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Re: CHAT Easter & East (was: Country Related: Christmas)

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 23, 1998, 21:37
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998 10:57:44 -0500 Carlos Thompson
<cthompso@...> writes:
>Padraic Brown wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Raymond A. Brown wrote: >> > >> > Glad to here that 'ponente' has wider currency than Italy :) >> > >> > Does Latin America also use 'levante'?
>I've never heard "levante" but in some literature, and the adjectival >form "levantino" for refering to the Near East middle edge culture. >-- >Carlos Eugenio Thompson Pinzsn
Could that be referring to the "Levantine" culture(?)/area of "the Levant"? I've never actually gotten where exactly that is...Israel? the Fertile Crescent? -Stephen (Steg) ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]