[lojban-beginners] Re: Translate phrase from the Portal song

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Thursday 20 August 2009 11:43:21 tijlan wrote:
> 2009/8/20 Jorge LlambÃas <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
> > "pastel" is more like English "pie", "cake" would be "torta" in
> > Spanish. Probably makes no difference to the result though.
>
> Oh.
>
> Wiktionary lists "tarta" as a standard Spanish word for "cake; a sweet
> dessert", "torta" being from South American Spanish (it means "a
> sandwich on a roll" in Mexico?):
> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cake#Translations
> My Collins Spanish Dictionary has both, but it doesn't say which one
> is more common. Does "tarta" see any use in Argentina? I'm just
> curious.

The Hispanics I know say "pastel" for "cake", but few of us are from 
Argentina. Most are from Colombia, Venezuela, El Salvador, or Mexico. I've 
seen something labeled "Pecan pie/Pay de nueces", and the first meaning I 
thought of for "pay" is some word in Quechua, until I saw the English.

Pierre