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On top of that, Spanish feels like a pragmatic language: it foregoes French's formality and resistance to borrowed words (e.g., computadora versus ordinateur).
by __derek__ 10y ago
On top of that, Spanish feels like a pragmatic language: it foregoes French's formality and resistance to borrowed words (e.g., computadora versus ordinateur). It also helps that Spanish speakers tend to be forgiving of gender errors in the rare cases where the spelling misleads (mostly just masculine words that end in -a).
- oftenwrong 10y agoThis is more of a split between Latin America and Spain (and the various other places that borrow language from them) Latin America -> computadora Spain -> ordenador
- __derek__ 10y agoHuh. I didn't know that. Thank you for the correction!