Church Pop brings us the news:
This of course is a humor piece. These days, I guess it is necessary to make that clear.
Tiber Creek Community Church
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
The coffee & donut’s after mass sign was superb. An addition to St. Peters that all rotund clergy and lay Catholics can appreciate! Thanks for the laugh.
The ‘Creek’ part gives it a real down-home-on-the-farm flavor, don’t y’all agree? I wonder how an Argentine gaucho would say “y’all”?
‘ I wonder how an Argentine gaucho would say “y’all”? ‘
“Vosotros” is the plural familiar “you” (a/k/a “y’all”) in Spanish — although it’s not used that much in Latin American Spanish (much more common in continental Spanish). “Vosotros” does show up in the Bible, though (depending on the translation). Perhaps someone more familiar with Argentine Spanish would know if there’s any regionalism similar to “y’all”, or if “vosotros” is more commonly used in Argentina than in the rest of Latin America.
The only Spanish I know of that has a drawl is Costa Rican, and unfortunately I don’t know Spanish too well at all. It would be fun to look for the counterparts to English slang.
It’s a small world. I flew to Costa Rica to join my wife, who had been living there for three months, and stayed for two weeks. Our landlady insisted on talking to me in her drawling Spanish, and I was largely able to follow her conversation. I couldn’t believe what I heard. She told me all about how her son-in-law dumped her daughter and ran off with the daughter of the Japanese-Costa Rican woman who went to jail for planting a bomb at the U.S. Embassy there! To this day I still shake my head over the degrees of connection.
French actually has a verb, « tutoyer » meaning to address someone using the 2nd person singular form « Tu »
« On se tutoie? » means “Shall we call each other « Tu »?” Rather like using first names in English.
English etiquette used to be similar. When William Penn, following the Quaker usage, addressed the Recorder of London as “thou,” the outraged judge retorted, “Dost thou “thou” me, thou villain?”
Edinburgh shopkeepers tend to use the 3rd person, “Can I interest the gentleman in…?”
“French actually has a verb, « tutoyer » meaning to address someone using the 2nd person singular form « Tu »”
The equivalent verb in Spanish is “tutear,” and is used just like “tutoyer” in French.
Catherine A. McClarey wrote, “The equivalent verb in Spanish is “tutear,” and is used just like “tutoyer” in French.”
Thank you for that. Perhaps, the Recorder of London was not using a neologism, when he rebuked William Penn for “thouing” him – Interesting.