As discussed in other entries in this blog (e.g. this one), grammar is what human beings live by. Therefore a language, and the minds of those who speak it, cannot really be changed through lexical borrowings, even if the latter have traditionally constituted the main target of prescriptivists and defenders of the purity of language. […]
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My name on it
The recent news that a soccer stadium in Madrid is to be renamed after the Chinese company that has acquired 20% of the local team’s share capital cannot but arouse some nostalgia if not social upheaval. It seems like all those names of illustrious people that used to grace our sports venues were just being swept away by large-scale […]
And us, we are a-roarin’
Why him? That I wonder too. The chance had been there for so long that it had become sort of what I call an elevator remark – if you feel stupid talking to your neighbor about the weather, you can always say ‘Hey, he’s been nominated again’. I guess it was even good that he should be […]
As I lay dying. A Southern-stereotyped appreciation
It dont need to be no good just cause it is by Faulkner, but anyway I reckon it is. It certainly aint no The sound and the fury, for the surprise with all the style and narrative construction stuff must been lost by now if you have read them earlier books. But still it […]
At first
At last I found a place where I can write without being read. Leaving aside the blackboard, that is. Just inaugurated my own public and overexposed blog no one should be interested in peeking at. I wonder why I felt like starting in English. The thought that I might be forgetting my roots and betraying […]
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