum game. It’s a battle many of us face on a daily basis. Below, we will dive into the history, meaning, and subversive nature of the song.
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