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El espanol escrito de California: Comentarios a la propaganda electoral (Segunda Parte) [The Written Spanish of California: A Commentary on Electoral Literature (Part Two)].
Aparicio Laurencio, Angel – Yelmo, 1979
Discusses the poor translation from English into Spanish of election material distributed by the county of Los Angeles. The translation errors in selected pamphlets are analyzed. (NCR)
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Information Dissemination, Language Attitudes, Pamphlets
El espanol escrito de California: Comentarios a la propaganda electoral (The Written Spanish of California: A Commentary on Electoral Literature).
Laurencio, Aparicio – Yelmo, 1978
Discusses the poor translations from English into Spanish of election material distrubuted by the county of Los Angeles. The translation errors in selected pamphlets are analyzed. (NCR)
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Information Dissemination, Language Attitudes, Pamphlets
Arboles, poetas y etimologias (Trees, Poets and Etymologies)
Aquino, Luis Hernandez – Yelmo, 1975
This article discusses the history of the Spanish word denoting a particular tree, "secoya," which found its origin in the name of the originator of the Cherokee alphabet "Sekwiyi," moving then into English and subsequently into Spanish. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Botany, Cherokee, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross Cultural Studies
El Espanol Escrito de California (Written Spanish of California)
Aparicio Laurencio, Angel – Yelmo, 1978
This article analyzes the Spanish version of the motorists' guide from the Department of Motor Vehicles of the state of California. There are many poor translations due to direct translation from the English. (NCR)
Descriptors: Government Publications, Grammar, Language Styles, Language Usage