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Going through the History of the Spanish language article in Wikipedia, I read the section Latin f- to Spanish h- to null some interesting insight: F was almost always initial in Latin words, an...

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by fedorqui‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

In many places around the world there are different languages that coexist: some people speak one, some the other, and many can speak both. There are as many cases as situations: some of the langu...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by fedorqui‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Jirka Hanika‭

I read this sentence in a book ("La Guerra Civil española", by Paul Preston): La tortura explicaba el gran número de suicidios que se registraban en las cárceles, y las autoridades, que se sentí...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by fedorqui‭

This site has the category Resources which will grow over time with great posts. But what if I want to get some of these resources? I mean, how can I suggest one? Let me be specific: I want to im...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by fedorqui‭  ·  edited 3y ago by fedorqui‭

Yes, it is a common, rather colloquial, way to say "to be in a good mood". The Diccionario de la lengua española, that is, the main Spanish dictionary has an entry on it: de buenas loc. adj. colo...

posted 5y ago by fedorqui‭

Please post, below, valuable online resources for English pronunciation. YouTube channels ETJ English: Modern British pronunciation

posted 3y ago by fedorqui‭  ·  edited 3y ago by fedorqui‭

In Spanish.SE we used to have quite a lot of fun with the Translation Golf: we would pick some English text and the goal was to translate it into Spanish using the less amount of characters as poss...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by fedorqui‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Moshi‭

I was surprised with joy when I saw that Codidact allows tag hierarchies: A tag can have one or more children, and when you search on a tag you can either search just that tag or also search its...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by fedorqui‭  ·  edited 5y ago by fedorqui‭

I am reading some texts about routes for running. They explain interesting routes and allow getting the GPS track. Also, there is the option to modify the GPS track by adding waypoints. Now I wan...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by fedorqui‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Peter Taylor‭

All languages have dialects and an answer on a specific topic can be true... or false, depending on the dialect. For this, I think we could add a reaction like: This matches with my dialect [a...

posted 3y ago by fedorqui‭

Catalan - 117 characters Benvinguts a Languages & Linguistics, la comunitat dels interessats en idiomes (humans) específics, les seves construccions o la lingüística. I translate our comm...

posted 5y ago by fedorqui‭

English - 72 characters Welcome to this society for those into human speechs, their constructs, or linguistics. I did these changes: community -> society our community for anyone inter...

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Online/Web Diccionario de la lengua española by the RAE (Real Academia Española), the Spanish official dictionary. Diccionario de americanismos contains words belonging to Spanish spoken in His...

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