Re: Spanish ll in different dialects
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 29, 2004, 13:25 |
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On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 12:53:02AM -0400, David Peterson wrote:
> <humor>
> " 'We', white man?"
> -Tanto to the Lone Ranger after the latter said, "Looks like we're
> surrounded!",
> upon discovering that they were surrounded by "Indians".</humor>
Nit: spelled "Tonto", despite being pronounced as an Americanized
version of /'tan.to/. I don't know if the use of the Spanish word for
"fool" was deliberate.
-Marcos, who had a dream the other night that Jay Silverheels really
wanted to be a classical musician
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