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Date:         Mon, 11 Sep 95 22:14:39 CDT
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From:         Joel Walker <JWALKER@ua1vm.ua.edu>
Subject:      Re: To mutual understanding

On Mon, 11 Sep 95 21:46:30 CDT William Abbott said: > De nada! ?Porque no?

Denada?? isn't that a big national park up in alaska??

and Porque no? whatsa matter with Pork? eh?? us RNa-types happen to LIKE Pork in its myriad forms.

and besides ... iffen this crew is gonna go headlong into Baja, it might be of some help to at least try to pick up a few phrases that will endear the speaker to the local native population, convincing them that, yes, the Norde Americanos (el Gringos) are truly a breed apart. :)

Via Con DOS, Y'all <as we used to say on the PC's> unca joel <who didn't take spanish in high school cause the teacher was a real flake> <who didn't take latin in high school cause the teacher was a real pisser> <who took english in high school cause i had to> <we didn't have any other languages taught in high school>


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