On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 10:07:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On 13 Oct 00 at 20:26, Arachne4Dos wrote:
>
>>
>> Spanish grammar has around 14 tenses as I remember, so perhaps we
>> should be thankful English has so (by comparison) few! ISTR names
>> along the lines of "Post indicative future participles" and so on.
>>I
>> was just glad that Rafael, my tutor said,
>>
>> "Forget all that rubbish, just use the present, past and possibly
>>the
>> future tenses on occasion, and the Spanish people will understand
>>
>> and love you for it"
>>
>> and I've taken his advice ever since. He was right, by the way,
>>most
>> Spanish speakers love to hear the Scots mangling their
>> pronunciations, apparently we sound verrrrry sexy with it - - - or
>> was that funnnnny? I can never quite remember.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Mel
>>
>> >From Bonnie Scotland
>> EDINBURGH, A Capital City!
>>
>>
>> --from Mel Evans, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
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>Mel:
>
>Your post makes me remember when I lived in your magnificent city.
>
>I was born in Argentina in 1948. I studied in an english (british)
>school in Rosario, were I continue to live.
>In 1972, with an electronic engineer title, I went to work for
>one year with Hewlet Packard in South Queensferry.
>We lived at 60 Pilrigh Str. Edingburg
>
>My wife came with me, she was an english language teacher, she ended
>working for The Scotsman.
>
>The funny thing was that when we took our first train from London to
>Edinburgh, we could not believe how many Russians were travelling in
>the same train, we could not understand why they were so happy, we
>could not understand what they were talking.
>
>After one hour, we discovered that they were all scottish fans
>returning from a rugby match against those poor english.
>
>And as Spanish speakers, I can tell you that we loved how you
>pronounced your english. We loved your city and your country.
>
>Alec
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>Alejandro Lieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Rosario Argentina
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Hey Alec,
Good to hear from you and thanks about Edinburgh. In turn (if the
lottery comes up with my numbers) I would love to visit your country.
I know thw HP plant in S. Queensferry, I am an employee of
ScottishPower (elecricity supply company) and I am there on a fairly
regular basis monitoring supply quality.
Amazing how this world is shrinking through the Internet, one can
only hope we all begin to see each other as friends, despite any
differences in culture and so on.
Regards
Mel
--from Mel Evans, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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