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

Tem Sat, 19 Jun 1999 20:57:55 -0300, FFlores <fflores@...>
skribis:

>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.
Well, here in Spain we use both nouns indistinctly. The form
_castellano_ exists just because it was in Castilla where Spanish
language developed, while the rest of Iberia spoke other romance
languages which still pervive in their respective regions. However, it
was Castilian (castellano) which got to become spread all over the
peninsula and attain the status of national language of Spain (and
later of other countries in the Americas).=20

>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... ;-)
Well, if sometime I go to Argentina, I'll have no problem with you
calling me _gallego_... for the simple reason that I'm indeed a
Galician gallego! ;-)


Saludos,
Marcos