Chris: Thanks for the Louis Armstrong link. Only for Academic purposes I'd like to tell you that the Spanish spoken in South America is called Spanish and the Spanish spoken in Spain is called Castellano. It's called Castellano because of the area it originated in Spain. Not all Spanish people from Spain knows this unless they have studied the origin of the different languages and dialects developed in the Iberic peninsula. The castellano brought to South America is called Spanish as a meaning that it comes from Spain. Alone the centuries the language evolved giving different words, expressions and even ways of doing that comes within a language in the different cultural Countries Spanish is spoken. Recently I've hear that has been created a complete new dictionary that includes South America and Peninsula Iberica new adding words and expressions. South America has its own great linguistics, poets, brilliant writers of all kinds in the same way Spain has its own. If you've been told that the Spanish you'll be learning is from the Royal Spanish Academy of the Lengua (Real Academia De La Lengua Espanola), then it would a very good Spanish. My keyboard is British and doesn't have the accents and the "n" with the little line above. I'm saying this for all the errors you may find in the Spanish written from here. For instance: "Espanola" is with the n that has that curved line over its top. And the pronunciation is different than the one who hasn't it. I haven't read the Austin book you mention. Perhaps Mike, Anthony, Edgar, Ed, have. They're the ones who are interested in the sciences subject to do with the brain. I'm not at present. The practise is already pretty tough for me to add more complications to it. The greater is simplicity the less I fatigue with it. Of course this doesn't mean that there is no a valuation for science. But that valuation is away from zen context. Zen can help to enhance our all senses, observation, concentration....and all that can be brought to enhance the performance of a scientific. But not on the other way round. Zen doesn't need from science but science may need from zen. Expectations is something we all have. Don't tell me about it!. And this for your kid and you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWjN8IVZ10Q Thanks you for writing Mayka
--- On Mon, 25/10/10, ChrisAustinLane <[email protected]> wrote: From: ChrisAustinLane <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, 25 October, 2010, 13:37 The great master Louis Armstrong. http://www.lyrics007.com/Louis%20Armstrong%20Lyrics/Let's%20Call%20The%20Whole%20Thing%20Off%20Lyrics.html It is an example of some arbitrary difference in culture that divides people. That does remind me I didn't answer the question you posed about which Spanish my son and family are learning. I am not that sure, the teachers are from Latin America but they said they are teaching academic Spanish. Most of the native speaking kids in the class are from Mexico. The z is pronounced like s in San José. Having trouble with ch ll and r's Also, apropos to this thread, one of the expectations I had of zen forum was that some one else would have spent he time to read and be open to discussing Austin's book Zen and the Brain. That expectation alas seems to be a source of suffering for me, since despite the tag line of these emails people seem to prefer describing or judging or excerpting books they haven't read, dammit. Thanks, Chris Austin-Lane Sent from a cell phone On Oct 25, 2010, at 3:48, Maria Lopez <[email protected]> wrote: Bill: What does " Po-TAY-to, Po-TAH-to" mean?. Mayka --- On Mon, 25/10/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [Zen] Zen and the Brain To: [email protected] Date: Monday, 25 October, 2010, 5:00 Po-TAY-to, Po-TAH-to…Bill! From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of mike brown Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 9:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen and the Brain Mayka, "Different strokes for different people". It's 'Different strokes for different folks'. The 'strokes' rhymes with 'folks' : ) Mike __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5560 (20101024) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5560 (20101024) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5560 (20101024) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com
