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<DIV><FONT color=#800000 size=2><STRONG>Yes, I think you are correct. I'm always interested to learn the circumstances under which language evolves. No leads on this so far!</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=amartir@fi.uba.ar href="mailto:amartir@fi.uba.ar">ana maria martirena</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=christielopez@earthlink.net href="mailto:christielopez@earthlink.net">christielopez@earthlink.net</A></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 8/24/2004 9:03:04 PM </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have always wondered how that came to happen in some varieties of spanish(mexican?)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>please let me know what you find out</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>regards. ana</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Ana Marķa Martirena<BR>Federico Lacroze 2978<BR>C1426CQP Buenos Aires<BR>011-4551-4859</DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=christielopez@earthlink.net href="mailto:christielopez@earthlink.net">Christie Lopez</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=linganth@cc.rochester.edu href="mailto:linganth@cc.rochester.edu">linganth</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, August 24, 2004 12:04 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Linganth] Mensa</DIV>
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<DIV>Does anyone know how the word "mensa", derived from the Latin word table, I believe, came to have the meaning of "stupid" in Spanish?</DIV>
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<DIV>It seems rather removed from "table" and it just gives me such a chuckle whenever anyone is discussing the Mensa organization, which "provides a forum for intellectual exchange among members"... [Mensa Constitution]</DIV>
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