Petruza

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Jun 10	comment	I need a Spanish word list for statistical analysis (as complete as possible) Thanks @hippietrail. I think I did tell what I need it for: "Then I can import it into a database and make some statistical analysis about letter and syllable frequency and in what combinations do they appear, where in the word, etc" How hard I looked? very hard, that's why I resorted here. Making a question here seems harder than explaining why you're entering the USA from Mexico with a bag of cocaine under your clothes.
May 21	comment	Spanish abbreviation for the United States of America Oh you are, LOL. Well, I can tell you in Argentina nobody says or writes USA in a spanish sentence. It's true that some english acronyms are used, mixed with spanish, but certainly not this one.
May 18	comment	Spanish abbreviation for the United States of America @Flimzy: The original poster asked for an acronym in spanish. For an acronym to belong to the spanish language it has to have initials of spanish words. U.S.A. is not spanish language, it's english, and the original poster asked for spanish, and actually the whole site is about spanish.
Mar 11	comment	I need a Spanish word list for statistical analysis (as complete as possible) @Joze: Oh sorry, so should I post this exact same question in linguistics?
Mar 10	comment	I need a Spanish word list for statistical analysis (as complete as possible) Gracias! no entiendo por qué me cerraron la pregunta, si esto no tiene que ver con el lenguaje y su uso, no entiendo.
Feb 19	comment	Why, when, and how did vowels E and I get special treatment from consonants like C,G & Q? I'm talking about pronunciation, maybe the fact that I included the Q makes it look that I'm confusing pronunciation with spelling, but I just included the Q because it's the way in Spanish to make the /k/ sound which the C can't make before E and I.
Feb 19	comment	Why, when, and how did vowels E and I get special treatment from consonants like C,G & Q? Yes, I'm not confusing them, I'm talking about pronunciation, like I wrote in the question.
Feb 18	comment	Difference between “está” and “esta” or “esté” and “este”? Specially the answer to the question is on the sentence that starts with Besides,...
Feb 9	comment	Determining gender of words ending in “e” For the last 4 examples, I would say that the rule is simpler, all those nouns are masculine ( color, número, río, mar, lago ) and thus when naming a specific one of them, they will be also masculine. I'm not sure, but I think it's always like this, except for exceptions :D
Feb 9	comment	Translation of the C++ “move constructor” language element Sorry for the off-topic but I'm into C++ and haven't heard of move-constructors, how is it different from a copy constructor? it deletes the original object or something?
Feb 9	comment	Word usage: “caminamos” VS “caminábamos” @Cadenza: no, caminábamos would be we were walking
Feb 9	comment	Word usage: “caminamos” VS “caminábamos” In the first example, as you start with Así que you are implying in some way that this is the consequence of something, and as such it's supposedly a finished action and not continued, so caminamos would make more sense than caminábamos
Feb 9	comment	Word usage: “caminamos” VS “caminábamos” What alternative do you think of for había? it means there was/there were so it's just fine here.
Jan 24	comment	Approximant vs. fricative realization of /b/, /d/, /g/ I would say that it depends a lot on accents. But yes, generally it's like that. I had a greek friend that was astonished to hear "goga-gola" in Argentina, instead of "Coca-cola"
Jan 24	comment	Studying Spanish at school in a Spanish speaking country Where do you live? that results you mention are from private, public education or general? And I have to say, children of 17 years old not knowing well to tell apart nouns, verbs and adjectives? wow.
Jan 14	comment	Why is “Enrique” pronunced as though it has a double “r”? @DiegoMijelshon: Ok, if you state that the majority of the spanish speaking population and the RAE agree on one pronunciation and that 's the wrong pronunciation in the spanish language, then we have nothing else to discuss. I'll finish saying that I agree with you in that foreign proper names, specially countries' names should be pronounced as close as their original pronunciation.
Jan 14	comment	Why is “Enrique” pronunced as though it has a double “r”? @DiegoMijelshon: that happens a lot with many other countries. the q in Iraq is a sound totally strange to Spanish, yet you spell it Irak and pronounce it with an approximate pronunciation in Spanish. I agree with your example of Idish, but with Israel it's not only a rule of the RAE that nobody follows, but it's also the widely used pronunciation. The fact that Jewish people (not all of them) pronounce Israel with a soft r is not only about Spanish phonology but also has to do with a sense of belonging to a peoples* and culture, and I totally respect that. (* pueblo)
Jan 14	comment	Why is “Enrique” pronunced as though it has a double “r”? @Diego: I agree with you, I think proper names should be pronounced as they are in their original languages, but as we are talking about the Spanish language, it has clear rules, and one of them is that r after s becomes hard as rr. (check this post's link to the RAE article, it gives the specific example of israelí)
Jan 11	comment	Can I learn to roll my R's? You're right, but I didn't remember the word "Alveolar ridge" :D. thanks
Jan 11	comment	Why is “Enrique” pronunced as though it has a double “r”? @DiegoMijelshon: Ok, let's debate :D I'm not familiar with SE's chat, but that's the place for this, I think.