Comments: SEPHARDIC CULTURE AT JBOOKS.

Sorry 'bout the off-topicness, but an e-mail link did not avail itself quickly...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/29/la_blogosfera/

Horribly meta and single-topic, but when I saw "Webjoernaalsfeer" I couldn't refrain.

Posted by ben at January 29, 2008 08:58 AM

As you know, we don't believe in sticking to the topic here at LH, so no problem, and Webjoernaalsfeer is well worth propagating. But when they say they want to "thank our Spanish chums for the indispensible barbecue, burrito, cocaine..." I have to point out that cocaine is not from Spanish. Coca, sí.

Posted by language hat at January 29, 2008 01:44 PM

For those who want to hear Ladino, I recommend the film "Every time we say goodbye", which is about an American Gentile soldier who falls in love with a Sephardic woman in Jerusalem during WWII. There is a good deal of dialogue in Ladino. (It's a nice film too.)

Posted by Bill Poser at January 29, 2008 03:13 PM