2023-04-24 05:05:41
To designate the common language of Spain and many American nations, and which is also spoken as its own in other parts of the world, the terms castellano y español, as explained by the Royal Spanish Academy, Rae.
According to the recommendation of the Rae, the term español It is more recommendable because it lacks ambiguity, since it refers unequivocally to the language that nearly four hundred million people speak today. Spanish is the third most popular language on the Internet, although it occupies second place in social networks.
Spanish is the second language in the world by number of native speakers. No less than 4,000 Spanish terms come from Arabic, such as olive, sugar, pillow and rice.
Internationally it is used spanish, espagnol, spanish, spagnolo, among other. In this language there are some curiosities or rarities that are described in this article:
1 Who has the largest vocabulary?
A study by the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) research center in San Sebastián established that women know more vocabulary related to clothing or medicine, while men dominate more vocabulary related to sports or physics.
The study shows that the older people are, the more words they know. More than 200,000 people from 131 countries participated. It consisted of a succession of words, 80% of which were real (randomly selected from a base of more than 50,000 words) and 20% invented, although with the appearance of authentic words.
2. The longest word
Electroencefalografista It is considered the longest word. This refers to the person who specializes in electroencephalography, this is an x-ray of the skull obtained after removing the cerebrospinal fluid and injecting air into its place. It has 23 letters.
They are followed by 22 letters, sternocleidomastoid, electroencephalographic, and unconstitutional.
3. The most used letter
The Spanish alphabet has 22 consonants and 5 vowels, but the most used is the letter “e”. They are followed by the “a” and in third place the “o”.
4. Emoji
This is a word that is accepted in Spanish, but it is of Japanese origin. It is currently accepted in the RAE’s Dictionary of the Spanish Language.
In Japanese e has the meaning of drawing and mine is character. It is described as a small digital image or icon used in electronic communications to represent an emotion, an object, an idea. In 2019 it was the word of the year.
In other years they have been artificial intelligence (2022), vaccine (2021), confinement (2020), microplastic (2018), ‘aporophobia’ (2017), populism (2016), refugee (2015), selfie (2014) and escrache (2013). ).
5. Withdraw, do you use it well?
The verb resign it means settling for adversity, not “giving up”, says the Rae. But, regularly the use is inappropriate.
Depending on the context, to express that the commitment or idea of something does not cease, there are several alternatives such as no give up, no to give up or own not resign yourself to followed by no: “He is not resigned to not winning”.
6. If we talk about insults
There are a large number of insults and we share some of the most curious:
- Seedy: Mean, miserable.
- palurdo: Saying of a persona: rustic e ignorant.
- Pringao: Person who is easily fooled.
- Soplagait: Persona old o stupid.
- I am afraid: scruples o repairs vain o of very little importance.
- Zote: Ignorant, clumsy and very slow to learn.
7. How many words are there in Spanish?
It is impossible to know the number of words in a language. The last edition of the Dictionary of the Spanish Language (2014) registered more than 93 thousand articles.
8. Label instead of hashtag
Technology also has its space. The Rae regularly makes recommendations, for example, the English term hashtag can be replaced by its equivalent in Spanish label.
And hashtag It is a word, phrase or group of alphanumeric characters that is used in social networks to group several messages on the same topic; it is easily identified, since it is composed of the symbol # (hash) and a name or label (tag).
The alternative in Spanish also has the advantage over the Anglicism of facilitating the use of the verb label. “In any case, if you opt for Anglicism, it is appropriate to write hashtag on italic or between quotation marks if that type of letter is not available”, is explained in the text.
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