The Royal Spanish Academy is lopping two letters off the Spanish alphabet, reducing it to 27. Out go “ch” and “ll,” along with lots of annoying accents and hyphens.
You know, from my perspective when learning Spanish, I thought it was amazingly fluid and tremendously straightforward in its spelling and accents. This is no doubt reinforced from a ( Read more... )

When we start kicking around definitions and differences at work, google up something like this: As dull as ditchwater/dishwater and pretty much assume no one needs translation ;-).

Definite food for thought here. What struck me about this video was yet another way in which people equate spoken language with intelligence. Just note: the first three minutes of this video has only background sounds: I believe it's the water running, some humming, that sort of thing. After that, she uses a synthesized voice (judging from the ( Read more... )

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