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From: consp11@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Optimist Prime)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What's ST mean?
Message-ID: <2507@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
Date: 12 Oct 89 05:09:47 GMT
References: <1111@nigel.udel.EDU> <339@enea.se>
Reply-To: consp11@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu.cc.binghamton.edu (Optimist Prime)
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In article <339@enea.se> tope@helios.se (Tommy Petersson) writes:
>Is tre any native Spanish-speaking on the net? I wonder if there is
>such a word as 'amiga' in Spanish. Amigo is male friend, and we always
>think of our Amiga at home as a female friend, but I don't really think
>it's a real word. The ending of words with the letter 'a' is an indication
>of 'femaleness' in many languages (like Russian and Polish), but can
>anyone who is *sure* say if Amiga is a constructed word or not?


I'm not a native Spanish-speaker, but after seven years of Spanish classes
in elementary through high school, the word "amiga" does, in fact, mean
"female friend" in Spanish ("amigo" being the male version).

Noticing how things such as boats and airplanes are called "her" and
"she," I was wondering if there's any corrolary between these things....
(The fact that many inanimate objects are give "female" status, that
is....)

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