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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> >I am writing this to you in two parts because I wrote the above as a
> draft this morning.  This evening, I see that we are having a
> conversation concerning Spanish profanities.<G>

The funny thing is, I seriously doubt Moon knows want "pendejo" literally 
means and why that literal meaning is supposed to be an insult.


>> Moon, if you are working side by side with someone, how can you claim to
> know them if you do not speak their language? 

Of course, the answer is you can't.  And you discerned the reason for my 
comment.  We ignorant backwoods Southerners can't possibly have had any deep 
revealing interactions with other cultures that compare with telling someone 
to 
pitch the horse some hay.  

And, Bev, as you know Spanish is completely phonetic.  There is no such thing 
as being literate in another language (such as English), being able to speak 
Spanish, and not being able to also read and write Spanish.

As you read, it was a simple but round about way to ask a simple, non 
threatening, question. The remonstration that one would simply not be 
bothered with 
it, but instead respond with a gutter vulgarism, pretty much determines what 
we 
are dealing with in this case.

This turn of the thread began with Moon saying: "... I ... have had  
slightly broader experience than you in this matter."   And yet becomes 
'enoja' when given the opportunity to demonstrate same. ..... Parece que en 
este 
caso 'desconcertada' se hace 'enoja'

Bastante dicho!

James