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From: pv_troia@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Paolo V Troia-Cancio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What's ST mean?
Message-ID: <2855@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 9 Oct 89 20:25:27 GMT
References: <1111@nigel.udel.EDU> <4611@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: pv_troia@jhunix.UUCP (Paolo V Troia-Cancio)
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In article <4611@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> don@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Donald R Lloyd) writes:
>In article <1111@nigel.udel.EDU> C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh) writes:
>>As for 'amiga', I believe it is Spanish for 'friend' and more specifically
>>it is a 'female friend'.  'Amigo' is a 'male friend'.  While we're at it,
>>'Diga' means 'speak'.
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>    Well, yes, you're right about the spanish... but I think in this case the
>word 'amiga' is probably italian, since Amiga was an italian company (I think).
>I'm pretty sure the word exists in both languages, since they're fairly similar
>to each other.
      In Italian, the word for 'female friend' is 'amica', which is
certainly very similar to the Spanish word 'amiga', but not the same.