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But he's perfectly right. I don't know if he can arrive to that conclusion from his experiment, nevertheless he's right. Spanish is full of ambiguous words. Ju
by tangus 8y ago
But he's perfectly right. I don't know if he can arrive to that conclusion from his experiment, nevertheless he's right.
Spanish is full of ambiguous words. Just looking around at my desk, I can find...
papel - paper/role
monitor - monitor/supervisor (in Arg, also the student in charge of class materials)
factura - invoice/a kind of pastry (Arg)
caja - box/till/case/drum/soundbox
revista - magazine/review
And let's not start with the verbs...
sonreír - smirk/grin/smile
arrancar - pull out / pull up / pluck / tear out / rip out / blow off / snatch / wrench / start / start a vehicle or machine / boot / set sail...
- justtopost 8y agoInteresting, but most of those exist also in english, many almost exactly. Paper - A Newspaper Company, Fiberous sheets, Thin covering, to title or register an object, etc. Monitor - same. Both monitor as in observe/supervise, and the object, also a common title of newspapers. Fr Drum - Musical drum, storage barrel, to attract attention, to repeat, a fast beat, a stretched diaphram and its effect, throb. Magazine - Publication, Bullet cartridge recepticle. ____ Review is common magazine title. Seems roughly equal honestly. All languages borrow abstractions from simple words as complexity grows.