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Palabras equivocas o malsonantes en Espana, Hispanoamerica y Filipinas (Problematic or Ill-Sounding Words in Spain, Latin America and the Philippines)
Criado de Val, Manuel – Yelmo, 1976
This feature presents the second part of a list of Spanish words that may have a second meaning which is frequently obscene, and words that are ill-sounding to speakers of Spanish. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Definitions, Dictionaries, Language Research, Language Usage
Diccionario de palabras equivocas o malsonantes en Espana, Hispanoamerica y Filipinas (Dictionary of Problematic or Ill-Sounding Words in Spain, Latin America and the Philippines)
Criado de Val, Manuel – Yelmo, 1976
This feature presents a list of Spanish words that may have a second meaning which is frequently obscene, and words that are ill-sounding to speakers of Spanish. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Definitions, Dictionaries, Language Research, Language Usage
Diccionario de palabras equivocas o malsonantes en Espana, Hispanoamerica y Filipinas (Dictionary of Problematic or Ill-Sounding Words in Spain, Latin America and the Philippines)
Criado De Val, Manuel – Yelmo, 1976
This feature presents the third part of a list of Spanish words that may have a second meaning which is frequently obscene, and words that are ill-sounding to speakers of Spanish. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Definitions, Dictionaries, Language Research, Language Usage
Diccionario de palabras equivocas o malsonantes en Espana, Hispanoamerica y Filipinas: Continuacion. (Dictionary of Ambiguous or Offensive Words in Spain, Spanish America and the Philippines: Continued)
Criado de Val, Manuel – Yelmo, 1976
This list of obscene, ambiguous, or offensive Spanish words indicates their off-color meaning in various Spanish-speaking countries. The list comprises words beginning with letters H-M, and is intended to protect the traveller or non-native speaker from embarrassment. It is a continuation of a previous article. (Text is in Spanish.) (CHK)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Language Variation, Lexicology, Regional Dialects
Spanish in Four Continents: Studies in Language Contact and Bilingualism.
Silva-Corvalan, Carmen, Ed. – 1995
Papers on Spanish bilingualism and Spanish in contact with other languages include: "The Study of Language Contact: An Overview of the Issues" (Carmen Silva-Corvalan); "Language Mixture: Ordinary Processes, Extraordinary Results" (Sarah G. Thomason); "The Impact of Quichua on Verb Forms Used in Spanish Requests in Otavalo,…
Descriptors: African Languages, Arabic, Aymara, Basque