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Re: Porsche versus London [houdini1]

by jlbl on Fri Apr 11 08:32:50 PDT 2008

When in Florida I hope you got to visit St. Augustine. Yes, I did. Nice city. After being to Orlando to a conference I rented a mid-size car (of so little interest that I have even forgot its brand name :mad: ) to spent some days driving to St. Augustine, Cape Canaveral (from cañaveral : a spot where canes grow) and other places. Founded by your Countrymen in 1565, it is the oldest city in the U.S. Coincidentally, the farm of my mother´s family at the Aragon Pyrenees Mountains has '1565' engraved in its stone framed main entrance door. On the other hand, no Aragonese person went to the Americas as Spanish explorer or settler, because the Aragonese Parliament consistently refused, from the 16th to the 18th Centuries, to rise taxation to give money to the King for expeditions to America and other war enterprises, even within Europe. So, the American expeditions were only supported by the Castilian and Leonese Parliament and as such only Castilians and Leonese persons were allowed to cross the Ocean to get a chance to improve their living. (In the USA I have visited Maine in addition to the other places I posted yesterday.) Regards, Jose

Re: more about the use of commas [steve_]

by jlbl on Wed Sep 26 09:29:08 PDT 2007

The Trailing of the Sheep festival comes up in a couple of weeks. Big sheep parade. Steve: here, in Spain, there still are many merino sheep. Yet the annual sheep shearing is frequently done by polish men that come on purpose. I cannot imagine what my grand father could have said about it :surprise: . He traded his horses, sheep and cows with the French across the border. (Though I live next to Bilbao, and very happily, I was born Aragonese at the Pyrenees; so, I have my heart divided now between the Basque Country and Aragon :D .) Jose

Only intended to be a collateral dead end…

by jlbl on Fri Jun 22 08:24:13 PDT 2007

for those of you interested in History. Some allusions having being posted (none related with cars, however), there is some information that may bee consulted in… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_of_Aragon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_of_Castile http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Monarchs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habsburg_Spain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Empire :shades: Regards, Jose

Davidthompson .....................

by rroyce10 on Tue May 25 03:32:09 PDT 2004

.... I. The Catalan Language: Introduction 1. The Catalan Language Catalan, a language spoken by a population of around ten million, is, as French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Rumanian, a neo-latin language, that is, a language derived from Latin.       Catalan is spoken mainly in the nort-eastern region of Spain (Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands), with notable encroachments in the South of France (Roussillon) and even in Italy (in the town of Alguer, on the island of Sardinia.) (see the map).      Because of its geographical location, Catalan has many features in common with Spanish (particularly in its morphology) and French (particularly in its phonetic system and vocabulary). It is particularly similar to Occitan languages and Old Provençal.      According to some sources, the distribution of Catalan speakers is as follows: in Spain (Catalonia, Valencia, and Balearic Islands) ± 9,100,000; in Andorra ± 38,000; in France ± 330,000; and finally in Alguer (Italy) ± 37,000, for a total of more than ten million people.      The Catalan language is fairly homogeneous, although exist two main dialects or variants: the western (which includes Valencia, the western part of Catalonia and the eastern fringe of Aragon) and the eastern (which includes the rest of Catalonia, the Roussillon, the Balearics islands and Alguer). Nevertheless, the differences are minimal and affect almost exclusively the pronunciation of the unstressed vowels, and they do not create problems of intecomprehension. In this Catalan Grammar, we will insist on the eastern Catalan, mentioning only once and a while, some other dialectal modalities.      It is quite important to notice that of the 56 languages spoken in Europe, Catalan occupies the 21st. place in terms of the number of speakers, ahead of Danish, Norwegian, Eslovac, Basque, etc. In terms of geography, the Catalan speaking territories are larger than Holland, Belgium, Denmark or Switzerland.      Today, Catalan is the official language of the republic of Andorra. In Spain, in the regions where Catalan is the autochthonous language, it shares the co-officiality with Spanish. But this situation has not been the same through the long and difficult history of Catalan, a language without a state and consequently in an unstable condition. Not long ago, for example, it was practically forbidden to speak Catalan by the totalitarian regime of Franco; but after his death and the introduction of the democracy in Spain, Catalan has almost regained its pre Civil-War status.      Now, the government of Catalonia in Barcelona is trying to implement a linguistic policy of "normalization," i. e., an attempt to create the necessary equilibrium between Catalan and Spanish languages throughout the Catalan speaking countries.           Hey, you learn something new everyday .. thanks for the info.!                            Terry.

Re: Thumping noise [aragon]

by wijoco on Mon Mar 28 17:30:37 PST 2005

This also goes for #1611: Blend door failures are pretty common on Windstar/Taurus models of that era. The assembly is pretty flimsy and tends to break in a number of places. Unfortunately it requires close to ten hours of labor to replace. Sorry.

Thumping noise

by aragon on Sun Mar 27 06:44:09 PST 2005

I own a 2001 windstar and I love it, BUT last night as I turned the key to the on position (did not ignite) I heard a loud thumping noise from under the dash board. I ignited the car to see if any of the "warning" lights came on, but everything seemed o.k., however, the noise continued. I noticed that the heater was on and decided to turn it off. Once it was off the noise disappeared. What can the problem be? Thanks