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Demonstratives in English and Spanish

Demonstratives are used to point to another element that they depend on to achieve their full meaning. If they point backwards, it is known as an anaphoric reference; those that

July 17, 2009

The Newest Grammar Hounds

Grammar hounds, and I include myself in this list, are those who are so obsessed with proper presentation of a language that even the slightest mistake or oversight in a

July 17, 2009

How to Abbreviate the United States of America in Spanish

Let’s clear up a few issues. The official name is: Estados Unidos de America. It can be written with or without the article: (los) Estados Unidos de América. If the

July 16, 2009

The Baltic Languages: Lithuanian and Latvian

Within the Indo-European language family are to be found the Baltic languages. The two languages of this subfamily that survive at present are Lithuanian and Latvian. Lithuanian is spoken by

July 13, 2009

Common Features of Languages

To begin with, a characteristic that is shared by all languages is that they are arbitrary, which is in its most elemental form is demonstrated in the absence of a

July 10, 2009

Armenian: an Independent Branch of the Indo-European Language Family

When the studying of Armenian began in the 19th century, it was believed that Armenian descended from Iranian, an error produced by the vast number of loans from that language.

July 6, 2009

The World Bank’s Language Policy

I never cease to discover new facts about the world that stun me to silence. Rebecca Harris at Foreign Policy recently published an article addressing problems that community groups in

July 6, 2009

The Use of the Period in English and Spanish

The period (full stop) is the punctuation mark that marks the grammatical and logical end of a sentence. The main difference comes from its greatest use in English. In Spanish,

July 3, 2009

Bloggers Unravelled

I’d like to briefly return to discuss the issue of the significant development that took place last month, culminating in the outing of the lauded author under the pseudonym of

July 1, 2009

Changes in Meaning: Evolution or Corruption?

Neatorama.com has posted an excerpt from Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader highlighting different words and expressions whose meanings are not the same now as they were in the past. The list

June 29, 2009

The Real Origins of the Albanian Language

Albanian is a macrolanguage spoken by roughly 15 million inhabitants of the Balkan peninsula, mainly in Albania, located in Europe’s southeastern corner. The oldest book to have been written in

June 26, 2009

Contemporary Theories on Translation: Nida and Steiner

The translation process is defined as the operation of obtaining the closest natural equivalent primarily in terms of meaning as well as the style (attempt to convey the same meaning

June 26, 2009

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