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  • The blog Un Boliviano en Argentina [es], written by Juan Vasquez, a Bolivian immigrant living in Argentina posts a cultural question that discusses the problem inherent to culture and idiosyncracy: un tiempo atras en una conversacion con unos compañeros, discutimos por un tema puntual dentro de la colectividad, q es la del trabajo infantil.

    Global Voices in English » Latin America: The Problem of Child Labor – Part II 2009

  • The blog Un Boliviano en Argentina [es], written by Juan Vasquez, a Bolivian immigrant living in Argentina posts a cultural question that discusses the problem inherent to culture and idiosyncracy: un tiempo atras en una conversacion con unos compañeros, discutimos por un tema puntual dentro de la colectividad, q es la del trabajo infantil.

    Latin America: The Problem of Child Labor - Part II 2009

  • Page 36 serve for the resort and refuge of masterles men and other idle and evill dispozed persons, and are the cause of cozenages, thefts, and other dishonest conversacion and may also be used to cover dangerous practizes.

    Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner Jessica A. Browner 1994

  • 'Ni yo tenia con él trato ni conversacion ordinaria; antes se pasaba un año y dos años que no le veia ni hablaba ....

    Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

  • 'Ni yo tenia con el trato ni conversacion ordinaria; antes se pasaba un ano y dos anos que no le veia ni hablaba ....

    Fray Luis de Leon Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James 1921

  • There we find simply, that “the admiral was surprised to see the inhabitants of Paria, and those of the island of Trinidad, better made, more civilized (de buena conversacion), and whiter than the natives whom he had previously seen.”

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • Se vera VM. que yo no escribo Portugues ni aun lo hablo, pero, haviendo aprendido el Castellano, no nos faltará medio de communicar y tener conversacion.

    Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823

  • Etymology: Middle English conversacioun, from Anglo-French conversacion, from Latin conversation -, conversatio, from conversari to associate with, frequentative of convertere to turn around

    Pirates! Man your Women! Gypsy 2010

  • But the orders of service of war, beyng altogether corrupted, and a greate waie from the auncient maners altered, there hath growen these sinisterous opinions, which maketh men to hate the warlike service, and to flie the conversacion of those that dooe exercise it.

    Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

  • Bush y no con Estados Unidos, este es el momento '', relato Lula sobre una conversacion que tu […] '>

    Plan Colombia and Beyond 2009

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