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From: hummel@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What's ST mean?
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Date: 6 Oct 89 09:41:01 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!hummel    Oct  4 23:02:00 1989


Written  3:22 pm  Oct  4, 1989 by cdouty@jarthur.Claremont.EDU in comp.sys.amiga:
>In article <1228@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU> pa1329@sdcc13.ucsd.edu.UUCP (pa1329) writes:
>>What is amiga?   Amiga is the ultimate game machine.  In other
>>words, Amiga is the ultimate junk.
>
>Amiga means friend [ ... ] Ask the nice people working there where a 
>Spanish-English dictionary is.  [ ... ] Look up "amiga" and "amigo."

Amiga (or should I say "Lorraine"?) - the computer - is the most advanced 
and revolutionary personal computer design of this decade.  Amiga - the 
name, however, is the cause of some consternation.  With Commodore doing
business in Latin America, I worry of a certain slang meaning of the word
"amiga" that may cause some trouble.  I hope this doesn't come across as
sounding crass, but some native Spanish speaker please correct me if "amiga"
hasn't also been used colloquially to refer to a woman's monthly "friend".

                                 < Lionel the cringing gringo
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