Amiga is female right?

[Crumb]

Aqui en California hay muchas personas quien hablan espanol, y nunca usamos la palabra, "ordenador."  Usamos "computadora."

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Robert Bernardo
El club de usuarios de Comodoro de Fresno
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Castilian speaking latin-americans I know use "computadora" mostly but they understand "ordenador" too.

In latin american Spanish speaking countries youth tend to use English words instead of Spanish ones, and also to create "barbarisms" probably due to lack of knowledge of the language. I would say that grandsons of Spanish speaking people who moved to usa have a very restricted vocabulary of let's say 200 words. that's why some of them eat muffins instead of magdalenas and have lunch instead of "comida" o "almuerzo". And some of them use "chingar" as the "smurfs" used the word "smurf". I remember some discussions between a translator friend and a grand grand grand son of mexicans born in usa who claimed to speak Spanish.

please note that people from Latin American countries, specially old ones have a very rich vocabulary but in the younger generations TV has probably ruined it. Years ago you could listen to natives who were born in the jungle and they spoke better than most of people of Spain. Now it's all 'spanglish'

PS: thanks for trying to write in Spanish but next time please don't use google translate ;-)

[ajlwalker]

I guess the CD32 would be a harajuku girl or anime type girl.

What with the mimicking of the Japanese consoles and the akiko chip.

[vince_6]

Happy to create a poll, or polls. Probably need one for each Amiga. Perhaps the poll can suggest alignment to current or "older" celebrities.
Any suggestions on types like agami has?

Just a poll for m/f will be ok :-)

btw "Poll now %&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!128518; "

what is this??? I didn't type the rest characters :-|

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

btw "Poll now %&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!128518; "

what is this??? I didn't type the rest characters :-|

It's the filter to filter out naughty words.  It doesn't work so well, likes to freak out at things like the British pound symbol, and whatnot.  A bit glitchy, but whatcha gonna do?  :lol:

[kolla]

You just remove that f%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!363;cked up sh%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!305;t from the site.

[RobertB]

In latin american Spanish speaking countries youth tend to use English words instead of Spanish ones, and also to create "barbarisms" probably due to lack of knowledge of the language.

Que insulto!

in the younger generations TV has probably ruined it.

Joven?!  Yo?!  Gracias por esa!

thanks for trying to write in Spanish but next time please don't use google translate ;-)

Aaa, tenemos un experto aqui con el idioma y sus dialectos.  Cuantos anos he usado espanol en la clase?  Como 36 anos!

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Robert Bernardo
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[RobertB]

Sorry... getting back to topic.  My Spanish-speaking students in the class have seen the Commodore and Amiga computers I bring into the classroom, and of course, they are interested in both.  They curiously look at the Amiga computer, wondering why it is called Amiga.

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Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
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[Drummerboy]

Amiga 1000 is one of those liberal artistic types in her early 20s. She's kind of skinny and she almost never wears a dress. She's got a lot of potential and thinks she knows it all but really needs to learn a few things about the world.

Amiga 2000 is an '80s career woman. Not skinny, but not fat. Nicely filled out, wearing sensible heals, with a professional skirt and blouse, her hair is tied back and she wears glasses. One of the few women engineers at her firm.

Amiga 500 is Amiga 2000's younger sister. Freshman in college, full of possibility but in reality, girls just wanna have fun. She likes to accessorise, she's down to earth and enjoys watching TV and reading books. From time to time she get the creative urge to write poetry.

Amiga 3000 is a ex supermodel working at a prominent fashion magazine. She seems to spend her days from deadline to deadline. If she's not arguing with the associate editors she's schmoozing advertisers. She looks natural in a pencil skirt and high high heels, but on her nights off she like to go to a night club and dance the night away in comfortable shoes.

Amiga 600 is Amiga 3000' niece who is still in high school and loves visiting her aunt in the big city. She's so young, she's at that point where she is just discovering boys. Not sure if she hates them or likes them, at times she's just comfortable playing games in the street, but then she sees how they look at her when they all go to the movies together.

Amiga 4000 is a movie star. Miss California, Hollywood's her favourite scene. Well, she's a TV star trying to break into Hollywood. She's got so much talent but she's having trouble getting in front of casting people. Maybe she should get a new agent.

Amiga 1200 is a work friend of 4000 and they work together at the local WFGY TV affiliate station. She's a natural beauty, tall and slender and has that European look. All the guys at the station like her and she likes to toy with them. She's got smarts but she hides behind her playful exterior. She can drink pretty much any guy under the table.

WTF???    :confused:

Seems someone is reading too much story books or watching Dinasty TV Series (1981 to 1989)  :laugh1:  

Interesting historys..

[Drummerboy]

Yeah, Amiga is female; the female of "friend".  

Now, i dont know if the Amiga is a female computer, but the true is, Amiga mean to female genere.

[Crumb]

Que insulto!

Joven?!  Yo?!  Gracias por esa!

Aaa, tenemos un experto aqui con el idioma y sus dialectos.  Cuantos anos he usado espanol en la clase?  Como 36 anos!

FCUG celebrando 33 anos,
Robert Bernardo
El club de usuarios de Comodoro de Fresno
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

It wasn't my intention to insult you, sorry. I was speaking about barbarisms (usually anglisms) introduced by young Spanish speakers, If you feel young very good, but if you make that sort of mistakes too bad. Some people need a few years to master a language (or subject) while others can spend four decades with limited results. Nothing bad as long as you can communicate with native speakers. I can help you to improve your Spanish if you want, send me a PM or email. You should buy a Spanish keyboard, reading anus instead of year sounds odd to native speakers...

I'm more used to Spanish dialects (and languages) but thanks to some friends who came from the other side of the Atlantic I'm aware of Latin American accents and vocabulary.

PS: you shouldn't translate Brand names. No Spanish speaker translates Commodore, Wolkswagen, Firestone... Never ever.

[kolla]

You just did, it's Volkswagen, pronounced «folks-vaguen».

[kickstart]

It wasn't my intention to insult you, sorry. I was speaking about barbarisms (usually anglisms) introduced by young Spanish speakers, If you feel young very good, but if you make that sort of mistakes too bad. Some people need a few years to master a language (or subject) while others can spend four decades with limited results. Nothing bad as long as you can communicate with native speakers. I can help you to improve your Spanish if you want, send me a PM or email. You should buy a Spanish keyboard, reading anus instead of year sounds odd to native speakers...

I'm more used to Spanish dialects (and languages) but thanks to some friends who came from the other side of the Atlantic I'm aware of Latin American accents and vocabulary.

PS: you shouldn't translate Brand names. No Spanish speaker translates Commodore, Wolkswagen, Firestone... Never ever.

Cuando aprendi espanol empece con un profesor mexicano, puedes imaginar resultado... pero si tu te quejas de eso quedas como "xenofobo" y entras en una conversacion sin fin... pero pude resolver el problema aprendiendo con un profesor espanol y aprender espanol de espana, algo que ahora agredezco despues de ver la diferencia.

No uso google translator =)

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I was gonna say, "just use Google translate and be done with it", but I think that's what @kickstart already did.  

[danbeaver]

As I recall from a talk at an AmiExpo in the late 1980's, the engineers were saying very nasty things about the "Lorraine," which was named after the company president's wife (although I heard she was his "girlfriend."  Certain people felt calling Lorraine a Bitc(h) and a c*nt would not be appreciated by the dude in charge; hence Lorraine became an Amiga (I suppose at the time it did not make good advertising to call it an Esposa, a Chica, or a Señorita).

Ref.: http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/prototypes/lorraine.html

[Crumb]

You just did, it's Volkswagen, pronounced «folks-vaguen».

sorry, but that's a writting mistake, not a translation. I don't claim to write or speak other languages as a native anyway. I don't think I will ever reach that level, but as long as it's enough for my job and communicating with foreign friends it will be good enough for me. Despiting the fact that my grandfather spoke and wrote asturian/bable. (a Latin derived language spoken in a part of the north of Spain) as it was his mother tongue together with Castilian you won't hear me telling asturian people that I speak asturian as them (I just know a few words) and if my grandgrandfather spoke Aragonese you won't hear me telling a native Aragonese speaker that I speak as a native (well, it's hard to hear anyone speaking Aragonese anyway).

In Filipinas some old people speak "tagalo", some people claim that it's Spanish because there are some thousands of Spanish words but it's like claiming Spanish = Arabic because we have over 4000 words with Arabic origins.

PS: I wrote that (and this) with my mobile phone, I'd like to see you writing long with that.

@kickstart
¡Anda! No esperaba que supieses español. Escribes mejor que otros de este foro... Haber tenido un profesor mexicano no es malo, lo bueno de haber tenido esos dos profesores es que ahora podrás entender casi cualquier giro y tendrás un vocabulario más amplio, en latinoamérica los mexicanos doblan muchos programas y series. Espero que tu profesor español no fuese del sur de la península, porque entre el ceceo, seseo y las eses mudas... jejeje mi mujer es del sur de España y cuando veo extranjeros que creen que van a aprender español en su ciudad me entra la risa floja. Es preferible aprender en zonas con un acento más neutro (en España eso sería básicamente la mitad norte excluyendo las verdes Asturias, Galicia y las partes rurales de Cantabria. Son unas de las mejores zonas de España, la comida es espectacular y los paisajes preciosos, la gente es muy acogedora, el acento es entrañable, pero para aprender español... Mejor no. bueno, vale ya, bastante me he enrollado para escribir desde móvil

[kolla]

Man, I have been backpacking central America for more than half a year now, and all my postings here and elsewhere for last 7-8 months have been from my iPhone, so yes I can relate.