Cristabel

Ted O. Jackson TOJACKSO at HAWK.SYR.EDU
Mon Feb 12 08:13:30 EST 1996


>         First time I heard `Imaginos', I assumed this was `Los Cristobal'
> or something like that: there are lots of similarly named places in Latin
> America because of the Columbus connection, as someone posted a while
> back. But, it occurs to me, even with my very limited Spanish I can see
> that `Los' would be plural and `Cristobal' clearly isn't. So, I guess it
> isn't as I thought, and what the real interp. is is up for best guess as
> ever: I like Andrew's `Christabel' connection, but there are as good ones
> on the FAQ, which doesn't really seem to make it clear whether the place
> is in Cornwall or Mexico... I have to ask, is it a totally Pearlman
> thing, or is Al sitting at his comp with his tongue in cheek, while we
> flood the ether trying to work his words out? Yours mischeviously ( and
> ill-informedly )
>                                                                 JAZZA
>
Don't know about Spanish, but I know in French there are a few
idiomatic expressions that violate the traditional agreement between
subject and pronoun.
theo



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