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From: mentat@gismo.gun.de (Sven Sommerfeld)
Subject: Re: ghoti = fish
Date: 24 Nov 1996 15:45:00 +0200
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In article <56q01m$lqk@fcnews.fc.hp.com> Ray Depew  <rrd@fc.hp.com> wrote:

> David Swanson (dcs2e@darwin.clas.virginia.edu) wrote:
>
> : In article <56i7ev$8d3@fcnews.fc.hp.com>
> : rrd@fc.hp.com (Ray Depew) writes:
>
> : > David Swanson (dcs2e@darwin.clas.virginia.edu) wrote:
> : >
> : > : In article <56cg8l$cj4@bone.think.com>
> : > : sandee@think.com.nospam (Daan Sandee) writes:
> : >
> : > : > Presumably a play on a song which was popular in the days of my
> : > : > youth, "Que sera, sera" (Doris Day?).  This means "what will be,
> : > : > will be", where "que" is pronounced "kay" (in the song).
> : > :
> : > : Yeah, must be Spanish.  Maybe I'm thrown off by the fact that all
> : > the : gondoliers in Venice sing it.

To make it short: "que sera', sera'" (with an acute on the "a") *is*  
Spanish. The "e" in "que" is long, a sound that IMO doesn't occur in  
English.

Sven Sommerfeld
(student of linguistics)


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