Category: Our post-modern crisis
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Forged in Fire, part 2
Certain things about Spanish initially seemed weird to me. It expresses some ideas differently. In English we say, “He is twenty-five years old.” Spanish, on the other hand, expresses that as “Él tiene veintecinco años.” That translates literally as: “He has twenty-five years.” English treats age as a personal characteristic, something you are. Spanish, in…
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Chocolate is the new White
It would be just an amusing story about government bureaucracy—if it weren’t for the dark undertones. It was about a year after I had married my Mexican bride. We were at the immigration office for her permanent residency interview. (She has since become a citizen.) The interview itself had gone smoothly; no, our interviewer really did…