2024-01-10 08:44:27
To indicate that something is remembered or that deserves to be remembered, what is indicated is use unforgettable o memorablebut no inmemorable.
However, phrases like these appear in the media: “The publishing house pays tribute to the women who have left an unmemorable mark on literature”, “She is not only remembered for her unmemorable victory” or “Carlos Gardel and Alfredo Le “Pera would make up an unforgettable duo in the history of tango.”
How to collect Dictionary of the Spanish languagethe adjective unforgettable means ‘that cannot be forgotten’while memorable applies to that ‘worthy of memory’. Because of its close meaningsince what is not forgotten remains in memory, Both terms are appropriate to designate what is memorable.. The use of the adjective inmemorableon the contrary, it is not appropriatesince this is used to talk about everything ‘of whose beginning there is no memory’: “It is a plant widely used since time immemorial.”
Therefore, in the examples at the beginning it would have been preferable to write “The publishing house pays tribute to the women who have left a memorable mark on literature”, “She is not only remembered for her memorable victory” and “Carlos Gardel and Alfredo Le Pera “They would make up an unforgettable duo in the history of tango.”
It is recalled that, in addition to inmemorablecan be used immemorialwhat has the same meaning: “Since time immemorial, humanity has been accompanied by sounds.”
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