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| bio | website | utahbrian.com |
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| location | Salt Lake City, UT | |
| age | 38 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 6 months |
| seen | Oct 27 '12 at 16:28 | |
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I like to write computer programs. I also like backpacking, bike riding, math, natural languages, books, and learning new things.
Utah is the most beautiful place on Earth.
I have ascended characters from every race and class in Nethack.
brian@utahbrian.com
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Nov 19 |
asked | Matutino and Vespertino |
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Nov 19 |
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Do “alborada”, “amanecer”, and “madrugada” refer to the same thing? Don't forget la salida del sol and el crepúsculo. |
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Nov 19 |
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Is/Was there a Basic Spanish? @vartec The missionaries in New Spain invested enormous resources in didactic religious artwork and wrote the largest and most extensive set of dictionaries and grammars ever seen for native languages in the Sixteenth through Eighteenth centuries. It wasn't entirely altruistic but it was a serious effort at education. |
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Nov 19 |
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How to pronounce the consonants “y” and “ll”? @hippietrail Dictionaries don't have a special section for rr because it never begins a word. Any word that starts with r has the rr pronunciation anyway. Whether it counts as a separate letter (sometimes sí, sometimes no, but the RAE now says it doesn't) is a separate issue. |
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Nov 19 |
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How should I translate “table” (as in a data table)? This is especially natural usage for any Spanish speaker with a doctorate in Algebra, Statistics, or Physics. (Note: Algebra comes to English from Arabic by way of Spanish.) |
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Nov 19 |
answered | How should I translate “table” (as in a data table)? |
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Nov 19 |
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'vos' vs 'tú' usage by country I've never heard voseo in southeast Guatemala. By reputation, there's at least one belt where it is common between Huehuetenango, Guatemala and Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chiapas, México. That's an isolated mountain region that could maintain its own historic diction among the minority that are native Spanish speakers. |
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Nov 19 |
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¿Cuál es la diferencia entre «también» y «tampoco»? One does not say, "una otra persona." Just "otra persona" will do; "otro" never takes a definite article. |
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Nov 19 |
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What is the diminutive of “pan” (meaning bread)? For pansito: Pancita is the diminutive of panza; you wouldn't want to confuse those. |
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Nov 19 |
suggested | suggested edit on Does indirect speech in Spanish require changes in tense, mood, etc? |
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Nov 19 |
awarded | Editor |
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Nov 19 |
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Does indirect speech in Spanish require changes in tense, mood, etc? added coverage of subjunctive issues |
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Nov 19 |
awarded | Student |
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Nov 19 |
answered | Does indirect speech in Spanish require changes in tense, mood, etc? |
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Nov 19 |
asked | How are «parecer», «semejante», and «similar» used to express sameness? |
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Nov 19 |
asked | What is the difference between different ways of expressing desire and intention? |
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Nov 19 |
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Why are certain words ending in “a” masculine? @vartec isn't vodka in slavic just diminutive water, analogous to Spanish aguita? Is vod feminine? |
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Nov 18 |
awarded | Critic |
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Nov 18 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Nov 18 |
awarded | Supporter |
