Mr Spielberg go back to history class please.
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conran — 20 years ago(December 06, 2005 03:38 PM)
The difference between Spanish and Portuguese is comparable to that of American English and UK English. I have a friend who speaks Spanish primarily, and he says that he could easily have a conversation with a Portuguese-speaking person. So unless you are Portuguese and you are verifying that the language spoken is in no way related to Portuguese, the original comment is irrelevent.
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doktordaoud — 20 years ago(December 15, 2005 06:55 AM)
The film is FILLED with inaccuracies in dealing with the rebellion, the trial, ethnic groups, etc. and the language gaffe is just one of them. Spielburg should have read more of the text 'Echo of Lions' that the screenplay was stolen from by the screenwriter Franzoni. At least it could have been plagarized with more accuracy.
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QuetZAL7 — 20 years ago(January 04, 2006 03:32 AM)
You know, I was wondering why he was speaking Spanish. I just thought maybe, MAYBE, he was speaking it as a courtesy to the people around him.
Another thing that bothered me was that we never once heard the Queen of Spain speak in Spanish she sure practiced a lot of English, didn't she? Oooh wait she says, "Que bonita!" once at the end. There it is. I'm convinced. -
cuyaya — 20 years ago(January 06, 2006 04:48 PM)
Mr. Conran: your comment is a typical text-book case in American ignorance (sorry to generalize, but most Americans know nothing of that which is outside of the U.S.'s borders).
Portuguese and Spanish are closeley related, but are nonetheless separate and independent languages. The blatantly inaccurate comparison to North American and British English can be more correctly compared to the differences between the way Spanish is spoken in Spain and the Americas. Also, every Spanish speaking country in the Americas has its own different accent (some less distingushable than others) so just as English in the U.S., Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia and Jamaica is different from country to country, so is the case with Spanish from Spain, Argentina, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, etc. (by which I also mean that we are not all Mexicans if we speak Spanish).
Commenting on something said before, Portuguese and Galego (or Galician, language spoken co-oficially in Spain's Galicia region) are indeed very closeley related and Galicians and Portuguese can understand each other with a high level of accuracy.
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cuyaya — 20 years ago(January 12, 2006 11:27 AM)
Well, thats your friends. How bout you? Do you know about geography?
Since you seem to be so much of a Seinfeld fan, do you remember the episode where Kramer wants to set up a cigar making gig? Did you even know what he was talking about in the end when he says " theyre not even Cubans. Theyre Dominicans!" -
raattbbooyy — 20 years ago(January 13, 2006 09:30 AM)
Well, thats your friends. How bout you? Do you know about geography?
The answer was implied by the comment. Perhaps I should have written, "most of my 'typical text-book case' American friends and I are well versed in geography."
Since you seem to be so much of a Seinfeld fan, do you remember the episode where Kramer wants to set up a cigar making gig?
Yes, I remember it well, seeing Lloyd Bridges in a Seinfeld episode was an unexpected surprise.
