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<div>I accidentally did my Reply to the list, rather than only to the prof from UTSA, and I'm glad I reached you. Your comments are fascinating about the ñ in Spanish, by the way. My late mother was an Italian World War Two war bride from Tuscany--I can recall the verb 'guadagnare," "to earn," a cognate with the Spanish "ganar" (which has a simple n, not the ñ). There are others; this is the word that came to mine as I wrote this email.</div>
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<div>I always found it mildly amusing that my friends couldn't spell out "BBL" in words. I think you've probably hit the nail on the head with your explanation!</div>
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<div>Greetings from Asia,</div>
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From: Israel Cohen <cohen.izzy@gmail.com><br>
To: edling@lists.mail.umbc.edu; interpreterman@aol.com<br>
Sent: Wed, Dec 16, 2020 5:56 am<br>
Subject: UTSA Ph.D. in Culture, Literacy, and Language => Spanish enty<br>
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<div class="yiv9433352775gmail_default" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Your friends said BBL because <i>every</i> course in the <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica, arial;font-size:13.3333px;">Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies begins with those letters. But that doesn't answer your question. Imagine this conversation between 2 instructors:</span></div>
<div class="yiv9433352775gmail_default" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica, arial;font-size:13.3333px;">"What are you teaching?"</span></div>
<div class="yiv9433352775gmail_default" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica, arial;font-size:13.3333px;">"I'm teaching a lot of BBS ..."</span></div>
<div class="yiv9433352775gmail_default" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica, arial;font-size:13.3333px;">That sounds too much like BS which is a well known acronym for something else.</span></div>
<div class="yiv9433352775gmail_default" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica, arial;font-size:13.3333px;">Therefore, I suspect the L in BiLingual was substituted for the S in Studies.</span></div>
<div class="yiv9433352775gmail_default" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica, arial;font-size:13.3333px;">In Texas, BBL is a well known acronym for "barrels (of oil)". And a lot of BBL has a very nice sound there.</span></div>
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<div class="yiv9433352775gmail_default" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica, arial;font-size:13.3333px;">My niece's daughter used to call me Texas. She probably heard her mother refer to a somewhat prominent part of my anatomy and the little girl couldn't pronounce the KH-sound in Yiddish tuchis. </span></div>
<div class="yiv9433352775gmail_default" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica, arial;font-size:13.3333px;">Texas actually is the tuchis of Turtle Island. It's retracted head is at Baffin Bay, right foreleg at Labrador / Nova Scotia, right hind leg at Florida, tail at Mexico, left hindleg at Baja California and left foreleg at Alaska. For details, download this file from my Dropbox: </span></div>
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<div class="yiv9433352775gmail_default" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica, arial;font-size:13.3333px;">Perhaps someone on this list</span><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> can explain why there is such a pervasive parallel between Spanish enye (n-tilde) and RG, RK and terminal RSH in other (mostly Germanic) anguages? For a list of examples, download this file: </span><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<div class="yiv9433352775gmail_default" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Best regards & stay well,</div>
<div class="yiv9433352775gmail_default" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Izzy</div>
<div class="yiv9433352775gmail_default" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Israel A. Cohen</div>
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