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<p>[QUOTE="verybrad, post: 64038, member: 37"]My Spanish is as rusty as all of yours but this is what I get after reading the above and some google help. ....</p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>In 1922, (Something) to Octaviano Padilla stumbled on to a lost soul of a woman. Frightened, he immediately invoked the Santo Nino de Atocha who saved him from the tremendous shock and scared the ugly apparition away. In appreciation of the favor in Chilapa Guerrero, Mr. Octaviano Padilla</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>So much of Spanish is idiomatic and you can't take it too literally. You almost have to read between the lines or, better yet, think in Spanish to make more sense of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't get the word just before his name in the first line. I have tried several different spellings and come up blank. I also think it odd that <i>Mr</i> was used at the very end so maybe it means something besides Mister. Typically, one would use Sr. for Señor.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="verybrad, post: 64038, member: 37"]My Spanish is as rusty as all of yours but this is what I get after reading the above and some google help. .... [I] In 1922, (Something) to Octaviano Padilla stumbled on to a lost soul of a woman. Frightened, he immediately invoked the Santo Nino de Atocha who saved him from the tremendous shock and scared the ugly apparition away. In appreciation of the favor in Chilapa Guerrero, Mr. Octaviano Padilla [/I] So much of Spanish is idiomatic and you can't take it too literally. You almost have to read between the lines or, better yet, think in Spanish to make more sense of it. I don't get the word just before his name in the first line. I have tried several different spellings and come up blank. I also think it odd that [I]Mr[/I] was used at the very end so maybe it means something besides Mister. Typically, one would use Sr. for Señor.[/QUOTE]
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