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--- On Mon, 9/1/08, Mark G <codename_gimmick@hidden.email> wrote: >I know Pilovese is a bit displaced from Iberia, but in Spanish, a very >common way to tell someone or something to bugger off is simply >"basta!"/"enough! " I'm sure you might already know this, but that's >actually a verb rather than a noun, but point is you could do the same >thing with a third-person noun of a similar sort... something to say >"that will do!" in a very forceful way. "Basta" works in the Philippines, too, on account of the Spanish influenve, though I don't think it's either a verb or a noun. Basta, I'll have to ask! ;) Padraic