How do you embed a youtube video in your post?

[Enrique]

I write
[YOUTUBE]youtube_url[/YOUTUBE]
but nothing happens. Is there a button to do this?

[Peter]

Yes Enrique, there is a button - it is to the left of the quote symbol " on the menu bar

[Enrique]

Thanks Peter. I don't have a quotation symbol on the edit window. I'm sending a screenshot of the latter:

[Peter]

Possibly if you click on those 3 dots it will give you more options - on my edit bar it is next to the image symbol where those dots are!

[Enrique]

You are right. Clicking on the 3 dots there appears the 'Insert video' icon, just to the left of the quotation symbol! Thanks a lot, Peter!

[Quijote]

You are right. Clicking on the 3 dots there appears the 'Insert video' icon, just to the left of the quotation symbol! Thanks a lot, Peter!

Hola, Enrique. Do you want to try and post / insert a YouTube video to see if it works for you?

Here's a video from a famous Argentine composer that you might like - Alberto Ginestra - also from Buenos Aires.

[Enrique]

Hola Quijote. I already did several times. And it works (for me). Thanks for the video! I once met Ginastera. I was walking with a friend of mine by the street, and suddenly he said: that is Ginastera! I asked him what was he doing and the master said: I went out to see La naranja mecanica (A Clockwork Orange) but they have censured it!

[Quijote]

Hola Quijote. I already did several times. And it works (for me). Thanks for the video! I once met Ginastera. I was walking with a friend of mine by the street, and suddenly he said: that is Ginastera! I asked him what was he doing and the master said: I went out to see La naranja mecanica (A Clockwork Orange) but they have censured it!

Great anecdote, Enrique. Did you get his autograph?

Do you know his opera Bomarzo? I once read this study of this opera and the trials and tribulations he had getting it performed.

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[Enrique]

Great anecdote, Enrique. Did you get his autograph?

Do you know his opera Bomarzo? I once read this study of this opera and the trials and tribulations he had getting it performed.

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I believe I didn't. Bomarzo dio mucho que hablar in Buenos Aires. I saw it in the Colon.

[Quijote]

I believe I didn't. Bomarzo dio mucho que hablar in Buenos Aires. I saw it in the Colon.

Yes, the book I mentioned above spoke about the "hot topic" that Bomarzo was in Buenos Aires at that time (dar mucho que hablar = gave much to talk about, created a "buzz", was a "hot topic", etc.).
You saw it in the Colon! An iconic institution in South America, like La Scala in Milan!
Did you enjoy the opera?

[Quijote]

Dear Enrique, may I ask you about your opinion concerning the Falkland Islands and that conflict? My Spanish family call them Las Malvinas.

I was a young man when the British sent over a task force to reclaim the islands. I was often in conflict with British friends who thoroughly embraced the jingoistic fervour created by the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

May I say straight away that the Argentine junta was totally wrong to invade the islands by force. Surely diplomacy and negotiation is the way to go, pace Russia.

That said, I always found it strange that the UK would want to hold on to a god-forsaken territory with a population of only several hundreds, and lots of sheep. I feel the same (as a half-Spaniard) about Gibraltar.

I ask myself how the British would feel if the Spanish had a historic right to the Isle of White or the Jersey Islands.

Again, such "historic discomforts" require reasoned diplomacy, not belligerent intervention.

[Enrique]

Yes, the book I mentioned above spoke about the "hot topic" that Bomarzo was in Buenos Aires at that time (dar mucho que hablar = gave much to talk about, created a "buzz", was a "hot topic", etc.).
You saw it in the Colon! An iconic institution in South America, like La Scala in Milan!
Did you enjoy the opera?

Bomarzo was quite an experience for me, specially since I am not acquainted with contemporary opera, save R.Strauss' operas.

[Enrique]

Dear Enrique, may I ask you about your opinion concerning the Falkland Islands and that conflict? My Spanish family call them Las Malvinas.

I was a young man when the British sent over a task force to reclaim the islands. I was often in conflict with British friends who thoroughly embraced the jingoistic fervour created by the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

May I say straight away that the Argentine junta was totally wrong to invade the islands by force. Surely diplomacy and negotiation is the way to go, pace Russia.

That said, I always found it strange that the UK would want to hold on to a god-forsaken territory with a population of only several hundreds, and lots of sheep. I feel the same (as a half-Spaniard) about Gibraltar.

I ask myself how the British would feel if the Spanish had a historic right to the Isle of White or the Jersey Islands.

Again, such "historic discomforts" require reasoned diplomacy, not belligerent intervention.

I quite agree. Who is the legitimate owner? Well, on the one hand, the islands are in the Argentine plataforma continental. On the other hand, the British were who first populated them. So... I don't know.

[Quijote]

I quite agree. Who is the legitimate owner? Well, on the one hand, the islands are in the Argentine plataforma continental. On the other hand, the British were who first populated them. So... I don't know.

Dear Enrique, a very diplomatic answer!!