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the country's wind parks. (They are so big that no one seems to call them `farms'.)

It's just that in Spanish parque eólico sounds natural and granja eólica sounds strained. Farm is strictly an agriculture station. We don't talk about server farms either in the computing context, I don't think.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Nov 22nd, 2009 at 04:32:09 AM EST
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