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It’s one of those days…
What’s happening to our world? Just respect other people, okay?
ser versus estar
This post has more of it explained!
Additionally, I have the ser y estar tag which has other posts that involve ser and estar and assorted differences or really specific examples/questions
Hagrid and Harry.
Does Catalan have any native mythology, or is it all Christian or Muslim stuff?
Hi!
We have Catalan mythology but it doesn't have other gods. The cultural origin of the Catalan people (when people started considering themselves Catalan, speaking and writing in Catalan which was a different language from Vulgar Latin, the creation of the Catalan Counties as political institutions, etc which all more or less happened at the same time) happened when the population was already Christianized and the south which was later conquered and slowly Christianized was Muslim. But earlier pre-Christian traditions have survived, sometimes merged with Christianity (like through saints or turning ancient beings into evils) and very often not related to Christianity (I mean, this comes from a country that still celebrates Christmas hitting a wooden log, a pre-Christian tradition).
Catalan mythology is the legends and beliefs in mythical beings. For example, different types of goblins and elves, water-women, roaming souls in sorrow (ànimes en pena), dragons, little demons, the mountains that are giants, etc. Lots of these beliefs were inherited from the pagan tradition. There are also mythical places like Mirmanda (the oldest city in the world, built by giants), Paradela (a city that emerges from the depths of water only on the night of Sant Joan's eve), the city of the encantades in the Lanós lake, the city of witches and demons in the Balaig lake, and most areas have their own legends about magical caves full of treasures that were left behind by the Moors, often they're guarded by a Moorish immortal or ghost and can only be seen under the light of the full moon or on certain nights of the year and have some sort of malediction.
I'll link you to some posts about mythical beings from Catalan mythology:
minairons
follets
dones d'aigua / encantades / paitides / aloges
donyets
negrets
Comte Arnau (the most famous soul in sorrow)
Dip
the Nine Barons of Fame
the Father of Snow
Ginebreda
fameliars
the romanial flower
Nonell of the Snow
and this post has a list of boogeymen
If you check the tag #llegendes on this blog, you'll find more Catalan legends.
I've only posted about a few of them, but there are so many more that we could talk about. If there's interest I can make more posts about Catalan mythology.
Vous vs. Tu, French “you”.
Chart from the LA Times.
Decision chart for the French TV-distinction, with some very hyper-specific points.
Why do some words in Spanish that are masculine end in a?
Simply put, the rules regarding Spanish grammatical gender aren't absolute. There are always exceptions here and there.
In general though, there are two reasons you're seeing this: they're either loanwords from other languages that ignore the traditional rules, or they're established words that originally came from Greek a long time ago
*Note: Sometimes it's difficult to trace exactly but el papá "dad" is an abbreviation of padre and it's related to Latin [similar to el Papa "Pope"] - similar to baba meaning "father" in other languages. It's a fun little area of metalinguistics
Also el día "day" is masculine but it’s a very very old Proto word, not specifically Latin or Greek
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As far as loanwords, it could be something like el sofá "sofa/couch" or el pijama "pajamas" which come from Arabic, or el karma "karma" which is a concept from Buddhism.
These are usually easier to spot because loanwords are some kind of approximation of an established word, something that either lacks a translation/transliteration or something that's directly from another language
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The other big category here is words that originally came from Greek. Many of these words end in -ma, but they're all masculine, and many of them you probably know or will come to know:
el problema = problem
el tema = matter, subject / theme
el idioma = language
el clima = weather / clime, climate
el poema = poem
el drama = drama / drama, theater [as a subject, not the place]
el sistema = system
el fantasma = ghost, phantom
el enigma = enigma / riddle, puzzle
el estigma = stigma / stereotype
el dilema = dilemma, problem
el lema = motto, slogan
This also includes pretty much any word ending in -grama. Any word ending in -grama is masculine and Greek-inspired:
el programa = program
el anagrama = anagram
el telegrama = telegram
el holograma = hologram
el crucigrama = crossword (puzzle)
These are technically loanwords, but Greek is one of those languages that has had such a profound impact on Latin (and the Romance Languages by extension) that the "classical" words are kind of in their own category
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Additionally - and this is a subset of words - but there are some words that begin with HA- or A-, that are technically feminine but take a masculine article.
They're more of a special case, done for the sake of preserving the sound of the words, so it's something of an imposed grammatical rule for clarity's sake, and so it's a separate topic
Here's more on those words if you want to read up on them!
Wonderfully said! The same goes for portuguese.
That’s cool! I didn’t know it also applied to Portuguese but I guess it does make sense
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James used to translate what baby Harry was “saying” because it always made Lily laugh.
James: “Look mum I can walk now” Lily: Harry! Harry: ammaaa James: “Oh no, I’m falling, it’s a lot of pressure!”
Obligatory redraw of that iconic pic with them
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