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pmlt wrote:
On 28 Jan 2004 19:04:36 +0100, Emilia wrote: DON"T GO!!! it's a scary, scary place. Ugly & scary. Ugly, scary AND dangerous!!!!! ??? I don't get it... Is there a 2nd meaning here? If YOU had found a perfect place, would YOU want it ruined by hordes of tourists? |
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 23:28:43 +0100, Magda
wrote: ... DON"T GO!!! it's a scary, scary place. Ugly & scary. Ugly, scary AND ... dangerous!!!!! ... ... ??? I don't get it... ... Is there a 2nd meaning here? You sense of humour needs refilling. ;-) indeed it does! ;-) |
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Following up to Emilia
Its gone on the list! I'll show SWMBO the website tonight to get an official decision :-) DON"T GO!!! it's a scary, scary place. Ugly & scary. Ugly, scary AND dangerous!!!!! Right cough Oh yes, I see now its horrible, oh yes and dangerous. -- Mike Reid "Art is the lie that reveals the truth" P.Picasso Walking, Wasdale, Thames path, London etc "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Spain, food and walking "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |
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"Reid" wrote in message ... Following up to Emilia Its gone on the list! I'll show SWMBO the website tonight to get an official decision :-) DON"T GO!!! it's a scary, scary place. Ugly & scary. Ugly, scary AND dangerous!!!!! Right cough Oh yes, I see now its horrible, oh yes and dangerous. -- Yes, I forgot to mention that you have to watch out for "land whales" who are known to climb up the cliffs and swallow up tourist in one gulp when they're least expecting it--best to stay home where it's safe! Lana |
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Following up to "szozu" hoppbunny at hotmail dot com
Yes, I forgot to mention that you have to watch out for "land whales" who are known to climb up the cliffs and swallow up tourist in one gulp when they're least expecting it--best to stay home where it's safe! and they all (to a man) refuse to serve Americans & Brits until they fully account for all the action of Bush and Blair since elected. -- Mike Reid "Art is the lie that reveals the truth" P.Picasso Walking, Wasdale, Thames path, London etc "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Spain, food and walking "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 20:34:50 +0100, Magda
wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 14:25:11 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, B arranged some electrons, so they looked like this : ... The present conjugation of "avere", has four forms that begin with ... "h". Are those the only four words, Magda? Precisely. I had a look in my ... Zingarelli, which has a page and a half of words that begin with "h", ... but all of them other than the forms of "avere" look as though they ... are of foreign origin. Some of the them are pretty embedded in the ... Italian language, though. My Zingarelli has gasp FIVE pages of "H", including hardware, harem, hezbollah, hidalgo, hippy, hors d'oeuvre, hybris... LOL You must have the unabridged; mine is a paperback. ----------- Barbara Vaughan My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup |
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Yes, when I said 'a few other countries', I was thinking of Liberia,
Kenya, Nigeria, & Ghana. Did not know about the various 'Z' countries. Used to be there was a sort of geographical split, the western part of Africa used English, the central part (French Equatorial Africa) used French, the eastern part (German East AFrica) used German, and the south Afrikaans. -- wf. B Vaughan wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:35:06 -0700, randee wrote: Other than South AFrica and a few other countries such as Sierra Leone, I don't think English is used much at all. I did find that the Sierra Leone version of English was much more difficult for me to understand than say, Glasgow English (also difficult for US ears). My wife spent several years in Africa and primarily used French in her travels through the country, except for South Africa (English and Afrikaans). There are many countries in Africa, other than South Africa and Sierra Leone, where English is more prevalent than French. Just to name a few that come to my mind: Nigeria, Ghana, Egypt, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia. I'm sure I've overlooked some. When we were in Zambia, we found English to be widely spoken, even outside the cities. We rode some long-distance busses in Zambia, and noticed that a large proportion of the other riders were speaking English among themselves. English seemed to be the lingua franca among people from different language groups, but we also saw families that spoke English among themselves. ----------- Barbara Vaughan My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup |
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Following up to Owain
I have heard that it is because the French attitude is that it is helpful to correct a non-native speaker's efforts, and they are therefore reticent to speak English because they expect to be corrected in the same way. I was reading a restaurant review and saw this:- "VALENCE, France - The first time we dined at the illustrious restaurant Pic, long the holder of three Michelin stars, was in the 1970s, part of a whirlwind gastronomic tour of France. Pic was on the schedule for Sunday dinner, but that morning as we tried to start our leased Renault parked near a church in Lyon, flames began to fly from the engine. ''Incendie!'' was the first word that came from our lips. When a man walked out of the church and came to our aid, the first thing he did was correct our French. This was not an ''incendie,'' he said, it was a ''petit feu.''" :-) -- Mike Reid "Art is the lie that reveals the truth" P.Picasso Walking, Wasdale, Thames path, London etc "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Spain, food and walking "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |
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pmlt wrote in message . ..
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 02:08:20 GMT, devil wrote: I believe this has to do also with Spanish being phonetically rather poor. Making it hard to acquire new sounds past a certain age. This is true for Castillan (the commonly called Spanish). For Catalan however it seems to be a phonetically richer language, especially in the vogals. If someone fluent in Catalan is reading this, can you confirm this? Indeed. Catalan has a wider range of phonems, such as the "vocal neutra" ( a mixture of the a&e vowels), Ll (sounds like York), and josep (like Jersey), not found in Castilian. Catalan, being closer to the occitan language (almost extinct now), sounds much like French& Italian. In fact, castilian is the only language from the latin branch that sounds "harsh" . It doesn't feature that 'melodic' tone that romanian, catalan or portuguese have, for instance. you may as well ask in soc.culture catalan if you are really interested. |
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