Comments on: My Last Day in Spain http://www.peacebang.com/2006/01/27/my-last-day-in-spain/ The manic mind of the minister -- Auntie Mame Meets Cotton Mather Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:18:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Jamie Goodwin http://www.peacebang.com/2006/01/27/my-last-day-in-spain/#comment-1287 Jamie Goodwin Wed, 01 Feb 2006 06:10:52 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2006/01/27/my-last-day-in-spain/#comment-1287 thankies! thankies!

]]> By: PeaceBang http://www.peacebang.com/2006/01/27/my-last-day-in-spain/#comment-1286 PeaceBang Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:51:02 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2006/01/27/my-last-day-in-spain/#comment-1286 Jaume, I'm blushing!!<br/><br/>Jamie, it goes like this:<br/><br/>"saloot<br/>ee forza<br/>ahl<br/>kanoot!!"<br/><br/>But try to say it with a Catalanian accent, and not a Scandanavian one. Jaume, I’m blushing!!

Jamie, it goes like this:

“saloot
ee forza
ahl
kanoot!!”

But try to say it with a Catalanian accent, and not a Scandanavian one.

]]> By: Jaume http://www.peacebang.com/2006/01/27/my-last-day-in-spain/#comment-1285 Jaume Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:57:42 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2006/01/27/my-last-day-in-spain/#comment-1285 Hi Peacebang and everyone!<br/><br/>It was both a pleasure (because she is so nice and charming and smart and beautiful outside and inside) and an honour (being such a much-read and loved blogger) to meet Peacebang, and I just regret that the time was too short to enjoy this blooming friendship. (sigh!)<br/><br/>So, talking about the toast, it is actually "Salut i força al canut!" and it originally meant "Health and a lot in your purse!", but "força" may also mean "strength" if used as a substantive, and "canut" may me misunderstood with the man's virile organ (ehem!) so many people think that it actually means: "Health and have strength in..." So, pick your choice when you say it.<br/><br/>I am not sure about phonetic spelling, but you should read as if it was Spanish (it isn't, it's Catalan, a Romance language actually closer to Provenzal, the language spoken in southern France, than to Castilian Spanish), and remember that the ç reads as an "s". Hi Peacebang and everyone!

It was both a pleasure (because she is so nice and charming and smart and beautiful outside and inside) and an honour (being such a much-read and loved blogger) to meet Peacebang, and I just regret that the time was too short to enjoy this blooming friendship. (sigh!)

So, talking about the toast, it is actually “Salut i força al canut!” and it originally meant “Health and a lot in your purse!”, but “força” may also mean “strength” if used as a substantive, and “canut” may me misunderstood with the man’s virile organ (ehem!) so many people think that it actually means: “Health and have strength in…” So, pick your choice when you say it.

I am not sure about phonetic spelling, but you should read as if it was Spanish (it isn’t, it’s Catalan, a Romance language actually closer to Provenzal, the language spoken in southern France, than to Castilian Spanish), and remember that the ç reads as an “s”.

]]> By: Jamie Goodwin http://www.peacebang.com/2006/01/27/my-last-day-in-spain/#comment-1284 Jamie Goodwin Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:29:47 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2006/01/27/my-last-day-in-spain/#comment-1284 now that is one toast you must post phoneticaly, that is one I would love to use! now that is one toast you must post phoneticaly, that is one I would love to use!

]]> By: boyinthebands http://www.peacebang.com/2006/01/27/my-last-day-in-spain/#comment-1283 boyinthebands Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:36:52 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2006/01/27/my-last-day-in-spain/#comment-1283 Canut, as in codpiece?<br/><br/>Oh, dear, now I'm thinking of the Sacred Cod. Canut, as in codpiece?

Oh, dear, now I’m thinking of the Sacred Cod.

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