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

fflores@arnet.com.ar writes:
>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.
I remember that my Spanish teacher was saying that everyone outside of
Castille calls it Castellano, and not Spanish.=20

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>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... ;-)
I remember her saying that too. People will fiercly protest that they are
not spaniard but valenciano, asturiano, catalano, etc. She says there's a
fierce love / hate thing between each province. =20

I think of all the accents in spain, the southern spanish accents the
funniest (they often sound like they drop the "s" at the ends of words,
and it almost becomes a sort of aspirated sound. For instance, Vosotros
would sound sort of like "vosotroh", paises would sound like "paiseh". I
remember sitting in Spanish class listening to a video where the speaker
was Sevilleno and having a hard time understanding what he was saying =3D=
).=20




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