User talk:Guifa
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[edit] Galicia
Recently WikiProject Galicia has been created. Perhaps you are interested in joining us to help improving Galicia articles at English Wikipedia. --Stoni(talk) 14:18, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Spanish vowels
My apologies if I came out too harsh on the issue of Spanish tense/lax vowels. I'm just an amateur "linguist" and I've worked under the assumption that this phonetic contrast was well-established, based on conversations with other people, but after researching around it seems that it's not. There are some works about a correlation between tenseness and open syllables in several major dialects; in others stress is also correlated; some say that there's free variation, and many sources simply state that all Spanish vowels are equal in all contexts and in all dialects (thought that's surely wrong). Argentine Spanish is mentioned as having a correlation between open/checked syllables and tense/lax realization of vowels; in Andalusian there's a well-known phenomenon where the plural is marked by making the last vowel lax (as expected when the plural was marked by adding -s, but that final consonant is elided). Since the issue is not clear and you do have good sources to back you up, feel free to correct what I changed — though if you have access to good material I'd like to know if you find anything on the contrary. Thanks for your patience. —Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 14:22, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Greetings
Hello Guifa, I'm not a new user even though my contributions are a little bit poor. I only wrote some useful and brief articles on Uruguayan geography, most of which were read by native speakers and corrected in the way they considered more appropriate. My aim is to keep in touch with people from USA, UK, Canada and other English-speaking countries. As you may notice I'm a Spanish native speaker, born and raised in Uruguay, South America but living in Catalonia, Spain (near the border with Andorra and France). Among my interests are American and English literature, language, American culture and geography, etc. I study English linguistics at college, in order to become a teacher someday..ah.. and by the way, I'm 20 years old. In the Spanish wikipedia, I wrote a large list of American authors from Beecher Stowe, Douglass, Chopin, Smith, Garrison Lloyd and Bradstreet to Rowlandson (most of them are translated from English into Spanish). Right now, I'm writing about Canadian territories and provinces, and about the American State of Idaho. William Shakespeare is the most important I've ever written before, and also has a star :) Well, that's all for now and sorry if you report some terrible spelling mistakes (sometimes I don't know how to write or in which way I should do it). I hope you can help me in my stay and let me feel comfortable in this wonderful experience, being my second place in wikipedia (after the Spanish one) and my third home. Kind regards,--Gustavo86 02:52, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Texas in the South
Hi, I was just wondering what your opinion on Texas being part of the South is. There has been some debate about this; 86% of Texans consider themselves Southerners, and Texas was part of the Confederacy, but many non-Texans group Texas with the Southwest. If we can get the opinions of people from the Deep South about Texas, it would help. Thanks! --Stallions2010 19:53, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
