Re: THEORY: Spanish was Re: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation

Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> wrote:
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> On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Carlos Thompson wrote:
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> > Irina wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Probably not smart, but usual; cf. "English", "Dutch", "Spanish",
> > > "Valdyan".
> >
> > hm? Spanish? Who are the Spanish?  I know the Spaniards around there =
and we
> > Colombians, Argentinans, Mexicans, etc. at this side of the pond...
> >
> > -- Carlos
> >
Ditto. The name of the language is also a curious thing.
I don't know what they call it in Spain, but here it's
more _castellano_ (Castilian) than _espa=F1ol_ (Spanish).
Castilla, Spain, is probably one of the places from where=20
most of the Conquistadores came, but I don't know.

And over here we call the Spaniards _gallegos_ (from Galicia,
a province of Spain where they speak Spanish but also Galego,
their own language). The Spaniards from other provinces get
mad over this -- they are not _gallegos_, they say, but
_castellanos_, _aragoneses_, _asturianos_, or whatever... ;-)

(This localistic issue applies to me too, but regarding my
city vs. my province -- I'm not _santafesino_, I'm _rosarino_!).


--Pablo Flores