Path: csiph.com!goblin2!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!panix!not-for-mail From: jolomo@gmail.com (Joe Morris) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Too much for one lifetime? :-) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 19:17:45 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Bozo Central in Atlanta Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <2113988243.633055128.916671.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <87im7lk817.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> <202855318.633307912.602706.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <87pn1sgyl0.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> <77m01g1f5mpdnht60ih6ka5eqodn4bts1v@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1611688665 7563 166.84.1.3 (26 Jan 2021 19:17:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 19:17:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/2.4.4-20191224 ("Millburn") (NetBSD/9.0 (amd64)) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:216549 Not so long ago, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2021-01-26, JimP wrote: > > In US high schools we were taught Castilliano Spanish. A closer to > > formal Spanish, I have been told. I know that when I tried to use what > > I remembered when my ship pulling into Barcelona, I was told they > > couldn't understand me. Then someone pointed out, in English, I was > > speaking a version of Spanish common in one province of Spain. > > > > I have no idea why we weren't taught something we could use. > By the same token, Canadian schools taught Parisian French. > Many people felt we should be taught Quebec French, although > there was some concern that we might all sink into some sort > of filthy lower-class joual. When I was growing up in Texas, they taught Castillian Spanish instead of what the locals spoke. I took Latin instead :) -- Joe Morris jolomo@gmail.com