Author: Pete Galati
Date: 13:56:45 10/29/99
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On October 29, 1999 at 16:30:52, Fernando Villegas wrote: >On October 29, 1999 at 16:02:15, robert michelena wrote: > >>Fernando, can you repeat your tirade in English ? >Oh, I am so sorry, but I was not born in mighty USA or ex mighty UK, but in a >hispanic country. I am chilean, my dear friend, and in Chile we talk Spanish. So >english is not my native tongue and, beside that, I wrote the post in a hurry >without time to correct and fix gramatical, ortographical, etc., mistakes to >avoid you the trouble to read it "as it was". I will try hard next time. >Nevertheless, I think you can understand my point. I, too, make a painful >effort to translate to logical-latin-exhaustive and elegant -Freud learned it >just to read in original El Quijote- lovely spanish tongue the sometimes a >little bit dry and too much short expressions of your wonderful language. >Love and peace in any tongue. >fernando The post was very coherent, the sarcasm worked very well in English, and the "Villegas Law of Professional Chess Programs" was right on the money. But I got a question, does the food chile actually come FROM Chile originally? I was just noticing that there is no food called usa. Pete
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