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April 13, 2005
gerunding gone mad
International Herald Tribune - The World Is Englishing
Just got this link from LINGUIST
I especially like the bit at the end about Spanish people having to coin the term 'bullying' because 'we've never needed a word for that before in Spain'
B-)
Posted by Billy at April 13, 2005 9:45 AM
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the Spanish never needed a word for "bullying"?!!! yeh, right.. well, probably because they are men of action :)
Posted by: Mai at April 18, 2005 10:39 PM
Yes, it's a good one, isn't it? From a country that was run by France for a zillion years too. Actually, I thought by now a Spanish person might have told me what the word for 'buillying' is. Having said that, I checked with some online translators and they all translate 'bully' as 'bully' and 'bullying' as 'el bullying'. The other question, of course, is whether they think they didn't need the word because nobody does it or because everybody does?
B-)
Posted by: billyclarkie 
at April 19, 2005 9:57 AM
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