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Subject: [Leica] Languages/dialects
From: lluisripollphotography at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 19:59:00 +0200
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I completely agree your opinion about Spain

Un abrazo
Lluis

El 11/05/2014, a las 16:54, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> 
escribi?:

> While it is true that the US has English and Spanish as the two main 
> languages, the variations in the way English is spoken is huge as well, 
> even if they are not formally recognized as different dialects. When I 
> lived in Buffalo, I was 100% fluent in English, meaning the British and NE 
> US variety; but I could not understand people in South Carolina when we 
> stopped at a rest area on our way to Florida.
> 
> Also keep in mind that Spain was unified only in the 15th century; prior 
> to that it was a bunch of separate kingdoms, and so the regional 
> identities have remained. And I suspect that until the 20th century most 
> people never left the town or the province they lived in.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nathan
> 
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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> 
> YNWA
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> On May 11, 2014, at 3:42 PM, Howard Ritter wrote:
> 
>> Thanks, Nathan. I'm always intrigued and fascinated by the existence of 
>> dialectical differences and linguistic regions within European countries 
>> that nominally have a single official or characteristic language, a 
>> phenomenon so unfamiliar to us USians.
>> 
>> ?howard
>> 
>> On May 11, 2014, at 1:21 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks Howard. All the signs in Busot are in Valenciano, a local dialect 
>>> of Catalan and the official language in the Comunitat Valenciana, to 
>>> which Alicante belongs. In the bigger towns like Alicante, signs are in 
>>> both Spanish and Valenciano; but in small places like Busot, especially 
>>> inland, they are in Valenciano only.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Nathan
>> 
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