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Dominican: From Dominica or DR?
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The other one is called Dominica. The Commonwealth of Dominica in fact. Maybe they are called Dominicites (if hanging down) or Domingmites (if standing).
Anna Coniglio said:If a person for the Dominican Republic is called a Dominican than what are the people of Dominica called??? You got me thinking Rick. Don't do that
Opps my mistake, I mean the people of Domenica
The other one is called Dominica. The Commonwealth of Dominica in fact. Maybe they are called Dominicites (if hanging down) or Domingmites (if standing).
Anna Coniglio said:If a person for the Dominican Republic is called a Dominican than what are the people of Dominica called??? You got me thinking Rick. Don't do that
Opps my mistake, I mean the people of Domenica
The people of Domin?ca are Domin?cans; people of the Dom?nican Republic are Dom?nicans.
And being that this tilde (?) is not used in English there's no way to tell the difference in the written language. Rather confusing and I hate it. Oh well... I'll have to live with it.
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Pib, When I wrote my post I used the tilde instead of an accent mark in Dominica because I haven't yet taken the time to figure what keys with Alt give me the accent mark. Next project.
I have been on Dominica and read about it in tourist publications. Never have seen an accent mark to tell you how to pronounce it correctly. It is just one of those things you know/learn. If you aren't in the "know", you don't know that Samana is really Saman?.
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The problem, Ken, remains. Because the tilde is not used in English, only in Spanish (and French, and... you get the idea). And by the way dominicano doesn't have a tilde anywhere (notice that it isn't capitalized either). Oh how I love my language 
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Pib said:And by the way dominicano doesn't have a tilde anywhere (notice that it isn't capitalized either). Oh how I love my language
Yes, I know that dominicano isn't capitalized, but this board is basically in English. Dominican is English, dominicano is Spanish and it has its own rules and proununciations.
I also know it doesn't have a tilde. But like Dominican, meaning either a native of Dominica or one of the Dominican Republic, it is one of those things you must know.
With respect to capitalization, again it is a language difference: agosto and August, for example.
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whoa Ken!
Good that you know Spanish... keep it up, it'll soon be no. 1 language in the world yeah, right. The point I was trying to make is that in written English there is no way to differenciate between one and the other... I am sure you can agree with me on that.
Good that you know Spanish... keep it up, it'll soon be no. 1 language in the world yeah, right. The point I was trying to make is that in written English there is no way to differenciate between one and the other... I am sure you can agree with me on that.
Re: whoa Ken!
Yes, Pib, on that and a great many things.
But that is also true for visitors to the DR trying to pronounce many words here. In Spanish,capital letters aren't accented, so Samana usually gets pronounced S?mana or Sam?na. Nothing on the WELCOME TO SAMANA signs tells them differently.
I fully understand your point. If we have a difference, it is only if you are trying to say that in Spanish, because of the rules and the tildes,that mistakes like those we've been talking about in English are prevented.
Yes, Pib, on that and a great many things.
But that is also true for visitors to the DR trying to pronounce many words here. In Spanish,capital letters aren't accented, so Samana usually gets pronounced S?mana or Sam?na. Nothing on the WELCOME TO SAMANA signs tells them differently.
I fully understand your point. If we have a difference, it is only if you are trying to say that in Spanish, because of the rules and the tildes,that mistakes like those we've been talking about in English are prevented.
Great series of posts ken!
Nice to know that you THINK you know EVERYTHING,and that if you make enough posts you always get the last word! I like your use of "Yes,BUT!",that way you seem to agree with "PIB",but actually don't! It must be a tough burden having to "ME TOO" EVERYTHING! CRIS COLON
Nice to know that you THINK you know EVERYTHING,and that if you make enough posts you always get the last word! I like your use of "Yes,BUT!",that way you seem to agree with "PIB",but actually don't! It must be a tough burden having to "ME TOO" EVERYTHING! CRIS COLON
Chico Escuela
You're all wrong. As all viewers of the old (1970's) "Saturday Night Live" are aware, we are properly known in English as "Dominican Republicans". Case solved.
You're all wrong. As all viewers of the old (1970's) "Saturday Night Live" are aware, we are properly known in English as "Dominican Republicans". Case solved.