International Herald Tribune - The World Is Englishing
Just got this link from LINGUIST
I especially like the bit at the end about Spanish people having to coin the term 'bullying' because 'we've never needed a word for that before in Spain'
B-)
International Herald Tribune - The World Is Englishing
Just got this link from LINGUIST
I especially like the bit at the end about Spanish people having to coin the term 'bullying' because 'we've never needed a word for that before in Spain'
B-)
the Spanish never needed a word for "bullying"?!!! yeh, right.. well, probably because they are men of action :)
Yes, it's a good one, isn't it? From a country that was run by France for a zillion years too. Actually, I thought by now a Spanish person might have told me what the word for 'buillying' is. Having said that, I checked with some online translators and they all translate 'bully' as 'bully' and 'bullying' as 'el bullying'. The other question, of course, is whether they think they didn't need the word because nobody does it or because everybody does?
B-)