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From: terry@nrcvax.UUCP (Terry Grevstad)
Newsgroups: talk.philosophy.misc,net.women,net.poems
Subject: Re: Perceptions
Message-ID: <710@nrcvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Sep-86 11:44:58 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 18 11:44:58 1986
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jimb@tekigm2.UUCP (Jim Boland) says:
>In article <1860@ihlpa.UUCP> zazam@ihlpa.UUCP (Azam) writes:
>>
>>The other day we were talking about mexican beers and  I mentioned
>>"Carta  Blanca". Not knowing what the name meant I asked one of my
>>co-workers. It was interesting to find that it meant blank message.
>
>Why didn't you ask a coworker who knows spanish?????.  It certainly doesn't
>mean blank message.  
>Blanca is Spanish for white.  I believe carta is the same in english so
>Carta Blanca would mean "white card".

Isn't it virtually the same as the French ``carte blanche'', which
means literally ``blank document'', but is figuratively interpreted as
``full discretionary power.''


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