Re: Articles with propper names (was RE: Same name (was ...))

> Eric Christopherson wrote:
>
> At 07:13 PM 4/27/2000, Carlos wrote:
> > > Irina Rempt wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Carlos Eugenio Thompson (EDC) wrote:
> > >
> > > > All dialects uses article (or posesive pronoun) with titles.
> > >
> > > Also when a name is used with the title, like "the doctor Jones"?
> > >
> >Yes.  Except for don/doña or titles with posesive pronoun already in
> >(_misia_, _usia_), names with titles uses a definite article or a
> posesive
> >pronoun:
>
> What are misia and usia?
>
misia is probably _mi señora_ (milady), and is very common speech in rural
areas around Bogota.
usia is _su señoría_ (your honour...how would you call a judge?), and I
assume is common in Chile (is common in Condorito jokes ;D ).

About the use of the article in personal names it is probably derogatory in
Mexican dialect... is actually somehow derogatory in my dialect too; but is
the standard usage in Andean (Quechua influenced) dialects.

-- Carlos Th

> Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo