Re: Judajca
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 28, 2002, 18:56 |
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At 18:54 2002-08-25 +0200, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:
>On Aug/24/2002, BP Jonsson wrote:
>
> > Not exactly a coincidence, actually! _Lucus_ means "grove" or "thicket" in
> > Latin. It also happens to be the cognate of the Sanskrit word for "world"!
>
> Nice. It's said that it was some kind of "holy grove",
Spot on!
> > Welcome to the list, then. Am I guessing right that you are in Portugal?
>
> Well, this could bear a long explanation, not empty of political
>and nationalistic tones, but to make it short: no :-)
>
> I'm from Galicia, which is right at the top of Portugal, but
>part of Spain.
I know about the situation. A little like Bohuslän, where I come from,
which used to be part of Norway until the 17. century. For some reason
people there don't know/aren't interested in the fact tho. My father used
to say that standard Norwegian and standard Swedish suit our dialect
equally bad, which is perhaps part of the explanation.
/BP 8^)>
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