[Marxism] The power of diacritics [Re: UFW Si Se Puede!]

["howard beeth" <beeth.howard@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Comrade Nestor: 



Check the front page of the _NY Times_ today. 



Check particularly the article entitled, "In Obama's Pursuit of Latinos, Race 
Plays Role". 



Check particularly a sentence in the first graph about a rally in Las Vegas he 
had with the largely Latino members of a culinary workers' union wherein he 
"pumped his fist and chanted with the crowd, 'Si, se puede; si, se puede; si, 
se puede!' or, 'Yes, we can!'" 



QED. 









 --- On Fri 01/11, =?UTF-8?Q?N=C3=A9stor_Gorojovsky?= < nmgoro@xxxxxxxxx > 
wrote:

From: =?UTF-8?Q?N=C3=A9stor_Gorojovsky?= [mailto: nmgoro@xxxxxxxxx]

To: beeth.howard@xxxxxxxxxx

Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:53:41 -0200

Subject: [Marxism] The power of diacritics [Re:  UFW Si Se Puede!]



The motto in Spanish is "Sí se puede", not "Si se puede". The first<br>one 
translates as "Yes, this can be done", and the second, as "If this<br>can be 
done". Not a minor difference. Sorry for pedantry, but this is<br>what 
languages are.<br><br>2008/1/11, Kathleen de la Peña McCook 
<kmccook@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:<br>> Well, it's not 'a clever soundbite'. It is the 
United Farm Workers<br>> motto that was used by Cesar Chavez's and Dolores 
Huerta in the early<br>> '70s.<br>><br>>  Kathleen de la Peña McCook<br>> 
http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/mccook<br>> ======<br>><br>> On 10 Jan 2008 at 
21:08, howard beeth wrote:<br>> Obama's new soundbite, "Yes, we can!", is a 
clever outreach to<br>> Hispanics. We'll hear him and his campaign mouth the 
English and<br>> Spanish version of it over and over in the weeks and months to 
come.<br>> A smart PR/marketing stroke.<br>><br>> 
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