Why Is Spanish So Damn Insignificant?

[TCO]

Re: Why Is Spanish So Damn Insignificant?

Originally posted by Wiglaf
The language has had no great works of literature, at all, ever. English has had several and will continue to. Ancient languages that so many Spanish-speaking people tend to defame, like Greek or Latin, have stood the test of time - mainly due to the fact that they housed some of the best stories and epics known to man. How can those same bastard critics then claim that Spanish is the hot new language, and that everything else is on the way out for some reason?

I look forward to the El Illiado.

Cervantes.

[TCO]

Originally posted by LTEC!


Most probably none that you know of. The US Board of Education has real problems with students learning English, why would they bother letting them know there are in fact other worthwhile languages to learn?

Wig...a more interesting discussion would be which language has more great literature, "English or Spanish"? Would be interesting to hear a French or German person's opinion. Because for them, both would be read in translation.

I have read more French and German literature than Spanish lit. (all in translation) But to say there is nothing worthwhile in Spanish is silly. Of course you are a silly boy...

[TCO]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Possibly. I'm about to hang an English-only sign out my window. Call Amnesty International.

Little Kitty, trolling in real life. Would be funny to see such a sign. Of course...I like tryhing out my high school French when in Montreal. Just don't like French girls who have an attitude against English speakers. Like the ones who don't...

[KrazyHorse]

Just don't like French girls who have an attitude against English speakers. Like the ones who don't...

There's plenty of it on the other side too. I dumped an old girlfriend of mine for making a thoroughly sickening "french pepper" comment, not realising that my mother is French.

[KrazyHorse]

For some reason, though, we seem to have avoided most of the violence that's often associated with large minority groups. There have been a few instances, but it's almost entirely limited to vandalism of the "maudits Anglais" and "FLQ" type.

[ZoboZeWarrior]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Anyhow, this is pointless. The only language whose literature sucks almost uniformly is French.

Yes ? Why ?

[ZoboZeWarrior]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Ironically, lingua franca litterally means "French language." The world's French language is English.

World chnages through time ...

[Bereta_Eder]

KrazyHorse, I'm sure you're trolling

If you're not then

From Voltaire onward you're missing a lot

Even Koudera (sp?) wrote his last novel in french (vradytita=slowness?).

BTW it's a great book and I recommend it fully to anyone who wishes to wake up on how we are living


Kublai, yes it was Neruda. Thanks.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
There's plenty of it on the other side too. I dumped an old girlfriend of mine for making a thoroughly sickening "french pepper" comment, not realising that my mother is French.

French pepper?

[Jay Bee]

Ironically, lingua franca litterally means "French language." The world's French language is English.

Oh come on, you can't be talking seriously. "Lingua franca" means "language without barriers". In some languages a certain word may have more than one meaning. I thought it also happens in English, but perhaps I am wrong...


Wiglaf dear, Mr Naipaul and I allow you to use mi sig.

[chequita guevara]

I said the literal translation.

lingua = tongue
franca = of the Franks, i.e., the French

It's Latin.

And it was a joke.

[Shaka Naldur]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
What a tragedy Giancarlo Alas I don't think this is the case yet. We should be so lucky

Shaka, a question. In English we refer to it as 'Don Quixote' and you refer to it as 'Don Quijote'. Why the hell do we use an 'x' when it would appear that the Spanish don't?

el awrence is correct,
now we call it "Don Quijote"

[Jay Bee]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Shaka, a question. In English we refer to it as 'Don Quixote' and you refer to it as 'Don Quijote'. Why the hell do we use an 'x' when it would appear that the Spanish don't?

Texas/Tejas, México/Méjico... there are so many examples. Americans and Mexicans got to keep the old spelling, whereas in Spain it changed. Pronunciation is still the same though.


Gianni, thanks so much for including me in your sig. I am honored Now, if you wrote something meaninful... that would be cojonut, man. But I know it's too much to ask. I thought that stupidity had been settled long ago

[Dr. Nick]

If he wrote something coxonut!

[MichaeltheGreat]

Apparently Wiggy the troll has returned to the dark space under the bridge from whence he came.

I'd be tempted to ban him, but such a pathetic degree of ignorance (or such a pathetic need for attention to inspire such an act) is more pitiable than punishable.

If the Wiggy-troll BS keeps up, he will find himself needing to get a life for a week or two.