Re: Articles with propper names (was RE: Same name (was ...))

At 06:10 AM 4/26/2000, Pablo wrote:
>Carlos Eugenio Thompson (EDC) <EDCCET@...> wrote:
>
> >> I like that, "the Elizabeth"! If Valdyan had any articles, I'd
> >> probably give proper names the definite article as well :-)
> >>
> >Some dialect in Spanish, mainly in the Quechua influenced area: Chile,
> >Bolivia, Perú, Ecuador and Southern Colombia, use the definite article with
> >personal names.  All dialects uses article (or posesive pronoun) with
> >titles.
>
>Yes, "el doctor", "la señora", etc. The definite article with personal
>names is common in Argentina; it's considered uneducated, but is very
>frequent within families and for some popular figures (Diego Maradona,
>for example, is "el Diego" for most Argentine men), and a folklore
>singer, Soledad Pastorutti, is "la Sole". :)
My professor said that at least in the Spanish spoken in the southwestern
US, putting a definite article before a personal name is often taken as
derogatory. Is this true of other dialects?

Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo