TIL I learned that the word "senate" is derived from the Latin word "senex" meaning "old man".
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2021-10-30 11:12 AM -04:00 -
2021-09-18 1:51 PM -04:00 I know this sounds patronizing but the Spanish word for small (pequeño/a) is super cute.
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2021-08-31 6:02 PM -04:00 I've been doing Spanish on Duolingo since December of last year, and I STILL have trouble mentally translating "Yo tengo" as "I have" as opposed to "You tango?"
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2021-08-08 7:57 PM -04:00 I find the Spanish tendency to drop the subject of a sentence when it's implied by the format of the verb to be both jarring and admirably efficient
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2021-04-12 7:12 PM -04:00 I've of the things I have to deal with in Spanish: 'sombrero' means 'hat', and I sort of already knew this, but I always associated it with a very specific kind of hat, not hats in general.
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2021-03-29 11:53 PM -04:00 First practical duolingo result: I now understand that the chihuahua was saying "I want Taco Bell"
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2021-02-09 3:13 PM -05:00 TIL that the chinese word for penguin literally translates as "business goose".
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2021-01-06 8:43 PM -05:00 Like of https://twitter.com/susie_dent/status/1346915538698727428?s=19
Word of the day is 'sequaciousness' (17th century): the blinkered, unreasoning, and slavish following of another, no matter where it leads.
— Susie Dent (@susie_dent) January 6, 2021 -
2021-01-06 12:44 PM -05:00 My my, that duolingo owl is aggressive, isn't it.
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2021-01-02 9:47 PM -05:00 Okay, so duolingo is kind of fun.