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(12,484 posts)DFW
(54,437 posts)An impostor, or just Republicanese at its most intricate ??
WarGamer
(12,484 posts)I was simply commenting that the common name used is anglicized.
jimfields33
(15,965 posts)Her Twitter handle is @repMTG so the tweet might not be from Greene herself.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,613 posts)@mtgreenee is her personal Twitter account. Someone else got @mtgreene.
jimfields33
(15,965 posts)DFW
(54,437 posts)I wasn't commenting on the explorer's Italian name, which appears to have been adapted from the original Iberian version anyway. In Catalunya, the locals claim that he was from the Kingdom of Aragón, and thus probably a native speaker of Catalan, in which case his real name would have been Colom, or Colón in Castilian. Texts in Catalan predate tests in Castilian by a century, so it's hard to tell what the lingua franca would have been in any given area in the late fifteenth century. Several Mediterranean cultures seem to want to claim the man as their native son.
WarGamer
(12,484 posts)I posted at haste, and the rest is history. I have three weeks from hell coming up, and am trying to prepare for them while perusing mail and DU at the same time. Distractions are inevitable, I fear.
ProfessorGAC
(65,182 posts)The country is South America is spelled C-o-l-O-m-b-i-a. With an O.
Of course, it's a Spanish language country.
(Food's good there, too. I've been there at least a half dozen times.)
Retrograde
(10,158 posts)I observe "Encounter Day". Columbus by most accounts I've read was a decent sailor but a poor excuse for a human being.