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Upside-down marks, simple in the era of hand typesetting, were originally recommended by the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy), in the second edition of the Ortografía de la lengua castellana (Orthography of the Castilian language) in 1754 [3] recommending it as the symbol indicating the beginning of a question in written Spanish—e.g. "¿Cuántos años tienes?"
It is produced, edited and published by the Royal Spanish Academy, with the participation of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language. It was first published in 1780, as the Diccionario de la lengua castellana [2] and subsequent editions have been published about once a decade. The twenty-third edition was published in 2014; it is ...
In Colombia and Panama "la cagada" ("the shit") refers to something or someone that makes everything else go wrong or the one detail that is wrong about something (and is thus the complete opposite of the American slang the shit); e.g., Ese man es la cagada ("That dude is the shit" i.e. a fuck up/fucks everything up), La cagada aqui es el ...
I ask about the song’s meaning since the lyrics are all in Spanish, but Mosqueda shies away from giving me a definitive answer because it’s not meant to have one, he says. It’s up to the ...
Different etymologies have been suggested for the term español (Spanish). According to the Royal Spanish Academy, español derives from the Occitan word espaignol and that, in turn, derives from the Vulgar Latin * hispaniolus ('of Hispania'). [21] Hispania was the Roman name for the entire Iberian Peninsula.
This article is a summary of common slang words and phrases used in Puerto Rico.Idiomatic expressions may be difficult to translate fully and may have multiple meanings, so the English translations below may not reflect the full meaning of the expression they intend to translate.
You don't have to reinvent the wheel or be particularly profound to restart a conversation with someone you haven't spoken to in a while. Simple and friendly might do the trick.
Its users run the gamut from Spanish-dominant immigrants to native, balanced bilinguals to English-dominant semi-speakers and second-language speakers of Spanish, and even people who reject the use of Anglicisms have been found using so in Spanish. [36] Whether so is a simple loanword, or part of some deeper form of language mixing, is disputed.