Re: Spanish education

Siyo!
(chuckling internally)  I was fortunate in my summer
in England to make all my language blunders--"pants",
"bloody war", etc--surrounded by Americans.  In fact,
if there was a problem with my trip, it was that there
were too many Americans.

Clint


--- John Cowan <jcowan@...> wrote:
> Clint Jackson Baker scripsit:
>
> > Did you know that "to catch a bus" in
> > Mexico means "to have sex with a baby" in Chile?
> > Dialect really is that important in Spanish.
>
> The English phrase "Mr. Jones walked in the street
> wearing
> only his pants" leaves him open to arrest for
> obstructing
> traffic in the U.S., but for public indecency in the
> U.K.
> Dialect really is that important in English.
>
> --
> John Cowan <jcowan@...>
> http://www.reutershealth.com
> I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,
> http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
> han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.
> --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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