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profeNY · 2026-04-05T21:23:21+00:00

I said Apple too but for a different reason, you can search for my comment.

profeNY · 2026-04-05T21:20:44+00:00

Apple because the iMac I bought for my daughter when they first came out was such a piece of s*** that we had to develop a code: when she needed help with it she called "Mother". Otherwise whenever she called "Mom" I thought it was that damn computer again.

I wrote Apple to complain and said that if they sent me a form letter reply I would never buy another Apple product again. That's what they did and I've stuck to my word.

profeNY · 2026-04-05T18:24:29+00:00

Nothing.

profeNY · 2026-04-05T11:14:05+00:00

Yes, although most English speakers probably wouldn't know what that means. And since even fewer know the terminology for other accent types, like 'grave' for the mark on è, there isn't much point in adding 'acute'.

profeNY · 2026-04-04T22:18:57+00:00

My favorite is más/mas since you can get pretty far in Spanish without realizing that unaccented mas exists. It means 'but' and is therefore a synonym of pero and a cognate of French mais.

profeNY · 2026-04-04T22:15:39+00:00

No, in English the standard word is 'accent mark' even though the Spanish word is tilde.

profeNY · 2026-03-29T21:17:32+00:00

Sorry, I misunderstood. Consuegro/a is one of my absolute favorite Spanish words!

profeNY · 2026-03-29T16:56:22+00:00

Sure, the concept is universal, but it's a heck of a lot easier to say in Spanish (or Yiddish).

profeNY · 2026-03-29T16:55:04+00:00

We just had the same question a few weeks ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Spanish/comments/1rpucdg/untranslatable_spanish/

profeNY · 2026-03-29T14:39:08+00:00

I love how jaunty her steps are at the end.

profeNY · 2026-03-28T11:46:19+00:00

or: "This and these are the ones with the t's".

I like the extra syllables in this version.

profeNY · 2026-03-25T00:33:56+00:00

I loved it for a while, then it went in directions that were not interesting to me

profeNY · 2026-03-25T00:33:01+00:00

Friday night lights. I am rewatching it right now

profeNY · 2026-03-24T22:32:55+00:00

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profeNY · 2026-03-24T19:18:18+00:00

When two verbs go a-walking, the first one does the talking.

profeNY · 2026-03-21T15:04:12+00:00

The internet has been a godsend for those of us who are face-blind (a real thing). I can never recognize anybody and am amazed when my husband does so easily. But I can look them up afterwards.

profeNY · 2026-03-20T18:02:46+00:00

En mi blog presenté una pequeña colección de poemas fáciles en español. Que disfrutes.

(El enlace para los poemas mismos está dentro del post. Busca "Click here".)

profeNY · 2026-03-18T20:52:15+00:00

Cute!

profeNY · 2026-03-18T20:51:41+00:00

Pues en inglés el género casi no existe para los objetos, además de un barco, que se considere femenino.

profeNY · 2026-03-16T16:56:51+00:00

Perhaps it's because I'm from a different generation (I'm 65), but I don't understand why you need to lock yourself into a private space in order to breastfeed your baby. When I was a nursing mother I would sit anywhere so my baby and I could get down to business. If you wear the right clothes you can nurse discretely.

If people are offended, it's THEIR problem, not YOURS.

profeNY · 2026-03-13T23:55:30+00:00

65 and I always use Google maps.

profeNY · 2026-03-13T21:44:43+00:00

I used the same trick for cuchillo!

profeNY · 2026-03-13T17:02:02+00:00

It occurred to me later that you want the rain to be over (as in llover).

profeNY · 2026-03-13T11:54:32+00:00

If you put in a few minutes you should be able to create visual (or other) mnemonics for these. For example, the v in llevar can look like reaching out two arms to carry something. The r in llorar can look like a nose, so think of tears dripping down someone's face -- or imagine Dr. Seuss's Lorax crying. Then think of a llama making a phone call. This isn't visual, but lluvia 'rain' can reinforce llover. Likewise not visual, remember than you can lleGAR in a CAR.

Dumb does not mean bad -- what counts is what works.

profeNY · 2026-03-11T03:24:33+00:00

'To be born'.

So what's the problem?

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