Curious that someone values someone else's wisdom enough to quote him, but not enough to spell his name correctly. Checking in Google Books, is it that the French, the Germans, etc don't (pretend to) read Johnson, don't care to confess it, prefer carefully constructed argument over appeals to authorities?
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January 18th 2012 11:22
Apart from wondering whether Spanish speakers tend more towards irrationality than their northern neighbours, you might also ask whether there is some moth-like belief that in English spelling the "h" always comes after a consonant. I'm making it up.
January 18th 2012 17:08
My middle name is John, almost always written by Spaniards as 'Jhon'. I suppose, as A Nun suggests, it seems more natural that way. Just as 'ligth' seems more natural than 'light'.
January 18th 2012 17:23
Fucking foreingers
January 19th 2012 10:53
I was just now thinking about explaining "Jhon" from a phonemic perspective, but I'm not getting anywhere: standard Catalan Catalan speakers can say it OK because they've got the /ʒ/, which is close enough to the standard English /dʒ/, but they still spell it that way; and I think most younger peninsular Spanish speakers have assimilated the correctish pronunciation of "John Lennon" to a sufficient extent to enable them to perform the sound effectively (although there's still a lot of "Yenifer López" about) but the orthography is still a problem.
I vote that non-Germanics should be excused whichever way they spell "light." It's a pretty obscure artefact.
January 19th 2012 13:16
Germanics are more likely to recognise the right place for the 'h' -- after the 'o'.
January 22nd 2012 11:44
Is it not just that h must be in front of a vowel in Asturo-Leo-Casto-Gallego and Cata-Val-Bal-Occi-Algherse?
January 23rd 2012 10:07
Let us stop the joking and mourn Etta Yames, heard this morning on RTVE. If the Basque terrorist ceasefire doesn't hold, maybe they could in homage introduce a range of grenades called "ETA yams".
January 23rd 2012 18:13
Hell, I'd rather go blind
January 24th 2012 10:50
I think that rumours of her death may have been greatly exaggerated - she's figured that she'd only start making money from her back-catalogue when the obits went to press.
January 29th 2012 19:26
A variation on the issue of the position of the 'h', and the 't' and especially the 'f' is "Luthfansa".
Sometime Spaniards do a really thorough (!) job.
http://opinion.elperiodico.com/poli/otras-verdades-de-spanair/
January 29th 2012 22:54
Historia de la medicina peruana en el siglo XX: Volume 1 - Page 843: ... en Colonia, del Centro de Medicina Submarina Hiperbárica y Aeroespacial financiado por Luthfansa; el profesor John del Centro de Spandau; dependencias hiperbáricas de la Marina Alemana en Lübeck, Hamburgo Travemunde, etc
January 30th 2012 11:09
Maybe it's all about something entirely different.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Imam-Luthfansa/100000780410034
April 25th 2012 12:28
Yincana for gymkhana: http://buscon.rae.es/dpdI/SrvltGUIBusDPD?lema=yincana
April 25th 2012 18:11
Someone needs to introduce them to Canute and descriptive linguistics: https://www.google.es/#hl=es&q=yinkana