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Is Aliante Station A Bilingual Oxymoron?

By Chuckmonster on Sunday, 9th November 2008 6:07pm
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Fact: a brand new locals joint, Aliante Station opens this Tuesday evening. Yay... another Stations Casino! Whooop Dee Doo!

The question really is... wtf is an aliante anyways? Other than being a general term for a neighborhood in the north western quadrant of greater Las Vegas, aliante - the word - roughly translates (from Italian) to 'gliding' or 'moving with ease.'

Couple that with "station" and you get a borderline oxymoron... or least a linguistic dissonance.

¡Muy Aliante!



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 Dave702 posted on Monday, 10th November 2008 - 10:52 am

Great post--maybe they mean that while the Station appears to be stationary, it's actually hurtling through space--along with the rest of us--at 67,000 mph. At the same time, it's making a sweep with the solar system through one of the outward spirals of the unfashionable east side of the galaxy....

Ah, I give up. They just thought it sounded cool.

 RockChickX51 posted on Monday, 10th November 2008 - 11:25 am

I like how their buffet is called FEAST! (Like one of my favorite horror movies).
As far as the aliante thing goes....I have no idea. I typed it into Dictionary.com and it came back saying "Did you mean to spell Alienate?"
LoL

 Dave702 posted on Monday, 10th November 2008 - 3:36 pm

lol @ "Alienation Station."



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