Re: CHAT: I need help with the concept "New World Spanish"

Padraic Brown scripsit:

> I'd be interested in knowing your reasons for
> propagating the "New World" v. "Old World" Spanish.
> Maybe _I'm_ wrong and it is quite meaningful!
At the moment, I have two groups to deal with.  One claims that their
written Spanish is acceptable anywhere in the Americas (but they make
no claims about Spain); the second group claims that the writings of
the first group are not acceptable in Spain.  Since we are paying
both groups for their respective expertise, I am loath to believe
that either one is wrong.  How, then, am I to label the output of
the first group if "New World Spanish" does not exist?

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Promises become binding when there is a meeting of the minds and consideration
is exchanged. So it was at King's Bench in common law England; so it was
under the common law in the American colonies; so it was through more than
two centuries of jurisprudence in this country; and so it is today.
       --_Specht v. Netscape_

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