"Flip side"
So I am writing about Border Spanish for one of my classes, and in it I am also needing to mention "border English," which I want to describe as the "flip side" of border Spanish (basically instead of English influencing Spanish, it's Spanish influencing English). I tried the machine translator, but all it gave me was "cara B," which doesn't strike me as being very professional sounding. I know "el opuesto" and "lo contrario" are options, but the idea doesn't strike me as opposites exactly, rather as something going hand in hand, just in different directions. Any suggestions? Maybe "cara B" really wouldn't sound as corny to natives as it sounds to me, but even "la otra cara" sounds better to me than "cara B," but I don't know if that would make sense. Thanks for the help!
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"Flip side" ..... "Cara B / Lado B" are original terms from the recording industry when we had records that had two sides. "Flip side" (an idiom of an idiom in your context) however would be "al lado opuesto" or even "al otro lado", which would be a good play on words for your paper because when people from northern Mexico talk about the USA they say "el otro lado" (de la frontera).
The "flip side" of a record is the "Cara B"
"Flip side" is some what slangy English, and it means "the opposite side." So what you suggested about "el lado opuesto" or "lo contriaro" depending on what you want to say will probably do. Even "el revés" or "al revés" may do dependin on what the context is.
This is another kind of flip.
