Re:The Deadliest Animal in the World
by mootothemax on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @08:04AM
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Don't say you are wrong, probably this is about diferent spanish usage since it varies from country to country and even more from continent to continent.
Daily language use is a very different thing to etymology.
Let me give you an example:
I'm learning Polish as a second language, and I love, love, love the Polish word for whale: wieloryb.
Why?
It's a contraction of the words for great/large and fish: wielki + ryba = wieloryb. Isn't that cute?
No Pole in their right mind thinks of "great fish" when you say "whale;" that's clearly nonsense.
And yet despite this, the history of the word remains.
Daily language use is a very different thing to etymology.
Let me give you an example:
I'm learning Polish as a second language, and I love, love, love the Polish word for whale: wieloryb.
Why?
It's a contraction of the words for great/large and fish: wielki + ryba = wieloryb. Isn't that cute?
No Pole in their right mind thinks of "great fish" when you say "whale;" that's clearly nonsense.
And yet despite this, the history of the word remains.