La Página Del Idioma Español: articulos sobre otros idiomas

LA PÁGINA DEL IDIOMA ESPAÑOL
Invitamos a visitar la versión en inglés de los artículos publicados en La Página del Idioma Español, en http://www.elcastellano.org/spanishpoint Rules and Authority in SpanishThe Real Academia Española, a state-owned entity in the kingdom of Spain, is invested with the authority to dictate the language of 400 million Spanish speakers in 20 countries. Ricardo Soca notes how this does not occur in the case of other languages, whose speakers consider good dictionaries - like the Oxford or the Merriam Webster in the case of English - to be the sole linguistic authority. Soca explains how such high-quality, comprehensive works are lacking in Spanish: the dictionary published by the Academia is known for its deficiencies and gaps - and for its Eurocentrism. Madam, I'm Adam: The PalindromesIn the second edition of his book Lengua curiosa, which will be released in the next few weeks, Uruguayan author Carlos Liscano tells us about palindromes, especially in Spanish, though the article begins with a well-known English language palindrome: "Madam, I'm Adam." The two last speakers of an old dialectBobby Hogg, 87, and his brother Gordon, 80, are believed to be the last fluent speakers of the "Cromarty fisher dialect", that is said to be the most threatened dialect in Scotland and is to be recorded for an internet-bases cultural archive. A 95-year-old Cybernaut in the Blogosphere A 95-year old grandmother received a blog as a birthday present from her grandson and she now communicates with the world on a daily basis, sharing her youthful spirit and her cybernaut experiences as one of the oldest "bloggers" in the world. The Spanish Version of the History Channel is BunkThe factual errors and the atrocious translations into Spanish of certain programs on The History Channel, one of many supposedly "cultural" channels, represent a true threat to history. Columnist Jorge Abbondanza from the daily El País explains how the channel spreads its drivel across the globe. Judeo-Spanish: The Struggle for SurvivalLadino or Judeo-Spanish, the language of the Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492, survives in Turkey today, a relic of XV century Spanish. Five centuries after the emigration of the Jews, however, the language's existence is threatened by the national language, Turkish.