gueguense's blog

The language of Cervantes and Ruben Dario has not fallen prey to political correctness.

Notice however that in Spanish the words for war and peace are feminine. La Guerra y la Paz.

But sometimes you are faced whether the female and male nouns mean the same thing. The stuff below is funny and illustrates this:

Zorro: Héroe justiciero Zorra: Puta

Perro: Mejor amigo del hombre

Today, the conscience of Russia and anti-communist intellectual, Alexander Solzhenitsyn has left us.

His towering works documenting the tyranny of the Soviet "workers paradise" forever vaccinated me against radical chic naivete.

Hardly a word was said here about Obama's opinion that people needed to learn other foreign languages to compete in the world economy.

Yet human tendency being what it is, when people migrate they want to be with their kind, and thus an enclave arises.