He or she who is different from the one who speaks or is pointed out is mentioned as another.
Another is a concept that is understood from the position that a person or an object occupies within a certain expression. The other thing is what is different from what is spoken : the notion, therefore, can only be understood within a context .
For example: “My brother is not the blonde boy; He is the other boy who appears in the photo” , “I don't like how I am dressed: could you hand me the other pants that I left on the bed” , “Please come back another time as I am busy now” .
In the case of the first example, the “other” is a person who appears in a photograph and who is not the brother of the person speaking. Something similar can be said regarding the second example: the “other pants” is a different one than the one being used by the person expressing the phrase. In the third example, a woman maintains that the current moment is not appropriate to respond to the concern or attend to her interlocutor, so she asks him to return later.
About the other
When talking about "the other" , there is not necessarily a precise or particular reference to a person; "The other" is our environment, the individuals around us, the rest of society .
As living beings that occupy a small space on the surface of a planet inhabited by billions of individuals, both animals and plants, it is very important to always keep this figure in mind so as not to make decisions that affect the freedom of others.
The other is someone external or alien.
The importance of empathy
A concept related to our perception of others is empathy . It can be defined as our cognitive ability to perceive what another individual may feel, or as the action of participating on an emotional level in a reality that affects another. In popular language, empathy is understood as the ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes, trying to understand their problems through a deep effort to think and feel like them.
In an ideal world, empathy would be part of our daily lives, but we are still very far from a reality in which consideration for other people's problems is one of our basic traits. We are going through a time in which materialism and vanity reign: we work incessantly to buy everything the market dictates to us and we expose ourselves on social networks so that our environment can see us at all times.
More uses of the term other
The adjective other can also be used, along with various nouns associated with a temporal notion, to something that happened in the near past or that will happen in the following way: “The other morning I also heard strange noises,” “I forgot to tell you that the other day I was to have lunch with López” , “Let's do this: let's talk again next week and see how the matter progressed, is that okay?” .
When a person changes a lot in their behavior or appearance, it can be said that they seem like “another” individual: “Since she left professional sports, she is another Gabriela Sabatini: more talkative and friendly,” “You are very skinny! “You have changed so much since the last time we saw each other that you seem like someone else.”
a rock band
In Argentina, there is an alternative rock band called "El Otro Yo" which has explored various genres since its formation in the late 80s . He was born in Temperley , a Buenos Aires town in Lomas de Zamora , as a result of the passion that Cristian and María Fernanda Aldana felt for music . From a very young age they had explored their musicality with a guitar owned by their father, a tango and bolero singer, and with a Gem organ. Thanks to the influence of their mother, who was a poet, they also ventured into songwriting, which gave them independence and a well-defined personality.
In 2019 , Cristian Aldana was sentenced to prison for sexual abuse, corruption of minors and statutory rape. Since then, El Otro Yo remains active with María Fernanda as leader.