De vez en cuando hay que escribir en español.
Tag: Language
That pesky English language
My grandmother told me a story about her and my grandfather that made me laugh. There is a word in Spanish that used to be a slur but has changed a bit. The word is “güey“, a derivation of the word “buey” (bull). It used to be used to call someone stupid or a dimwit. However, it has become more…
Talking Tuesday: My Spanish is not very pretty these days
Three quick minutes to tell you why my Spanish is not too good nowadays, though my mother demanded that I speak it well. Actually, I think my English is better than Spanish… Written, anyway.
As always, you can download the whole thing by clicking here.
The nuances of language
The professor asked the class what a “confounder” was. I raised my hand and answered, “A confounder is something that is associated with both the exposure and the disease, but is not in the causal pathway between an exposure and a disease.” That is how I learned what a confounder is. That is how I explain it to people. The professor…
“Word Crimes” by Weird Al Yankovic
This one goes out to all the people on the internet who get so riled up in their anger over things like immigration or vaccines that they forget that this is America, where we speak English.
httpvh://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc
The day I forgot to speak English
I’ve been playing soccer for a very long time. In fact, I can remember the first time I played soccer back when I was six years old and my cousin Danny came to visit me in Juarez. There were some kids out on the street kicking the ball around, and we decided to challenge them to a game. I don’t…
What do you see when you see Brown?
I must admit to you that I was very, very sad to see some of the comments on social media (comments like these) that came about from Marc Anthony signing “God Bless America” at the MLB All-Star game on Tuesday. It appears that the racist came out of a lot of people, and they decided to openly state how racist…
