OK, so WTF is the "EE UU?"
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Thu Feb-26-04 08:04 PM
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| OK, so WTF is the "EE UU?" |
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Los Estados Unidos --> "EU." Not "EE UU." WTF?!?
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| Ellen Forradalom
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Thu Feb-26-04 08:05 PM
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| 1. AFAIK caps are indicated by double letters in Spanish |
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Weird eh? They also turn their exclamation points and question marks upside down!
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| short bus president
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Thu Feb-26-04 08:07 PM
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| 3. the punctuation marks I know - |
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upside down at the beginning of the sentence, right-side up at the end. The doubling of letters to indicate caps (when in fact the letters are already very clearly capitalized) is a new one by me...
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| Deja Q
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Thu Feb-26-04 08:22 PM
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Where is Sylvester McCoy when we need him? :evilgrin:
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Thu Feb-26-04 08:25 PM
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Thu Feb-26-04 08:06 PM
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| 2. I guess the repetition is intended to mean plural |
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E = Estado, EE = Estados. Weird, I know. That's a Spanish thing. In Brazil we write EUA (Estados Unidos da América).
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Thu Feb-26-04 08:08 PM
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It is used to mean plural
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Thu Feb-26-04 08:08 PM
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Hardly seems "united" when it's all pluralized...
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Thu Feb-26-04 08:14 PM
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| 6. it works different in Spanish... |
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"United" has both gender and number... so for example...
United States = Estados Unidos
united women = mujeres unidas
united world = mundo unido
and so on...
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Thu Feb-26-04 08:15 PM
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| 7. In Spanish, adjectives flex into plural along with the noun. |
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