From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Tue Sep 28 22:53:16 1993 Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Wed, 29 Sep 1993 02:54:02 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Wed, 29 Sep 1993 02:53:57 -0400 Message-Id: <199309290653.AA11883@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 3646; Wed, 29 Sep 93 02:52:17 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 5370; Wed, 29 Sep 93 02:54:52 EDT Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 02:53:16 -0400 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: Eaton: You asked for it ... X-To: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU X-Cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: JL> > Jorge: any idea why peruano was JL> > frequent but the words for Colombian, and Chilean are not JL> JL> Nope. How were the frequencies determined? JL> JL> co'o mi'e xorxes It is not really known - the work was done back in the 1920's, and therefore it is probably based on written text, since the distinctions in registers and dialects were not seen as important then. My question is therefore whether there is something about Peru or Peruvian culture or people that would cause ti to be talked about or used as an example in predominantly European (Spanish) texts. I can for example see Argentina as being important, since it had ties to England as well as Spain culturally, based on the folklore presented in the musical Evita. I would imagine Panama to have rated higher, purely on the existenceof the canal - I suspect that the high rating for Cuba was due to cigars and sugar, since it was also considered a frequent concept in English as well as Spanish. lojbab