Re: FRI Computers in Spanish
From: Efrain Ramirez (eramirezt@coqui.net)
Sun Mar 12 15:18:21 2006
I'll take that as a compliment :)!!!! See you private E-mail :)
Ef
At Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Anna Meenan, MD wrote:
>
>Our translator, who is Mexican, cracked me up one day. She was talking
>to a patient on the phone and when she hung up she said, "That lady
>drives me crazy. I can't understand a word she says. She talks so
>fast." The patient was from Puerto Rico.
>
>Ana Meenan, MD
>
>At Sat, 11 Mar 2006, Gerald P. Rodríguez wrote:
>>
>>Well, the Spanish speaking universe is as at least as diverse as the English
>>speaking one. I can as little understand street Liverpool English as I can
>>understand street Cuban Spanish. I am in the process of reading Cervantes'
>>"don Quixote" in the original Spanish and I find it as difficult, if not
>>more, than reading Shakespeare.
>>
>>Gerald P. Rodríguez, M.D., FACOG
>>Santa Fe
>>
>>>>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Efrain Ramirez" <eramirezt@coqui.net>
>>To: "Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L" <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net>
>>Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 10:04 PM
>>Subject: Re: FRI Computers in Spanish
>>
>>> Yes also here -"le está dando el pecho" - "she is breast feeding" ...
>>>
>>> Ef
>>>
>>>>At Sat, 11 Mar 2006, Meenan, Anna, Kevin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>The ladies in our clinic call them "pechos" which
>>>>I know means more like chest than breast, but
>>>>that's what they say here in the midwest.
>>>>
>>>>Ana Meenan, MD
>>>>
>>>>>Breasts are "los senos" - masculine - the more vulgar "tits" would be
>>>>>"tetas" - femenine - and so on...go figure.....
>>>>>
>>>>>Ef
>>>>>
>>>>> At Sat, 11 Mar 2006, Anna Meenan, MD wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Speaking of masculine v. feminine nouns, perhaps you or Ef could answer
>>>>>>a question I posed to my translator in prenatal clinic the other day:
>>>>>>El utero? (as opposed to la utera?) How can uterus, of all things, be a
>>>>>>MASCULINE noun? No comprendo.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Ana Meenan, MD
>>>>>>
>>>>>>At Sat, 11 Mar 2006, DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Maybe an oldie, but still muy bueno.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Pepe
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Ý
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ý
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A Spanish teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike
>>>>>>>English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>"House" for instance, is feminine: "la casa."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>"Pencil," however, is masculine: "el lapiz."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>A student asked, "What gender is 'computer'?"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two
>>>>>>>groups,
>>>>>>>male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether
>>>>>>>"computer"
>>>>>>>should be a masculine or a feminine noun.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>gender ("la computadora"), because:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic;
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is
>>>>>>>incomprehensible to everyone else;
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>3 Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for
>>>>>>>possible
>>>>>>>later retrieval; and
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending
>>>>>>>half
>>>>>>>your paycheck on accessories for it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>(THIS GETS BETTER!)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>l
>>>>>>>computador"), because:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>1 In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on;
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves;
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they
>>>>>>>ARE
>>>>>>>the problem; and
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a
>>>>>>>littl
>>>>>>>longer, you could have gotten a better model.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>The women won.
>>>>>
>>>>>--
>>>>>ě The greatest obstacle to knowledge is not ignorance,
>>>>>it is the illusion of knowledge.î Daniel J. Boorstin - Historian
>>>
>>> --
>>> " The greatest obstacle to knowledge is not ignorance,
>>> it is the illusion of knowledge." Daniel J. Boorstin - Historian
>>>
--
“ The greatest obstacle to knowledge is not ignorance,
it is the illusion of knowledge.” Daniel J. Boorstin - Historian
