Enrique Bird (ebird@gmgroup.com)
Wed, 22 Dec 1999 16:03:52 -0400
Pat, friends,
Thanks for your note. Actually, I always thought that
downtown originally referred to the opposite of your example
of uptown; the not-high-class sector of the city, where
houses and home-type businesses mix. Incidentally,
"el centro" is used similarily (but not meaning downtown)
locally to describe a place like a mall "centro comercial"
(although we are beginning to call them malls in Spanish
conversations!" or a "centro cultural" cultural center(?)
where a particular type of activity is concentrated.
Enrique F. Bird PicR>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Zeitoun [SMTP:pwz@tca.net]
>
> Enrique,,
>
> Yes 'el centro' is the center, but in the Spanish as
spoken in Texas and
>
-- # To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to majordomo@icomm.ca. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0b3 on Wed 22 Dec 1999 - 15:04:55 EST