Navaja, opinion requested

[fernando]

Originally Posted by Chris Evans

... Fernando: Thanks for the correction, but keep in mind that many of the cutlers were illiterate, so bad spelling was the norm, rather than the exception ...

Agreed Chris.
However in this case i saw the navaja in question and the spelling is correct; it is the reading that wasn't .

[Chris Evans]

Originally Posted by fernando

Agreed Chris.
However in this case i saw the navaja in question and the spelling is correct; it is the reading that wasn't .

Touche!

But on second thoughts, the cutler still cannot spell because the correct version is "tiemblan"


Cheers
Chris

[Gavin Nugent]

Originally Posted by fernando

Gavin, may i ?

"Cuando acaricia mi mano"
"la cacha de esta navaja"
hasta los valientes tremblan" (tremble)
"al ver mis bravas hazañas" (feats)


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Thank you Fernando.

Gavin

[fernando]

Originally Posted by Chris Evans

Touche!

But on second thoughts, the cutler still cannot spell because the correct version is "tiemblan"


Cheers
Chris

Maybe not a cutler's mispell, Chris.
More like my short sight.
... or a certain influence of having a lot of similar terms both in castillian as in portuguese, all derived from as many similar terms in latin ... tremĕre, timĕre, tremulare (which gave temblar).

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[Chris Evans]

Originally Posted by fernando

Maybe not a cutler's mispell, Chris.
More like my short sight.
... or a certain influence of having a lot of similar terms both in castillian as in portuguese, all derived from as many similar terms in latin ... tremĕre, timĕre, tremulare (which gave temblar).

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I too, just now, initially read it as "tremblan", though my eyes airen't what they used to be though with a bit of imagination I can also read it as "tiemblan".

Cheers
Chris