The Holy Innocents (1984)

Belén Ballesteros: Nieves

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Quotes 

• Quirce : [subtitled version] 

  [reading a book at the table while his father Paco, his mother Régula and his sister Nieves are listening] 

  Quirce : "B" and "a" reads "ba", "b" and "e" reads "bi"... with "i", you say "bi" or "bai", with "o" we say "bou"...

  Paco, El Bajo : Go on.

  Quirce : ..."c" and "a" reads "sei"...

  [Paco denies with a gesture] 

  Quirce : ... with "e", we say "si"... "c" and "o" read "sou", with "u", we say "su".

  Paco, El Bajo : That is wrong. "C" and "a" do not read "sei"... but "kei", with "o", it is not "sou", but "kou"...

  [he thinks about what he has just said] 

  Paco, El Bajo : and with "u", it is "ku".

  Quirce : Why is that, father?

  Paco, El Bajo : It sounds like nonsense but Master Lucas says... it's because of Grammar. You'll have to ask the scholars why. "G" and "a" reads "ga", with "i", it's "yi"... like a horse. I guess it's Grammar.

  Nieves : If "c" and "i", reads "si"... and "s" and "i" reads "si" too, why do we need both?

  Paco, El Bajo : [he shows indiifference]  Ask the scholars.