Kategori: Metalinguistics
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Dear One
Would it just be possible to somehow churn out something in English these days? Frankly speaking, I am at a loss, have I abandoned the I which speaketh the Bard’s tongue? And do tell, why is it that I harbor no animosity towards Shakespeare yet I do so towards el Manco de Lepanto? Isn’t there…
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Limpia, fija y da esplendor
“Limpia, fija y da esplendorâ€. Estos tres verbos resumen a la perfección el espíritu de la Real Academia, su entrega absoluta al propósito de combatir cuanto altera la elegancia y la pureza de nuestro idioma y de fijarlo en el estado de plenitud alcanzado desde el siglo XVI. Me da curiosidad este labor purista de…
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Cruising Chula Vista a tad.
Veo una comunidad más relajada en la cuestión lingíüística. Uno se deja llevar por lo que dicen los medios cuyos estereotipos abundan y opacan el ámbito social con una especie de hollín urbano; poder escuchar una plétora de voces de la torre de Babel en ésta ciudad moderna sanduiegina es causa de sorpresa. Esto sugiere…
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tenkius, denankius.
While denankius can trace its origin to mockery of the imitation of saying de nada with an Anglo pronunciation thus producing the lexeme denankius its ramifications are yet to be explored. Denankius occurs because we southwestern peeps try to do a reduplication, a rhyme if you will. tenkius, denankius. Denankius arises as a silly imitation…
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tenkius, denankius.
While denankius can trace its origin to mockery of the imitation of saying de nada with an Anglo pronunciation thus producing the lexeme denankius its ramifications are yet to be explored. Denankius occurs because we southwestern peeps try to do a reduplication, a rhyme if you will. tenkius, denankius. Denankius arises as a silly imitation…
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Useless
With the English Only debate raging across the states of the US and a personal conclusion along the linguistic lines of learning a new language there is much to be said regards the topic at hand. English Only is one of those distracting issues which political Republicans in the dual political establishment of Washington tend…