09-20-2004, 09:42 AM
and noting the varied interpretations of a "short-for-me" post, your translation is the closest to the intent.
You win: a +1 Mana Large Charm!! Weee Hoooo!
As to the borders and nationalities: No, Madam Ducky, I am NOT a foreigner. I was born in the United States, of parents who were born in the United States, one of whose mother was an immigrant, the other not, and I am an American. No Hyphen. Composite 'Merkin.
If you want to drag the "we are all foreigners" wheeze back to the bronze age, then there is no such thing as a Chilean: foreigners all!
Chile is what the Chileans made it, and make it. The fact that the imported cultural standards trumped the previous is about as surprising as the growing use of Latin in Gaul, after the Romans conquered it, yielding a corrupted mongrel language of blended Latin and Germanic (Frankish) and even Celtic roots: French.
History moves forward, with time. Change never stops, to which I will add that entropy is continuous. B)
Occhi
You win: a +1 Mana Large Charm!! Weee Hoooo!
As to the borders and nationalities: No, Madam Ducky, I am NOT a foreigner. I was born in the United States, of parents who were born in the United States, one of whose mother was an immigrant, the other not, and I am an American. No Hyphen. Composite 'Merkin.
If you want to drag the "we are all foreigners" wheeze back to the bronze age, then there is no such thing as a Chilean: foreigners all!
Chile is what the Chileans made it, and make it. The fact that the imported cultural standards trumped the previous is about as surprising as the growing use of Latin in Gaul, after the Romans conquered it, yielding a corrupted mongrel language of blended Latin and Germanic (Frankish) and even Celtic roots: French.
History moves forward, with time. Change never stops, to which I will add that entropy is continuous. B)
Occhi
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete