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[Christine Fink]

Buenos Dias, Aeryn!

Before I answered you, I wanted to make sure that what I said was correct, 
so that if I was not then I could apologize. Well, I just got off the phone 
with my old Spanish instructor that I mentioned previously. She said that 
yes in Spain during the time period that they had kings, queens, etc. that 
the title for a lord or lady of the court was Don or Dona, respectively. The 
use of Senor, Senorita, and Senora was primarily used for those that were 
not of the court (ie. merchants, and peasants and the like). Now in Mexico 
and some other Spanish speaking countries and now currently in Spain, the 
title of Senor changes to "mister, lord or gentleman". Don and Dona are 
still used in Spain, but not quite as much.

I understand the confusion. Languages can vary greatly from one country to 
the next. As an example, my mundane mother is Cajun (born and raised). Her 
grandmother only spoke French. So in high school she decided to take French 
so that she could converse with her grandmother. After a couple of 
semesters, she felt that she was ready to hold a simple conversation with 
her grandmother. Little did she know that the Cajun language is vastly 
different from proper French. During the conversation, she asked my 
grandmother a question. But, she could not understand why she flew into a 
rage and tore into my mother's mother! In the Cajun language, she had asked 
her grandmother a very rude and obscene question! OOPS! (we still tease her 
over that to this day...hehe)

In service,
Maria


----Original Message Follows----
I am more familiar with French, but I wonder if -- as both are Romance
languages-your translation of Senor as Mister, etc., is exactly accurate.
Reasons follow:

1. In French Monsieur literally translates as my (mon) lord (sieur) and has 
been rendered as mister in the more egalitarian mundane world.

2. In the Spanish version of the Lord have mercy (or Grant this oh Lord - I 
forget which as it has been a while since I heard a liturgy in Spanish) the 
phrase is Senor  Rogamo (spelling is iffy at best as I only heard the phrase 
- If you want a real laugh ask me to spell Liturgical Serbian)

Aeryn
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