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Juan Cires Martinez jcm at mat.upm.es
Mon Jul 24 10:06:27 CDT 1995


About TRP's spanish, the only doubt I have is about the song the
Argentinians sing in the submarine:

 "Aqui me pongo a cantar
  al compas de la viguela,
  que el hombre que lo desvela
  una pena estrordinaria,
  como la ave solitaria
  con el cantar se consuela."

	  (I don't remember the page number -- I don't have the text
	   with me)

The word "estrordinaria" doesn't exist in spanish, the correct spelling
being "extraordinaria".  And the word "ave" is masculine, so it should
have been "EL ave".  I am from Spain, though, and maybe in Argentina it is
different.



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