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Aerolineas official magazine refers to the Islands as the Falklands
Argentina's flag carrier Aerolineas Argentinas has been caught with its official bi-lingual magazine, “Alta”, committing a major “sin”. The magazine can be found in all aircraft seat pockets and in a reference to the Falkland/Malvinas Islands, the company apparently apologized for having committed a “translation excess”. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesMore of the usual idiocy. The article in English correctly referred to the place name in English, and the Silly People can't understand that?
Sep 06th, 2016 - 07:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What is even more intriguing is that the Ministry of Truth censors allowed the observation by the Argie person being interviewed that the Falklands are not Argentine !! (“....such a beautiful place, it hurts that it's not ours...”)
Lol.
Sep 06th, 2016 - 07:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Bahahahahahaha… ..!
Sep 06th, 2016 - 07:36 pm - Link - Report abuse -1“ one of the rules is that proper names usually are not translated”
Sep 06th, 2016 - 09:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“En Londres” ... “In London”
Um, yeah, sure they're not...
“The complainants point out that one of the rules is that proper names usually are not translated,”
Sep 06th, 2016 - 10:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In that case, the rules were broken. The proper name Falklands should also have been used in the Argentinian version.
Even a blind hog manages to find an acorn every once in a while.
Sep 06th, 2016 - 10:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0En los países civilizados llamamos a las cosas por su nombre. Al pan, pan; y al vino, vino; a Las Falklands, Las Falklands.
Sep 06th, 2016 - 11:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Es come me voy enojar cuando un Argentino me llama Holandés, mientras vengo de Nederland.... Asi, se puede enojar para siempre....
Sep 07th, 2016 - 12:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0@8 Nice try. Not quite Spanish, but it's a nice try, and we understand what you meant.
Sep 07th, 2016 - 01:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0OMG. Argentina should seriously give consideration to the resumption of capital punishment for this crime.
Sep 07th, 2016 - 08:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yet another example of how the Argentine Leopard is totally unable to change its spots -clamber out of 19th century colonialism , and finally enter the modern world.
Sep 07th, 2016 - 09:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0Good for Aerolineas - but maybe they might have less upset the frantic lunatics in B.A. if they had given the UN English name from their side of Malvinas/Falklands or Falklands/Malvinas.
Malvinas is indeed as Spanish language name NOT English. As others have said - do they say Londres or Nueva York in their English section!
@11 Islander1
Sep 07th, 2016 - 10:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0So, when the FIG print materials in Spanish, do they write 'Las Malvinas' or 'Las Falklands'?
I am a fervent supporter of the Falklands cause.
Sep 07th, 2016 - 10:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0BUT, I have no problem when Argentina, in Spanish, calls the islands Malvinas. Equally, I have no problem when the French call the islands Malouinnes. Both these uses are used officially by the United Nations.
Now, what the Chinese and the Russians call the islands is totally incorrect but then, of course, they support the ill founded and stupid Argentine claims to sovereignty of the islands which is, of court based on fairy tales, myths, lies and misinterpreted historical events.
Nothing more logical that Argentina reconsiders its mistake as for the British Falklands. Times have changed and theFalkklands were NEVER and WILL NEVER be partofArgentina.
Sep 07th, 2016 - 11:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hmmm.... 'The complainants point out that one of the rules is that proper names usually are not translated', .....What, you mean like the answer to the second question using 'Europa' and than translating it in English to.........wait for it..... 'Europe'. Yeah, sounds like you made that rule up.
Sep 07th, 2016 - 11:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0”In effect in what is considered the main piece of the magazine Alta, an interview with one of Argentina's leading best-selling authors and historian,...I thought maybe Victoria Xipolitakis was a best selling author. In the news yesterday her biography?? was selling for a total of 950 pesos...more than legitimate writers. Unbelievable.
Sep 07th, 2016 - 11:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0(12) Mr. DemonTree
Sep 07th, 2016 - 12:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Be warned...
If you keep that logical attitude up, you will inexorably be accused of being one of Think's sockpuppets...
You mean he wont be an Anglo turnip like the rest of us,
Sep 07th, 2016 - 12:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0surely not. lolol
@17 Think
Sep 07th, 2016 - 06:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Now why would that be? Have you had a lot of sockpuppets here?
In a sane world, everyone would write Falklands in English and Malvinas in Spanish and no one would care either way. But we don't live in a sane world. The name used has political implications, hence the ridiculous fuss.
I had a look at the PDF produced by the FIG about the student competition, and it's exactly the same. They write 'Reino Unido', but 'las Islas Falkland'.
The people complaining should just admit that it's all political posturing rather than making excuses about not translating names.
(19) Mr. DemonTree
Sep 07th, 2016 - 06:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nope, no sockpuppets from this one and only humble Patagonian...
But, if you were to look into MercoPress's archives..., you would find out that many a Thinking poster in here..., Anglo, Argie or whatever, have been acused of being such...
Such blatant lying.
Sep 07th, 2016 - 10:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Can't say anyone is surprised.
Demon Tree @ 19
Sep 07th, 2016 - 10:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not sure who's “sock” you are either... but your somewhat friendly repartee with “Think”, sounds a bit contrived, just like the failed subterfuges he tried to pull with some of his previous sock puppets and alter-egos.
He would try to establish an 'independent' false identity by having fake discussions with the new identity.
”(19) Mr. DemonTree
Nope, no sockpuppets from this one and only humble Patagonian..“
Of course, those of us who have been on here for several years remember his colossal blunder wherein he exposed his most elaborate false-persona, ”Dove OverDover“.
Commander DoD as we called him, was an outdated caricature of a retired RN officer who claimed Scots blood and a hatred of the Engrish. He was racist and pretentious, and generally offensive all around - Think's doppelgänger.
He was replaced shortly after by ”Voice“, an offensive sock claiming to live in Scotland and hating the Engrish.
Not much of a stretch, is it?!
”Think“ also exposed his low-key 5th columnist persona, ”Surfer“.
”Think/Voice/DoD/Surfer/etc. is a known liar.
So, carry on with your charade, it's all very amusing - can't wait until the carefully non-partisan DT reveals his true nature.
Ozzie turnip at (21)
Sep 07th, 2016 - 10:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Are you referring to my post above Skippy?
Wasn't you that accused Mr. Heisenbergcontext, that Logical Thinking Aussie poster of being a sockpuppet of mine???
He made you eat some humble pie... Didn't he?
Chuckle, chuckle...
And yet I won't lie that I didn't do that.
Sep 07th, 2016 - 11:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Unlike you. Who enjoys lying.
Hardly surprising. Hardly surprising at all.
What an interesting country that produces people that find lying so acceptable.
All rgs lie.
Sep 07th, 2016 - 11:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 022
Sep 08th, 2016 - 12:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0.......
And so you're back
From outer space
I just walked in to find you here with that stupid look upon your face
I should have changed that stupid lock, I should have made you leave your key
If I'd known for just one second you'd be back to bother me
Go on now, go, walk out the door
Just turn around now
'Cause you're not welcome anymore
Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye?
Did you think I'd crumble?
Did you think I'd lay down and die?
Oh, no, not I!
I will survive.
Oh, as long as I know how to post I know I'll stay alive.
I've got all my life to live.
I've got lots of stick to give.
And I'll survive,
I will survive, hey, hey.....
...now didn't you say that if ever someone posted again with the name...Troy Tempest...it wouldn't be you....are you a liar boy...? are you...?
.....;-))))))))))
Mr. DemonTree
Sep 08th, 2016 - 12:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0As we can read at (22),..., my warning at (17) was spot on...
@27 Think
Sep 08th, 2016 - 11:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yeah, 'warning'. Attempt to stir up trouble more like.
I think I preferred it when you were calling me an Anglo turnip.
@22 Troy Tempest
Repartee? I replied to him once in this comment thread!
I've never seen you post here before so you probably haven't actually read anything I've written. I haven't seen Think show any interest in some of the topics I've commented on and I'm not non-partisan. It makes little difference who you think I am anyway; you can judge my comments on their own merits.
Thanks for the list of Think sockpuppets though, maybe I'll look them up if I get bored.
Argentina will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Peoples Republic of China within 25 years.
Sep 08th, 2016 - 01:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(28) Mr. DemonTree...
Sep 08th, 2016 - 02:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Did I ever call you a Turnip?
As I wrote a couple of years ago (to a Shilean poster that, curiously, also was accused of being one sockpuppet of mine) ...:
...“I can assure you that the criteria I use to include any poster into my “Turnip” list is quite stringent... It involves, at least a combination of personal insults, complete disregard for comprobable facts and unjustified haughtiness...”
http://en.mercopress.com/2014/08/22/argentina-suspends-beef-exports-15-days-to-contain-domestic-prices#comment347058
(Rereading that thread of 2014,I can see that, following the Turnips theory of Mr. Think's multiple sockpuppets, I had an extremly civilized chat at the time with three or four myselves!)
Chuckle chuckle...
@30 Think
Sep 08th, 2016 - 05:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Did I ever call you a Turnip?”
Yes. In (IIRC) your first ever reply to me:
http://en.mercopress.com/2016/08/13/argentina-could-receive-a-squadron-of-mirage-f1-air-force-will-have-no-combat-aircraft-by-2018#comment446548
Also here:
http://en.mercopress.com/2016/08/13/argentina-could-receive-a-squadron-of-mirage-f1-air-force-will-have-no-combat-aircraft-by-2018#comment446548
Not sure exactly what I'm supposed to have done to meet your 'stringent' criteria, but I'd say you've comfortably managed to meet them all yourself in just those two threads.
Turnip.
Mr. DemonTree
Sep 08th, 2016 - 06:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Must have been one of me bad days...
You obviously only met half of my stringent criteria...
Therefore, I did take you out of “Ze Turnip Lizt”... Didn't I?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G1HwKA0J-gU
26 Voice
Sep 08th, 2016 - 06:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0very poetic, thanks.
So everywhere must now refer to Germany as Deutschland, Japan as Nihon and Argentina as Lalaland.
Sep 08th, 2016 - 09:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0?
Sep 09th, 2016 - 12:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0England will return the Malvinas within 25 years.
Sep 11th, 2016 - 04:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hepatia will return the Malvinas within 25 years.
Sep 11th, 2016 - 07:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hep C , remember when you fist posted that claim, can you recall that year? Does that 25 year clock ever wind down?
Sep 12th, 2016 - 10:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0For crissake, Hepathetic, don't you understand that England doesn't have any malvinas? I do recall that Argentina has a Malvinas, in Córdoba province. It's a dirt-poor, backward, and nasty little town, like so many places in that part of Argentina. Perhaps you can get Córdoba to return your long-lost malvinas within 25 years.
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