[Magdalen] Current Events.

ME Michaud michaudme at gmail.com
Thu May 2 08:54:37 UTC 2019


A friend's daughter got a job with the WHO.
She'd studied Spanish in high school and in college and had lived in Peru.
The WHO sent her to accent remediation classes.

OTOH a Spanish-speaking friend assures me that Cuban Spanish is quiet
elegant.
Colonies!
A friend who grew up in Paris tells me the most beautiful French she hears
is spoken by older people from Congo.
-M


On Wednesday, May 1, 2019, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:

> A few years ago, I had to get a sales proposal translated into Spanish by
> our translation department in Costa Rica. I remembered only at the last
> minute to tell them it needed to be "Spanish as spoken/written by people in
> Madrid," as that's where the prospective client was
>


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