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	Archive through Mar 14, 2005 Last Post: Mar 15, 2005, 06:52 pm		20

Posted By: Magus Mar 14, 2005 - 02:56 pm

Actually, mother of days would be "Madre de los dìas", as dìas is masculine dispite the more feminine ending.

And if you want to talk accents, read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I forget exactly, but there were around fourteen accuarate yet different dialects used in there.

The whole point of different accents is to sound colloquial. It's honesty and reality.

Posted By: Sara Mar 15, 2005 - 05:50 am

You have to watch employing them in your stories, however, unless you can do them really, really well -- like Mark Twain. Otherwise, they're simply a distraction to your reader. You never want to sacrifice the reader's suspension of disbelief for the sake of sounding familiar with a particular dialect or colloquialism.

And put away that Spanish book, Magus, rot you!

Posted By: aldan Mar 15, 2005 - 08:07 am

The most important thing to remember with accents, though, is to do, yet not OVERdo.

Posted By: Magus Mar 15, 2005 - 01:35 pm

I would just like to asy that I spoke with mi profesorra del español hoy. She said that "Dios is masculine, as one would assume by looking at it.

Posted By: aldan Mar 15, 2005 - 06:52 pm

Yes, it is, but (and that's a big BUTT) there is no article used for it, since to latinos, there is only ONE god (and no, we're not going to go into the whole catlicker thing about three and one and one and three), and so when referring to god with a capital G (well, D), there is no article used.

Posted By: Magus Mar 16, 2005 - 04:29 pm

In our class we were taught that it is more correct to use articles with everything then to not use them at all. She teaches us the examples as we go, but this general rule holds. And she did say that dios should use a masculine article before it when used.