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

    To look at what one would call Spanish-speakers
from a non-English perspective,
in Israeli Hebrew,  / sfaradi /  or "Spanish" refers to either
        1) someone from Spain
                or
        2) a descendent of the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492,
            who, today may speak one of a number of languages,
            none of them Spanish.
    To talk about Spanish-speaking people in general, AFAIK,
one must say "speakers of Spanish"  ( /dovre sfaradit/ ).
    There is, however, a common term for English-speakers in
Israeli Hebrew. No matter whether one is from the U.S.,
Canada, England, South Africa, Austrailia, etc., one is referred to
as an "Anglo-Saxen"  ( /anglo saksi/ ), or  sometimes  simply
"Anglo".  (The adjectival form of "Anglo" (= /angli/), though,
only refers to the English from England.)  The language of all
"Anglo-Saxens" is called /anglit/ or "English".

Dan Sulani

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