Chile Forum

It is true that foreign influences change or corrupt the speech of the natives. American accents over the past few -- five or six -- generations have changed greatly, chiefly because of the influence of German and Irish immigrants. Until the mid nineteenth century, accents of native-born Americans tended to be very similar to those of native-born Englishmen.

But I'm not so certain that either the speech of aborigines or that of immigrants influenced Columbian accents much. Perhaps the difference lies in a greater proportion of women among the Spaniards who settled present-day Colombia than among those who settled other parts of Latin America, so that children learned a purer Spanish from their mothers' tongues. Merely my speculation: I don't know that much about Columbian history.

admin wrote:anyone find any video of the northern chile quake? Seems odd that no security cameras got a shot of it.

There are some videos on liveleak.com but that site may be deemed offensive by some as it is mostly uncensored.

First on the TV issue, I have not owned a TV on a regular basis for at least 10 or 12 years. I even pay for cable, but have no TV (internet and phone, cable comes with the package). I think my total hours watching cable this year was about 10 hours, and most of that was in Hotel rooms as I was traveling.

Keeps my brain from rotting. All my media comes through the internet for the most part, plus some local papers.


Yea, I had some friends from Colombia visit for a couple of weeks. I don't think I had to ask them to repeat themselves more than perhaps once or twice in two weeks.

I have been to Spain, and I have had several Spanish teachers from Madrid. I don't find Spain Spanish any easier to understand really. I also don't find Spanish in Peru that much easier to understand. I would expect the linguistic drift would be fairly small between the two countries, but at least to my ear it does not seem to be.

There is some sort of theory (I am not sure I buy it), that the larger the distance between a language population and the source of its origin, the more "frozen" in time it gets relative to the time it migrated.

Yea, that one was thrown out there by a Shakespear professor I had years ago. Through all my linguistic related courses I suffered through in graduate school, I don't recall anyone even trying to test the waters with a similar theory.

I don't believe you can stop language evolution and still have a natural language. It is a very fast moving target. That is why dictionaries need updating, and Children will invent more words than dictionaries can hold, and Colombians likely sound nothing like their 15th century Spanish ancestors.

I strongly urge everyone to have look at this. It has my vote as one of the most under reported natural disasters of 2007:

The pdf version
http://www.allchile.net/storm/HISTORICAGRANIZADA.pdf

and the power point version:
http://www.allchile.net/storm/HISTORICAGRANIZADA.ppt[/quote]

Admin, the incident appears to be truly "teslafying." Geting out.

Sorry G, did not understand that last one.

I see in the papers there are protest up Norther regarding the governments slow action.

Michelle Bachelet is looking more and more like a president of Santiago, not Chile.

The stories I am hearing about the public health system in the South are shameful considering the president is a doctor herself.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071118/wl_ ... e_chile_dc

Another aftershock strikes northern Chile Sun Nov 18, 8:41 AM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 5.6 magnitude earthquake rattled northern Chile on Sunday, the latest aftershock to hit the area since a deadly tremor on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Service said.

Slideshow: Strong earthquake hits Chile available at link

I discovered yesterday if you go to Google maps, and select the advance features there is a setting to allow you to see real time earthquakes around the world. The north of Chile has been lit up this week with dozens of medium size earthquakes.

Most look like they are outside population centers, so they likely do not get a lot of press.

found this to be quite interesting..

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/rec ... s_all.html

its the last 7 days of Earthquakes in the World

Chile has quite a few registered!

yea I believe the Google maps one uses the same source for its data, just plotted on the map with a radius circle and color codes.

I saw a link about two months ago to an Indian newspaper that reported on the presence of a potential supervolcano near the Peru/Chile border. Unfortunately, I cannot find it again. Has anyone seen this information?

G.S.

No such thing, its simply the nazca plate pressing against the continental in the SA elbow. Tonigth by 5AM I was installing some software and a strong movement saked Arica, epicentre was very near of the city, 60 km inland. Magnitude 5.5, no damages. Its good to keeps us alert.

There are a theory blaming to big minning blasts causing microquakes everyday who trigger those bigger quakes, It seems not verosimile to me, but who knows?, most of recent quakes has been inland

Skraeling wrote:I saw a link about two months ago to an Indian newspaper that reported on the presence of a potential supervolcano near the Peru/Chile border. Unfortunately, I cannot find it again. Has anyone seen this information?

G.S.

http://www.allchile.net/chileforum/view ... ght=vilama

There is one under Yellowstone in North America though, that they say is set to blow. The valley floor has been rising about 3 inches a year recently, and it tends to blow like old faithful every 65 million years ( it is currently been about 64 and half since the last one ). estimates are it is 100 times more powerful than mount saint Helens, and covers a couple of states.

I see there is was another 5.9 to 6.0 quake in Northern Chile today about 100 miles off the coast.

Yes, very near from Arica (60 km inland aprox), It was long and noisy but harmless, It is the Placa de Nazca messing again ;-D