@YEZ @IsaacMoses (Just catching up on backread.) It's Catalan.

@msh210 How did you determine that?

@IsaacMoses Checked en.wiktionary.org/wiki/contrari and en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doni and en.wiktionary.org/wiki/com

And now I see you've already figured that out.

@msh210 Cooool

@msh210 Always happy to learn a new net-enabled sleuthing technique

@IsaacMoses Wiktionary tends to be pretty accurate (though of course it's not completely reliable). Whenever I doubt a Google translation, I check any suspect words there.

Or, as in this case, when I wish to identify a language.

Incidentally, I see the tweeter claims to be in Barcelona, which is another hint that it's Catalan.

@msh210 ... to someone familiar with the linguo-geography of Spain, which I guess you are

@IsaacMoses I'm not really, but am to the extent that I know Barcelona is in the Catalan-speaking semi-autonomous-or-something region of Spain.

@msh210 I had never heard of Catalan until my brother threw it out there. For all I knew he was pulling my leg.

@YEZ Yeah. It seems that many people think the Romance languages are Italian, Portuguese, French, and Spanish. Besides Catalan, there are Romansch, Romanian (a big one), and a whole slew of small regional languages in Romance-speaking countries (Italy for example).

Oh, and Galician. Like Catalan, it's got its proponents in Spain, and I think they also have their own autonomous region or something. Anyway, I've gtg. Have a tzt.

abrupt departure.

@msh210 TZT

I'm going to be annoyed if this doesn't get a single upvote. It's one of those answers that I actually spent time on (I'm learning keitzad mevarchim right now).

@msh210 Sorry, I meant: Espero que Déu fa que la seva zona horària bona

@YEZ Y"K

@IsaacMoses I bet I could guess where that vote came from.

@YEZ Yes; sorry. I had to run.

@IsaacMoses :-)

@YEZ Catalan is actually the official language of Andorra. And it's not a minority language in Spain, the way Irish is here in Ireland. When I was in Barcelona, I saw big billboard ads in Catalan. And in Sagrada Família, there's a documentary film on a loop in Catalan, English, and Castillian Spanish. The two non-Catalan versions have Catalan subtitles.

@msh210 Romanian is weird, though, because it's a Romance language with strong Slavic and Balkan influences. For example, articles come after nouns instead of before.

@TRiG claytonecramer.blogspot.com/2012/06/…

How do I link to a mechon mamre page to open up in the middle of the page to exactly the verse I want? As in when the posuk is in the middle of the perek and the pages go by perek.

@YEZ #5 at the end of the URL should get you verse/halacha 5.

eg. http://mechon-mamre.org/i/t/t2732.htm#2

@TRiG It's majority in Barcelona and the vicinity, yes, but I think it's a minority language in Spain as a whole. But perhaps I should check that. (Cf.

)

... Yes: "As a percentage of the general population, Basque is spoken by 2%, Catalan (or Valencian) by 17%, and Galician by 7% of all Spaniards." -- Wikipedia.

@TRiG Interesting.

@msh210 I had to look hard to find the Occitan after seeing it in the key. :-)

@MonicaCellio I worked backwards - when I saw the little dot of turquoise I had to find who was responsible for that speck.

@DoubleAA where is the Rashash that I incompletely referenced about eating chometz in lieu of burning?

@YEZ I think the Ra'avyah is the shita who holds that Biyur Chametz can be done by eating. - IIRC

@GeminiMan It's the Baal Hamaor.

@DoubleAA I know where I quoted it - I was hoping you knew where the Rashash was, since you seemed familiar with it.

@DoubleAA I knew it began with the letter X.

I have to run but I can answer the above in a few hours (if no one beats me to it)

Rashash is Pesachim 21b. And I'm not sure why his suggestion would be unadvisable acc. to other opinions.