minimum level of acceptance is considered, by default, a Lunfardo term. The original slang has been immortalized in numerous tango lyrics. Conde takes the view that the Lunfardo is not so much a dialect but a kind of local language of the Italian immigrants, mixed with Spanish and some French words. He believes that Lunfardo is not a criminal slang, since most Lunfardo words are not related to crime. According to Conde, Lunfardo Characteristics Lunfardo words are inserted in the normal flow of Rioplatense Spanish sentences, but grammar and pronunciation do not change. Thus, an average Spanish-speaking person reading tango lyrics will need, at most, the translation of a discrete set of words. Tango lyrics use Lunfardo sparsely, but some songs (such as El Ciruja –Lunfardo for "The Hobo" or "The Bum"– or most lyrics by Celedonio Flores) employ Lunfardo heavily. Milonga Lunfarda by Edmundo Rivero is an instructive and entertaining primer on Lunfardo usage. A characteristic of Lunfardo is its use of word play, notably vesre (from "[al] revés"), reversing the syllables, similar to English back slang, French verlan, Croatian Šatrovački or Greek podaná. Thus, tango becomes gotán and café (coffee) becomes feca. Lunfardo employs metaphors such as bobo ("dumb") for the heart, who "works all day long without being paid" or bufoso ("snorter") for pistol. Finally, there are words that are derived from others in Spanish, such as the verb abarajar, which means to stop a situation or a person (such as to stop your opponent's blows with the blade of your knife) and is related to the verb "barajar", which means to cut or shuffle a deck of cards. Examples Nouns buchón – "snitch", informer to the law (from the Spanish buche, in turn slang for "mouth") chochamu – "young man" (vesre for muchacho) facha - "face", and by extension "appearance", "looks" (from Italian faccia, "face") fato - "affair", "business" (from the Italian fatto, lit. "done") fiaca – "laziness", or lazy person (from the Italian fiacca, "laziness, sluggishness") gamba - "leg" (from the Italian gamba "leg"). Also "100 pesos". gomías – "friends" (vesre for amigos) guita – "money", "dole" lorca – "heat", as in hot weather (vesre for calor, "heat") luca – "1,000 pesos" mango – "peso" mina – "chick", "broad" (from the Italian femmina, "female") naso - "nose" (from the Italian naso, "nose") palo – "1,000,000 pesos" palo/s verde/s - "dollars" percanta – a young woman