Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/15

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Camera store senorita
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Sat Nov 15 21:05:35 2008
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You are absolutely correct, Steve. It is all Lluis's fault :-)

And then by coincidence some of us visited Barcelona (Geoff, myself,  
others) and the use of the word kind of became like a secret  
handshake, except that it is not secret and is available to all.

And if some elderly white male in California does not like that we use  
the term, tough...  :-)

Nathan

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On Nov 16, 2008, at 12:29 AM, Steve Barbour wrote:

>
> I seem to recall that the word came up first, because in fact it was  
> used when showing dazzling young women in Barcelona,
>
> where they are properly called senoritas,
>
> please correct me if I am wrong.
>
> Steve
>>


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