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I miss some things in English too: - Not being able to specify in one word if a friend is a male friend or female friend like amigo/amiga in Spanish. - The wo
by el-salvador 4y ago
I miss some things in English too:
- Not being able to specify in one word if a friend is a male friend or female friend like amigo/amiga in Spanish.
- The words for friend, boyfriend and girlfriend are too similar. While in spanish amigo/novio, amiga/novia are completely different.
- Not having one word descriptors for someone's ethnicity, as those have to be used very carefully or can't be used in English ag all. Like "Avisale el chelito que la zarca lo está esperando para ir a la tienda del chino" (common in my dialect of Spanish). "Tell the white-person that the light-eyed-person is waiting for him to go to the store owned by the asian-person" (very unnatural in English).
- sushisource 4y agoI don't think your last point is a significant lingual difference, it's a cultural difference. We have those words (you wrote them, just leave off the "person" part), they're just considered offensive to use that way. Which, in your example sentence, they really shouldn't be - it's just a convenient way of describing appearance. But, well, turns out the culture didn't go that way.