Parataxis, Ellipsis, and Litotes in English and Spanish
In English, I feel that I encounter parataxis more often than in the Romance languages (though I have no good evidence to back this up).
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In English, I feel that I encounter parataxis more often than in the Romance languages (though I have no good evidence to back this up).
The principal function of quotation marks is to mark quotes and dialogues. In Spanish, there are two formulas for dialogues: dashes and quotation marks. The
As I have brought up on this site before, one of the things I most appreciate about the English language is the amount of creativity
The custom in English today of having expository clarity give precedence to short sentences that are separated by periods, whereas in Spanish the are considered
I have already brought up the idea of how the language you speak can shape you mind, and it is a topic that continues to
In English, unlike Spanish, uses the indefinite article before the generic predicate. The article plays its essential role, which is to singularize an object among
In an effort to make its relationship with non-Arabic countries more transparent and friendly, the United Arab Emirates (officially consolidated as a nation in 1971)
In English, we generally use a comma in front of the conjunctions “and” and “or”. The structures in English allow for us to skip the
The Global Language Monitor, which was born from the ashes of yourdictionary.com, focuses on trends in the use of language, primarily through automatic algorithmic readings
In English, adjectives are always spelled the same and, syntactically, are almost always placed before the noun. In Spanish, there are a few that are
The majority of the people I have exchanged emails and comments with on this blog are not just translators of one language pair, but polyglots
Both English and Spanish follow the S-V-O (subject – verb – object) order, though each to a different degree. In contemporary English, this scheme is
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