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Subject: Re: [OM] "Deasil", was olympus-digest V2 #4025
From: Giles <cnocbui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 10:20:40 +0100

This reminds me of something amusing I once heard.

Someone was interviewing a native speaker of Irish Gaelic and asked
what the Gaelic equivalent of mañana would be.

The person replied that he didn't think there was a word in Gaelic
that could express quite that degree of urgency.

Giles


There are also, of course, regional issues. I thought 'ahorra' meant
'now', but in Mexico, its meaning is closer to 'mañana', or
'eventually' than 'right away'.


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