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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?"
Since the 1980s, the Spanish submission has been decided annually by the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España (known in English as the Spanish Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences or AACCE). Beginning in 2001, the academy has announced a three-film shortlist before announcing the winning Spanish film.
There are 115 different rooted trees with exactly eight nodes, [2] 115 inequivalent ways of placing six rooks on a 6 × 6 chess board in such a way that no two of the rooks attack each other, [3] and 115 solutions to the stamp folding problem for a strip of seven stamps. [4] 115 is also a heptagonal pyramidal number. [5] The 115th Woodall number,
Spanish also features the T–V distinction, the pronoun that the speaker uses to address the interlocutor – formally or informally [c] – leading to the increasing number of verb forms. Most verbs have regular conjugation, which can be known from their infinitive form, which may end in -ar , -er , or -ir . [ 11 ]
The variants of Spanish spoken in Spain and its former colonies vary significantly in grammar and pronunciation, as well as in the use of idioms. Courses of Spanish as a second language commonly use Mexican Spanish in the United States and Canada, whereas European Spanish is typically preferred in Europe.
3 Brain Drain 2 (Fuga de cerebros 2) Universal: 796,137 5,025,460.16 4 The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito) Warner Bros. 722,960 4,585,877.25 5 No Rest for the Wicked (No habrá paz para los malvados) Warner Bros. 641,445 4,039,451.98 6 Even the Rain (También la lluvia) Alta Classics 619,315 3,901,297.53 7 Cousinhood (Primos) Warner Bros.
3 13 Roses (Las trece rosas) Alta Classics 786,438 4,321,579.77 4 Love Expresso (Café solo... o con ellas) Disney: 450,400 2,437,791.96 5 The Hairy Tooth Fairy (Pérez, el ratoncito de tus sueños) ‡ Barton Films / SGAE 423,514 2,182,273.79 6 The Nautical Chart (La carta esférica) Universal: 377,651 2,114,819.99 7 Ekipo Ja DeAPlaneta: 303,508
Unstressed pronouns in Old Spanish were governed by rules different from those in modern Spanish. [1] The old rules were more determined by syntax than by morphology: [ 2 ] the pronoun followed the verb, except when the verb was preceded (in the same clause) by a stressed word, such as a noun, adverb, or stressed pronoun.