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para unos y para ptros

English translation: Something for everybody

21:15 Aug 28, 2023
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Spanish term or phrase: para unos y para ptros
This is a Chilean visual artist and poet talking about the work she did in the 60s and 70s

Nuestra poesía, con la escuela sobre todo de Parra y los surrealistas, era coloquial, inmediata, desnuda y completamente libre; nuestros actos se desarrollaban en un ambiente de euforia y expresividad en los que el público, después de escuchar los poemas gritaba: ¡Más poesía! Nuestra especialidad era el arte erótico y político, para unos y otros.
Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 21:13
English translation:Something for everybody
Explanation:
For both sides, those interested in political poetry, and for those interested in erotic poetry.
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Andrew Bramhall
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:13
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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +5Something for everybody
Andrew Bramhall
4 +1whatever tickles your fancy
neilmac


Discussion entries: 6





  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +5
Something for everybody


Explanation:
For both sides, those interested in political poetry, and for those interested in erotic poetry.

Andrew Bramhall
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:13
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20
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Selected automatically based on peer agreement.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard
9 mins
  -> Thanks Phil;
agree  Juan Jacob: Evrybody, in this case !
27 mins
  -> Yep, thanks.
agree  Muriel Vasconcellos
3 hrs
  -> Thank you!
agree  patinba
13 hrs
  -> Thank you!
agree  Fernanda Lorenzo
17 hrs
  -> Thank you!
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
para unos y para otros
whatever tickles your fancy


Explanation:
Could be an option, especially if you fancy a bit of Frankie Howard or Kenneth Williams. Or perhaps a simplified version: "whatever you fancy".
Similar phrases could be "whatever your bent""... "cup of tea".... etc.

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Note added at 10 hrs (2023-08-29 07:38:32 GMT)
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Frankie Howerd.

Example sentence(s):
  • o whatever your bent, like with all art as a basic ethic...

    Reference: http://www.linguee.com/english-spanish/translation/whatever+...
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 02:13
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 82

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Adrian MM.: Good one and beats the first bland answer hands down! 'Whatever your bent' might suggest a Bent Copper (Police/wo/man) South of the Border.
1 hr
  -> Cheers :-)
neutral  patinba: The wrong register for a relatively serious text.
3 hrs
  -> Pantomime chorus: "Oh no, it's not!" (I admit it is slightly tongue-in-cheek though)
neutral  Andrew Bramhall: Typical of Adrian to childishly display his motives so transparently, by agreeing with your answer in order to cast an unmerited slur on mine//Agree with.Allegro;
11 hrs
  -> Er... get a room, guys?
neutral  AllegroTrans: Sad to see your "area" being used as a fighting cage
3 days 14 hrs
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