The trend is fundamentally rooted in functionality. It makes the street cooler during hotter periods with intense sun. Since its invention it has spread enough to potentially also merely be fashionable decoration though
It makes the street cooler during hotter periods with intense sun
it’s fascinating to me that the Bolivians call them paraguas – i learned to call them parasols, which directly confirms your description since para sol literally means “stop sun”. lol
Paraguas is of course also Para Agua - stop water.
I’m more used to parasol being used for the larger variants commonly seen at the beach, but often they can be somewhat interchangeable in function - what stops water is also likely reasonable at stopping sun
The trend is fundamentally rooted in functionality. It makes the street cooler during hotter periods with intense sun. Since its invention it has spread enough to potentially also merely be fashionable decoration though
it’s fascinating to me that the Bolivians call them paraguas – i learned to call them parasols, which directly confirms your description since para sol literally means “stop sun”. lol
Paraguas is of course also Para Agua - stop water.
I’m more used to parasol being used for the larger variants commonly seen at the beach, but often they can be somewhat interchangeable in function - what stops water is also likely reasonable at stopping sun
i learned to call those tapasols – cover sun.
spanish can be so silly sometimes. lol
It certainly is one of the languages of all time