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  • #91
    Originally posted by Timexwatch

    Spanish is wonderful for the ambiguity of the language and the effect regional variations can bring into a work. I guess one could compare it to how Twain brought in the linguistic uniqueness of the South in many of his novels...
    Regional variations or dialects, are something to cherish. In a world where you're supposed to communicate globally and get impressions from all over the world in a matter of seconds, having a regional dialect to identify yourself with is just great.
    It's candy. Surely there are more important things the NAACP could be boycotting. If the candy were shaped like a burning cross or a black man made of regular chocolate being dragged behind a truck made of white chocolate I could understand the outrage and would share it. - Drosedars

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    • #92
      Hehe, that sounds kinda funny.

      The only word that distinguishes where I'm from is "fer" and I'm trying to get rid of it. Although, I'm sure you'd be able to tell I'm American, just not where I'm from other than not the South and not New England.
      I never know their names, But i smile just the same
      New faces...Strange places,
      Most everything i see, Becomes a blur to me
      -Grandaddy, "The Final Push to the Sum"

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      • #93
        "Gabriel Garcia Marquez"

        That's who I was thinking of! The magical realism guy...

        And who wrote Kiss of the Spider Woman? Pueg? Something like that...
        "Wait a minute..this isn''t FAUX dive, it's just a DIVE!"
        "...Mangy dog staggering about, looking vainly for a place to die."
        "sauna stories? There are no 'sauna stories'.. I mean.. sauna is sauna. You do by the laws of sauna." -P.

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        • #94
          "Oh, he thinks the language is crap, he's a racist. Wawawawawa. Wiggy must be a nazi too. What an evil evil man he is!"
          Dont worry, Wiggy, you are no an evil man, you are only mental delayed man.

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          • #95
            Originally posted by El Awrence
            But, oh, right, you're some ignorant American who thinks that American culture is the only worthwhile thing and when someone points at anything outside of the US on maps you probably reply "there be dragons"...
            Actually, it's said with more of a pirate accent. "Thar be dragons, matey!"

            I was curious if the mods would be willing to tell us the region that Wiggy is from. I'm just curious to see if he actually is from the United States, or if he's just some DL from elsewhere. There are several online services that can tell you the physical location of an IP.
            John Brown did nothing wrong.

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            • #96


              Some top notch trolling here.
              “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.â€
              - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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              • #97
                Never heard of the epic El Pollo Diablo?
                The Devil Chicken?!?!?
                Seems Spanish to me... those damn Mexicans... first NAFTA now this...



                [blue]Linear-Polygrahpic-Aerodynamic-Synthetics will save the world!![/blue]

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                • #98
                  Only a example! And it's on Harvard Book Store's 100 Favorite Titles, in the TOP FOUR
                  What a ****ing coincidence!

                  And Wiglaf, you've never heard of Don Quijote? One Hundred Years of Solitude? Hoyyyyy you're ignorant.
                  You're comparing DQ to the ancient works of Homer?

                  Dont worry, Wiggy, you are no an evil man, you are only mental delayed man.
                  Quick tip to those attempting to look remotely intelligent: it's "not" in this case. Don't use "no" like that again please.

                  I was curious if the mods would be willing to tell us the region that Wiggy is from. I'm just curious to see if he actually is from the United States, or if he's just some DL from elsewhere. There are several online services that can tell you the physical location of an IP.
                  They know I'm legit and from the US.

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                  • #99
                    All Homer did was write about a siege and the return of a man back to his home. He's terribly overrated. His only real claim to fame is that it's still known after 2.500 years. I'd still think that, if we were to analyse it as literature, Don Quijote's relevance and purpose is much more significant that Homer's epics.

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                    • #100
                      "You're comparing DQ to the ancient works of Homer?"

                      Why not?

                      You think oldest 'wins' or something?

                      EDIT: "All Homer did was write about a siege and the return of a man back to his home."

                      yeah that's all, all those times when Achilles was 'tearing at his breast' or when Homer takes some time to muse about the loss of young men to the 'pitiless bronze', or the poetic imagery (the wine-dark sea, Godlike Sarpedon) that was all just fluff, find better stuff in the last Harry Potter...

                      We all known Wiglaf is a Boobus Maximus, but don't overeact.
                      "Wait a minute..this isn''t FAUX dive, it's just a DIVE!"
                      "...Mangy dog staggering about, looking vainly for a place to die."
                      "sauna stories? There are no 'sauna stories'.. I mean.. sauna is sauna. You do by the laws of sauna." -P.

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                      • #101
                        In fact, Wiglaf, are you even familiar with the texts of the works by Homer?

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                        • #102
                          You think oldest 'wins' or something?
                          The best wins. Don is ultimately, after all the dust settles and generations pass, crap.

                          And El, you got me.

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                          • #103
                            And Wiglaf, you've never heard of ... One Hundred Years of Solitude?

                            I've never heard of One Hundred Years of Solitude. I hope that doesn't make me stupid.
                            I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
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                            • #104
                              "You got me?" what kind of a pathetic little reply is that?

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                              • #105
                                I take it you can't understand the phrase's intended meaning, El?

                                Like a ****ing wall. All of you.

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