Show HN: Improve your Spanish through proverbs

Re:Show HN: Improve your Spanish through proverbs by nicofcurti on Thursday March 18, 2021 @07:21PM (#26508619)

As a native speaker I read some of these and they make absolutely no sense until I translate them to english, it's so funny!

Don't want to be picky, but:

1) Casa means House, not Home. Moreover, the word you're looking for is "Inicio" although we use "Home" in english when referring to a page.

2) In the Home I got the random word "porsiacasos" which doesn't exist by itself, correct way is "por si acaso"

Nonetheless, good job!

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Re:Show HN: Improve your Spanish through proverbs by anthelios on Saturday March 20, 2021 @05:45AM (#26521885)

Thanks for the heads up, ‘Inicio’ is what I was looking for, will update.

Some of the words are slang but interestingly the word ‘porsiacaso’ does exist in Argentina and made it into the RAE https://dle.rae.es/porsiacaso but with the following more narrow definition:

m. Arg. y Ven. Alforja o saco pequeño en que se llevan provisiones de viaje.

Gracias!

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Re:Show HN: Improve your Spanish through proverbs by glaucon on Thursday March 18, 2021 @07:44PM (#26508792)

With respect to the "casa" and "house/home" thing, in American English, at least as far as I understand it, "home" has become a replacement for "house", so that might explain why "casa" has been translated as "home".

I think it was originally done by the Real Estate industry to increase the emotional engagement the buyer felt with the house but then it just seems to have become the norm.

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Re:Show HN: Improve your Spanish through proverbs by nicofcurti on Friday March 19, 2021 @07:19AM (#26512029)

I see, didn't know that. Still, Casa is not a word for "Homepage" in spanish, just fyi

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Re:Show HN: Improve your Spanish through proverbs by nicofcurti on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:32AM (#26512505)

Btw, the word for home is Hogar

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