Comments on: Spanish mixes me up http://elliottback.com/wp/spanish-mixes-me-up/ Internet & Technology Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:40:56 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Elliott Back http://elliottback.com/wp/spanish-mixes-me-up/#comment-715 Elliott Back Wed, 26 Jan 2005 01:18:24 +0000 /?p=361#comment-715 Not to mention the tendency to always translate literally! Imagine reading:

Èl lanzò la piedra…

and then translating it, “He lanced the rock…” rather than “He threw the rock…”

]]> By: Topocho http://elliottback.com/wp/spanish-mixes-me-up/#comment-713 Topocho Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:28:25 +0000 /?p=361#comment-713 Another source of confussion for english speaker is the gender in spanish :-) A friend canadian friend told me once: “El inglés es el idioma de los negocios, el francés es el idio del amor, y el español es el idioma de la pasión” (He speaks the three languages).

By the way, I just installed your antispam plpugin in my experimental WordPress blog: http://www.encalrtado.com/topochopress/ and it looks like it is working great.

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