November 29, 2018
The compound tenses, as they are often called because they are two-word tenses as opposed to the one-word conjugated verbs, which are called simple tenses. The […]
December 7, 2018
When Analytic Linguists work in a wire room, authorized to listen to intercepted oral communications (i.e., wire tapped phone calls), they don’t “merely” listen to the […]
December 7, 2018
Michelle Obama’s recent autobiography serves as a welcome point of departure for exploring how translators and interpreters deal with the English verb to become as well […]
December 14, 2018
This Tip for the Week is the first in a two-part series introducing readers to helping verbs in Spanish, more technically known as auxiliary or modal […]
December 14, 2018
In order to tell a good story, a writer has to weave a suspenseful plot. This requires many aspects of the plot, characters and setting and […]
December 22, 2018
The long-standing philosophical questions regarding whether there can be any thought without language have been not solved by neuroscience. Instead, they have been made more interesting […]
December 22, 2018
Some frequently encountered Spanish helping verbs deviate slightly from the simple pattern of verb-plus-infinitive construction you read about in the previous Tip for the Week. This […]
December 29, 2018
Great chefs became great by first eating great food. Of course, there is more involved in becoming a chef than just eating. Great chefs also must […]
December 29, 2018
The verb dejar as a stand-alone verb, means to leave something or someone behind. Thus, it can mean to abandon or to jilt, or to stand […]