Reading Time: 4 minutesEver heard that Arabic has 10 million words? That English has a million? French has 80,000, or that the Alaskan Inuits have no word for love but 16 for snow? Why is that?
Category: Morphology and Complaints
Exploring Romance Languages like Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, and then griping about how dumb English is comparatively.
Why is Problema Masculine in Spanish and Portuguese?
Reading Time: 2 minutesBecause its origins are Greek I had a Spanish professor (who was Greek) years ago who explained that, just about any word with a “-ma” ending was a Greek word and should be treated masculine. That doesn’t mean the word … Continue reading