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Meaning of el tantanes

el tantanes: A singular article with a plural noun. See the ( article ), tantan ( "percussion instrument", "word games") , tantane ( "Tan-Tan's Gentile" ?) .; THE TANTANES type of children's joke where the augmentative mode is repeatedly used so, so that it can have the sense of a maximum, as of a minimum : It was so, so, so low that when he died he went to the ceiling.; They're jokes designed for kids. Its main feature is in employment of the phrase "so. . . so" in its construction to intensify or exaggerate the mental images it evokes. Another of its attractions is the game with the multiple meanings or sounds of words. 1 . "He was so short, so short that when he died, he went to the roof." 2 . "He was so tall, so tall that he had no sien, he had a thousand."; the tantanes are a way of expressing in formadivertida