Issues of Linguistic… Taste

In the previous entry, we dealt with the connotations that animal names have in different languages. On this occasion, we will take a look at the world of food, at
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Apropos of Linguistic Penetration

In the olden days, the phenomenon of linguistic penetration was closely tied to the exercise of one nation’s power over another. Just to give a sufficiently concrete example, in pre-Columbian
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Mexican Spanish

Spanish is the most spoken language in Mexico: 97% of people use it either as their mother tongue or a second language. However, there are 67 indigenous languages in use
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