Waldemar Iglesias
08/24/2021 6:01 AM
Clarín.com
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Updated 08/24/2021 6:01 AM
In the last collection of his best known, eternal, corrosive phrases made by
Clarín
just after his 60th birthday, the last, it is verified that his footprints are indelible and unequivocal.
And they even mutate in different charming ways.
How did he do it?
How did you leave them forever as a legacy of time and space and language?
The sciences, in this case neurology and neuroscience, have some explanations for those wonders of the crack of Fiorito and the world.
Mariana Bendersky, neurologist and researcher at CONICET points out: "If we say that they
run the ball
, does it mean that they must move a ball, or spread a news story? Idiomatic expressions are groups of words whose meaning is usually different from the sum of its components" .
Diego Maradona - without knowing or studying it - understood it perfectly
.
A lot, of course, also has to do with who receives them.
"On the other hand, many patients with aphasia, a language disorder characterized by the inability or difficulty to communicate through speech, writing or mimicry and which is due to brain injuries,
preserve the understanding of these expressions
, which "which speaks of being represented in other areas of the brain. In many cases, these accessory areas in the same hemisphere or on the other side can take control of language and compensate for the damage."
Somehow,
the rogue Maradona, the one with his mythical phrases, can be understood by everyone
.
A short list about it.
of Ten, of course:
1) "He drinks the cat's milk"
(about Juan Simón).
2) "More false than a celestial dollar"
(on several occasions).
3) "I say sanguchito because he is always close to the cake"
(about the late journalist Bernardo Neustadt).
4) "If I see Duhalde in the desert, I throw him an anchovy."
5) "Judge Bernasconi is very fast, he is capable of putting a suppository into a hare" (
the judges were not spared from Maradona's occurrences either. In 2000, the Ten attacked Bernasconi).
6) "I was wrong and I paid, but the ball did not stain" (in his tribute match at La Bombonera).
7) "The drug is a pacman that your whole family is eating you."
8) “Coppola is very lively.
He smokes under the water ”.
9) "Beating River is like your mother waking you up with a kiss in the morning"
I
10) "I thought Berlusconi was coming and I ran into the cartonero Báez"
(one of his most memorable occurrences. Maradona was still a Boca player and that's how he portrayed Mauricio Macri, then president of the club, from whom he demanded reinforcements for the team )
.
Maradona's brain in the laboratory: Diego makes his head work harder
Researchers from CONICET and the University of Buenos Aires published a work in a high impact journal in this area (Brain Topography, of the so-called Q1, the most influential) about
how our brain processes idiomatic expressions and how it differs from understanding literal language.
The work was carried out on a state-of-the-art Magnetic Resonator used by the University of Buenos Aires and CONICET for research, with Mariana Bendersky at the helm, a neurologist, a doctor of medicine from the UBA, and an anatomy teacher "for over a thousand years. ", she says sympathetically, at the University of Buenos Aires," the one I love. "
The scientist says that the one who
instilled her love for neurosciences was her professor of Anatomy, Tomás Mascitti, who showed them his fantastic brain dissections
.
Then I began to see the clinical applications of neuroanatomy, patients "teach us" with the story of their symptoms and injuries.
Later the MRI appeared and I fell in love with the possibility of studying the anatomy of large numbers of healthy brains, even seeing them in action or while it is developing in the womb, it made me continue to investigate today, along with healthcare practice ".
Diego Maradona in front of the microphone, a constant in the life of the crack.
In the image, with Carlos Bilardo.
Says Bendersky about the procedure: "Healthy volunteers were asked to select one of 4 possible meanings of idiomatic expressions or literal sentences while undergoing functional MRI. Compared to literal language, idiomatic expressions set a network in motion. more extensive neuronal, involving both cerebral hemispheres, mainly the frontal and temporal lobes ".
Following that theory, and speaking in colloquial terms,
it could be said, without exaggeration, that Diego makes the head work more
.
The neurologist continues: "It is interesting,
when comparing the results with similar studies in other languages of the world, it was seen that the neural network is always the same, regardless of the language spoken.
That is, even if Chinese ideograms are used or written in backwards as in Hebrew, we all use the same neural machinery to understand language. "
Perhaps a good part of the immeasurable scope of the message in Maradona's words has a lot to do with that detail beyond that magnetism capable of inhibiting Russian President Vladimir Putin. And to generate in the Neapolitans -believers even esotericism- the perception that the hero of the city was (and is) capable of contacting San Gennaro, patron of that corner of southern Italy
.
It will be enough to walk a few blocks through Forcella, the most popular neighborhood in the city, to notice it.
Its omnipresence seems like the novel by Juan Rulfo,
Pedro Páramo
, where even the walls tell secrets or the beautiful Mexican film
Cocó
in which the characters do not die until they are forgotten.
We know, then, that Diego will never die.
And their phrases much less
.
It must also be said that it is thought that shapes language and not the other way around
, as some books such as
Orwell's
1984
or
Delany's
Babel 17
propose
, "based on the hypotheses of some linguists of that time," adds Bendersky.
In the last great interview that Maradona gave, the TyC Sports journalist, Matías Pellicioni, asked Diez, words more, words less:
-How do you do with the phrases you make up and they stay forever? Do you think about them? Do they come out? Do you write them down on a piece of paper?
-Nooooooo. I get out. It is so.
It is recalled that, beyond having
the title of Inspirational Teacher of the young people from the University of Oxford (the most hierarchical in the United Kingdom) Maradona's formal education did not exceed the sixth grade
. Capabilities are not lacking. Cherquis Bialo told it several times: "
Everything he did he did well, sing, dance, play tennis, learn Italian fast
(or" Neapolitan "as every time in the north some daring journalist questioned him about some idiomatic stumbling block). Fernando Signorini, who perhaps best knew how to interpret it, points out: "When Diego sets himself a goal, he transforms. You need the challenge. That is its true fuel. And challenged, he lets go of those words that spring up forever and
do not need a translator or an interpreter
"The Diego on the playing field was also (and still is in his words) a magician. Without a wand. Or with one that we cannot see.
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