tripu @tripu@qoto.org

Lastly, and by the same (flimsy) logic, 500+ million native #Spanish speakers would like to have a word with any entitled English speaker who pontificates on the word “apache” being used as a disrespectful cultural appropriation: you guys stole the word from our language in the first place. We could be offended too, or withdraw our approval for you to use it. Just use your own word!

/s

📣 PSA

Horrible, inflated #words in 🇪🇸 #Spanish, and their nicer, shorter equivalents:

• influenciar → influir
• posicionar → poner, colocar, pronunciar
• modelizar → modelar

❤️

https://soundcloud.com/rockmediante/02-jorge-drexler-mi-guitarra-y

This #song by #JorgeDrexler must be especially interesting to #Spanish language learners, I suspect?

🇪🇸 #Spanish

cantar → canta
recordar → recuerda
extender → extiende
abolir → ❓

Answer without looking it up.

I just finished reading the first volume of the #Essays by #MichelDeMontaigne, arguably the most important non-fiction work in all of world #literature.

Here are all my highlights (in 🇪🇸 #Spanish):

https://tripu.medium.com/montaigne-121ed878b0b7

#book #TheGreatestBooks #Montaigne #TheEssays

Here I am talking (in 🇪🇸 #Spanish) about curious and useful 🇯🇵 #Japanese words in the latest #episode of #BolaDeCristal #podcast:

👉 “La magia del vocabulario japonés”

• MP3 file)
• On Spotify