Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: jazusamo

“Sim verghona”. Thanks... I’ll have to remember that one.


2 posted on 11/04/2012 9:47:03 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Pearls Before Swine
Odd vindication I feel on reading this.

There's a Spanish version of it, too: sin verguenza and I've always found it to express things that we, in English, once were able to say but no longer can.

My wife speaks Spanish, and I'm constantly amazed at how--the way they say things in contemporary Spanish--are identical to the classical way things would have once been said in English. This is but one example.

Sauron

4 posted on 11/04/2012 9:52:32 AM PST by sauron ("Truth is hate to those who hate Truth" --unknown)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]

To: Pearls Before Swine
Odd vindication I feel on reading this.

There's a Spanish version of it, too: sin verguenza and I've always found it to express things that we, in English, once were able to say but no longer can.

My wife speaks Spanish, and I'm constantly amazed at how--the way they say things in contemporary Spanish--are identical to the classical way things would have once been said in English. This is but one example.

Sauron

5 posted on 11/04/2012 9:53:23 AM PST by sauron ("Truth is hate to those who hate Truth" --unknown)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]

To: Pearls Before Swine

That’s precisely it, though I had to look it up:)


7 posted on 11/04/2012 9:55:29 AM PST by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson