On 10/06/2011 04:45, [email protected] wrote: > Hi there, > > The translation of Ballroom in Spanish is Salon. Therefore, Tango de Salon > translates into Ballroom Tango. > Literally, yes. But terms like "Tango de Salon" and "Ballroom tango" soon acquire secondary meanings that are more important than the literal one (especially "Ballroom", which tends to mean something different from just merely 'danced in a ballroom').
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballroom_dance As you can see, "Ballroom Tango" as introduced in the UK is a very different (and very narrow) animal from "Tango danced in ballrooms in BBAA". _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
