失踪多年 鹦鹉不认主人且说西班牙语

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BBC Chinese, Oct 14, 2014
www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/2014/10/141014_parrot_language


, which is translated and shortened from

Donna Littlejohn, Talking Parrot Missing for 4 Years Found, Now Speaks Spanish. The Daily Breeze, Oct
www.dailybreeze.com/lifestyle/20 ... -now-speaks-spanish

Note:
(a) Daily Breeze
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Breeze
(a daily newspaper; Founded 1894; Headquarters  Torrance, Calif)

(b)
(i) Nigel
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel
(derived from the Latin Nigellus)
(ii) Latin English dictionary
nigellus (adj):”somewhat black”
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nigellus

(c) places
(i) Torrance, California
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrance,_California
(in Los Angeles County; named after real estate developer Jared Sidney Torrance in 1912)
(ii) “Micco, who lives in Redondo Beach and is an associate veterinarian at Pointe Vicente Animal Hospital in Rancho Palos Verdes”
(A) Redondo Beach, California
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redondo_Beach,_California

is on the northwestern border of Torrance.
* Redondo Beach Historical Museum. Welcome to the City of Redondo Beach, California, undated
www.redondo.org/depts/recreation ... cal_information.asp
(“1887 - Redondo Company buys 1,400 acres from Dominguez heirs. Land is bordered by Knob Hill, Herondo, Prospect, and the ocean. The name ‘Redondo’ is derived from the round shape and amphitheater topography”)
* Spanish English dictionary
redondo (adjective masculine): “round”
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/redondo
(B) Rancho Palos Verdes
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Palos_Verdes,_California
(Rancho Palos Verdes is translated as "Ranch of Green Trees" or "Ranch of Sticks", probably referring to the willows in the northeastern part of Bixby Slough (now known as Machado Lake) shown on earlier maps)
* palo verde (n; Spanish palo stick + verde green): “(US) Any of a variety of trees in the genus Parkinsonia, with characteristic green bark, found in desert areas of North America”
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/palo_verde
* palo verde
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Verde
(may refer to "Botany  American species of the plant genus Parkinsonia, deciduous small trees or large shrubs native to desert regions with a characteristic green trunk")
* Palo Alto, California
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California
(Spanish: palo: literally "stick", colloquial: "tree" and alto: "tall"; meaning: "tall tree"/ It [city] is named after a coast redwood tree called El Palo Alto)


(d) surnames
(i) The English surname Chick: "from Middle English chike ‘young fowl’ (a shortened form of chicken)"
(ii) The Italian surname Micco: "from a short form of the personal name Domenico, Latin [adjective masculine] Dominicus"

* Dominic
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic
(iii) The English and German surname Sperling: “from German [noun masculine] Sperling ‘sparrow”

(e) “Julissa Sperling, who owns Happy Tails with her husband, Jonathan, and was at home when the queries brought her to the door. ‘I opened the door and went out — nothing.’ When it happened again, she took a closer look and spotted the parrot. * * * ‘He was the happiest bird. He was singing and talking without control. ... He was barking like the dogs. I’m from Panama and he was saying, ‘What happened?’ in Spanish.”
(i) Julissa
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julissa
(born Julia Isabel de Llano Macedo; 1944- ; a Mexican actress)
(ii) Presumably Julisa is Hispanic, who took her husband’s last name Sperling.
(iii) “What happened?” in Spanish = ¿Qué pasa?

(f) Tomi Takemoto

The Japanese surname Takemoto can be 竹本 or 武本.