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Untranslatability is the quality of certain words which have no immediate equivalent when translated into another language. This lexical gap may arise from the fact that, in spite of globalization and the homologation of certain countries into one group despite the differences in languages (for example: Europe, the Western World), each language has its own “culture”,

Accent and accent marks — A different we hardly ever stop to think about  In many languages, especially in Spanish, use these two terms indifferently, as if they shared the same meaning, or sometimes even swapping their meanings entirely. Let’s take a closer look at what they mean, which differences they hold and when exactly we

Estas son las noticias más relevantes de la semana en inglés y en español para que sigas ejercitando el inglés. [ENG] Alarm over Apple’s new tech Apple revealed plans to start scanning iPhone photos in the U.S. for images of child pornography within its Messages app and on the phone itself, raising immediate concerns regarding user

It is undeniable that science fiction has influenced all of society in more ways than one. Since its more resounding literary works, such as those by Jules Verne, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ray Bradbury, among others, have been heavily based on existing science and technology principals stretched beyond their limits at the time, this genre

Estas son las noticias más relevantes de la semana en inglés y en español para que sigas ejercitando el inglés. [ENG] Female athletes fined for not wearing bikinis During the European Beach Handball Championship, the Norwegian women team was penalised for wearing shorts, instead of the sport’s typical bikini bottoms. The team had to pay the

Estas son las noticias más relevantes de la semana en inglés y en español para que sigas ejercitando el inglés. [ENG] IDs for non-binary people Argentina has become the first country in South America to recognise non-binary gender identities in its national identification cards and passport. From now on, someone who does not identify as either

No matter what language we are talking about, we can always recognize certain phrases with metaphorical meaning hidden behind random expressions that don’t seem to make a lot of sense when looked at objectively, at least not in the context in which they are normally used. For example, if you were to communicate surprising news

There is a popular joke that reads: “When it comes to languages, their our know rules.” Now at first sight, because of grammar, that sentence does not seem to make any sense. However, if one reads it out loud, one realizes that in terms of pronunciation, the end of that sentence sounds like “there are

Amazon rainforest releases more carbon than it stores. The Brazilian Amazon, long believed to absorb man-made pollution, has released about 20% more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than it has absorbed in the last decade. An alarming new study found that between 2010 and 2019, the Amazon released 16.6 billion tons of carbon, while absorbing

Cocoliche — The Italian Branch of Rioplatense Spanish  Nowadays, the influence of European immigration is palpable all around Argentinian culture, in its last names, in its cooking but, primarily, in its language. It is known that the Spanish spoken in Argentina (and Uruguay as well) differs to that spoken in Spain and in most of Latin

Sole resident of Budelli Island leaves after 32 years. Mauro Morandi, an 81-year-old Italian, has been the only resident of Budelli Island, north of Sardinia, since 1989. He arrived at this sort of paradise, known for its pink beach, by chance. Tired of consumerism and the political situation in Italy, he decided to sail to

𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐚: 𝐀 𝐌𝐚𝐧-𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 😯
Time and time again has literature proved to be of great influence in the evolution of languages. ✍️✨

Authors such as Shakespeare have changed the meaning of several words by the way they employed them, most of which we still use on a daily basis; other authors, particularly science-fiction writers have either invented or popularised terms meant to describe the amazing phenomenon their stories revolved around (i.e.: ‘robot’🤖, ‘spaceship’👽, ‘atomic bomb’💣).

Some authors, however, took it one step further and not only did they influence existing languages, by they created one (or in the case of this specific author, more) brand new language, equipped with its own grammar rules.
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Let us take a look at one of the many languages this writer has created on his own accord: 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐚, 𝐛𝐲 𝐉.𝐑.𝐑. 𝐓𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐞𝐧.

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It is not unheard of that some languages created for fiction have grown beyond the limits of the work for which they were created 😯
▶Tolkien’s Elvish, Game of Throne’s Dothraki, among other

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Nevertheless, the impressively rapid expansion of this language in particular makes it stand out from its peers.

Despite its short existence, Klingon has had a fascinating history, ✨starting off as gibberish and then rapidly evolving into a usable means of communication with its own vocabulary, grammar, figures of speech, and even slang and regional dialects, nowadays spoken by people all over the world, in many contexts. 👽

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Perhaps you’ve seen this expression in English before. 🤔
Perhaps you’ve seen each word used individually, but never put together. 😮✨
Or perhaps you’ve never seen any of these words being put to use at all.

En esta nota te explicamos each term individually.
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