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From: sunil@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (Sunil Trivedi)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: net.nlang.spanish request
Message-ID: <2310@ut-ngp.UTEXAS>
Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 18:34:36 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 27 18:34:36 1985
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Keywords: net.nlang.iberian,net.nlang.hispanic,net.nlang.espanol

From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson) Message-ID: <819@burl.UUCP>
> 	Some large portion (?1/5?) of the world's people speak Spanish;
> all areas of interest involving them is MUCH too large for one newsgroup;
> and all we'll get out of it is massive cross-postings to existing groups.
> Where do you post a recipe for guacamole?  You post it to net.nlang.spanish
> AND to net.cooks, of course.

And what would be wrong with that?  Cross-postings do not take any additional
disk space, so if a recipe is posted in net.cooks it is for those who are
interested in cooking while those in net.nlang.spanish would be interested in
many other aspects of Spanish culture.  All the recipes for Indian food have
been posted to both net.nlang.india and net.cooks and I haven't heard any
complaints.  Indians make up about ~1/5 of the world's population, has ~15
"national" languages, six religions and a very long history.  I didn't notice
net.nlang.india not "being able to handle the vastness".  If someone posted an
article about going to Ixtapa, Mexico in both net.nlang.spanish and net.travel,
the "travel-only" audience would be able to read it along with those who only
read net.nlang.spanish.  If you need to see how a net.nlang.spanish could look,
look at net.nlang.india or net.nlang.africa.

<> martillo@csd2 suggested using the name net.nlang.iberian instead of
   net.nlang.spanish.  Earlier I had suggested net.nlang.espanol and
   riddle@im4u suggested net.nlang.hispanic.  Each has its strengths and
   weaknesses.  Hispanic and Iberian imply only particular parts of the
   Spanish world.  Espanol is misspelled (no tilde).  I would be interested
   in the "minorities" in the Spanish world (Amerindians, Basques, etc)
   as well as in the Visigoths, Jews and Arabs (visigodos,judios y moros)
   of days gone by.

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