OT: Spanish syntax

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Apr 7 19:34:55 UTC 2008


Back in the day, notices read:

"Se habla español."


Nowadays, they read:

"Hablamos español."


-Wilson
--
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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 -Sam'l Clemens

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