Cicero, You may! My best Hispanic friends call me Carleena. At first they thought it was my name. Then by the time I told them it was wrong, they had become like family, and it was endearing to me. Kinda special, you might say. I am always being told that I "married" a good name, that goes so well with my first name. I agree! But it is a mouthful for my kin folks who never knew any Italians! I am not Italian. I am mostly English, with some German, French, etc., mixed in. I translated the phrase you used from my little bit of High School Spanish, I studied 45 yrs ago. I am always surprised I remember any. I learned a tiny bit of French, helping my son with his HS French, 25+ yrs ago. I still remember some of that! Well, enough to do the cross word puzzles, anyway. :) "Carlina"
CCarnivale@aol.com wrote: > Cicero, > You may! My best Hispanic friends call me Carleena. At first they > thought it was my name. Then by the time I told them it was wrong, > they had become like family, and it was endearing to me. Kinda > special, you might say. I am always being told that I "married" a > good name, that goes so well with my first name. I agree! But it is a > mouthful for my kin folks who never knew any Italians! I udenrstand. Italian is not an esay language and sound in a strange way to foreigners. I'm not amezed they think your name is mouthful, but to latin speakers your name has a very pleasant sound. On the other hand we (italians) are not known to be good english speakers. This is not true for the new generations, but it is true for the majority (and for me, as you can see ^__^) In high school we studied ancient latin and greek but not sufficiently nowadays foreign languages. At university (I studied law) I had not a course of foreign language.... Nowadays is different, but in my times was not so (and I'm 35 yo) >I still remember some of that! Well, enough > to do the cross word puzzles, anyway. :) "Carlina" Indeed you've studied very well ! I'm not yet able to do word puzzles in english.... :-)) ciao Paolo (cicero)