[lit-ideas] Don't Cry For Me, Argentina
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 15:41:36 EST
My last post today, so don't keep provoking me!
In a message dated 1/4/2010 3:14:07 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
our own J. L. Speranza is of the Argentinean “rich.” And since that must
be true if the writer of the article is being accurate, I wonder why Geary
(who hates the rich) likes Speranza.
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Canadian Americans? What do they know about _anything_? I don't think we
have ONE Canadian born Canadian on this list! Well, maybe Stone.
Anyway, what Helm should wonder is
>why Speranza _likes_ Geary, in any case!
Some law of reciprocity.
Incidentally, the Argentines I know (which are a few) _hate_
"Argentinean", and even "Argentinian". "It makes us sound too much like
Palestinians,
which we are _not_.
In the good old days it was always (or allways, as I prefer) "Buenos
Ayres" spelt with an 'y' (to spell it with an "i", in English, is _cheap_; and
"The Argentine". This is meant to be short for "The Argentine Republic" or
something. Thus
J. L. Speranza, Esq.
La Recoleta
Buenos Ayres
The Argentine
----- "He's no filthy rich; he's just filthy".
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